From: sounni.ali@gmail.com   
      
   As part of a two- year project, singer/songwriter - Roger D’Arcy is creating   
   his third collection of original music - following the critically acclaimed   
   Crooked Tales (2016) and House of Heads (2017)   
      
   Uniquely, D’Arcy is recording this third collection in different studios   
   around the world – all studios which he has designed including projects by   
   the world-renowned Recording Architecture – the company that D’Arcy   
   founded in 1987 and which was    
   closed in 2012 upon publication of the best-selling RA: The Book so that   
   D’Arcy could devote more time to his first love - creating music - something   
   he had put on the back burner while running Recording Architecture.   
      
   RA specialized in creating wonderfully unique creative spaces for artists that   
   include: Annie Lennox, UB40, The Cure, The Waterboys, The Kinks, Sade, Bryan   
   Ferry, Ian Anderson, Steve Hackett and hundreds of other clients all over the   
   world. D’Arcy    
   continues to design a handful of studios each year for past clients.   
      
   The new collection is being released as a track a month and currently has the   
   working title of The World Recording Tour.   
      
   Each track stands proud and alone due to the fact that the songs in the   
   collection are being produced, recorded and mixed using local musicians and   
   engineers in each country. Thus, each track has a unique musical perspective   
   with local flavors and    
   musical styles reflected in the songs - all written by Roger D'Arcy and   
   published by his longstanding Longsongs Music company.   
      
   Ultimately, the recordings will be revisited and compiled into an album   
   collection by the project’s executive producer, Pieter Snapper (who also   
   produced, mixed and mastered Crooked Tales and House of Heads) at Babajim   
   Studios in Istanbul which D’   
   Arcy designed in 2009.   
      
   The first track to be released on July 4th 2019 then, is “Velvet Ghosts”   
   which D'Arcy recorded at Jaffa Sound in Tel Aviv, Israel - as he pays tribute   
   to Nico, Lou Reed and John Cale of The Velvet Underground - D'Arcy is a huge   
   fan of Nico’s work    
   in particular and sings of a chance encounter in a Sheffield bar in England in   
   the early 80s.   
      
   Roger D’Arcy quotes: "I bumped into Nico in the bar after seeing her perform   
   one evening and it was surreal! There in front of me was one of the most   
   iconic figures of my life and I sort of spluttered that I’d love to buy her   
   a drink. I can still    
   remember the way she called me “Dahling” as she sipped her G+T while I   
   just stood there like some love-struck teenager hanging on every word!”   
      
   Meanwhile co-owner/founder of Jaffa Sound and producer, recording and mix   
   engineer for Velvet Ghosts - Liron Schaffer – quotes:   
      
   “The first time I heard Velvet Ghosts, I immediately saw the entire story in   
   my mind. Roger’s incredible way of describing the human condition, plus the   
   subjects being among my personal heroes and the fact that it’s not every day   
   that I have the    
   opportunity to record a song dealing with people that I may not have known   
   personally, but I feel that I know pretty well - it was an amazing experience.   
      
   From that point on we decided to record Roger in our Live Room, which has an   
   arched ceiling (which used to be an old bathing space with 600 hundred years   
   of history) Of course, it now has been acoustically treated but there are   
   times when you can still    
   sense ghostly echoes. One of my priorities as the producer was making Roger as   
   comfortable as possible and ensuring that his performance was as natural and   
   as intuitive as I heard him performing the song in front of me in the control   
   room just a few    
   minutes earlier.   
      
   The result was perfect with Roger giving a winning performance and just then   
   my friend and co-studio owner Amit Sagie happened to walk into the studio and   
   being a fantastic guitar and bass player, seemed to understand the song   
   instantly and added his own personal, magical touch, laying down some electric   
   guitar tracks which I    
   felt conveyed exactly the feeling that Roger was after - a kind of bittersweet   
   longing for a time long past.   
      
   All in all, it was very exciting to record Roger in the studio that he himself   
   designed - kind of like a magical closure. A real pleasure and privilege.”   
      
   Liron Schaffer - Jaffa Sounds Arts, Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel   
   Producer, recording and mix engineer for Velvet Ghosts   
      
   Other countries visited during the "World Recording Tour" project so far   
   include Ireland, Greece, India and Ukraine – while plans are in progress to   
   record in the USA, the UK, Russia, Spain and eventually winding up in Turkey.   
      
   Meanwhile, watch out for news of Roger D'Arcy's "Virtual World Tour" as he   
   hosts a series of internet live concerts broadcast from some of the hosting   
   studios and countries - again - using local musicians to recreate the tracks   
   and, of course, bring a    
   different flavor from each of the concerts producing a totally unique   
   experience for the audience.   
      
   To access Velvet Ghosts go to:   
   https://longsongsmusic.com/album/1119164/velvet-ghosts   
      
   For more on Roger D'Arcy and his music please visit:   
   WWW.LongSongsmusic.com   
      
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