Jari Sillanpää - New album recorded at Abbey Road

I was recently given a chance to participate in the making of finnish singer Jari Sillanpää´s new album, featuring London´s famed Philharmonia Orchestra. The album was recorded in Abbey Road, studio 1, about a week ago. All that remains is overdubbing the vocal parts and mixing the album (basically thinking...).

Now, this is something that I´ve been dreaming about; write for a big orchestra, one of London´s (no, make it the world´s) best, and record it in a studio that every music enthusiast the world over knows.

I wrote three of the arrangements together with Janne Huttunen (we work at the same music production house, Neomusic Ltd.). I was more responsible for the orchestration, while Janne did more of the arranging, although the boundaries blurred a lot in the process.

In the process I also helped to put some finishing touches on a couple of other people´s arrangements. In the next couple of days I wanna share some of the details that went into producing the score and the parts for this project.

Philharmonia Orchestra can be found here:

http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/

Oh, how did it sound? Well...absolutely gorgeous! Beyond my expectations, really. The room sounds beautiful, and the level of the sight-reading these players have is really something.