it's christmas time again...
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Christmas is just around the corner and well-known jazz stalwarts David Gomes & Junji Delfino are all set to send you in the holiday mood with the release of their first-ever Christmas jazz album, aptly entitled, It’s Christmas Time Again.
Produced under their own label, Catalyst Records, this maiden album is a collection of twelve tunes, of which five are their very own original compositions. Click here to preview the album.
The album, priced at RM 35.00, would make a wonderful Christmas present for those who are on the lookout for great gift ideas this year. Buy the album here.
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[ david & junji ]
David Gomes is very much an established name in the KL jazz scene. David is also a gifted composer, arranger & jingle producer.
David also runs his own recording company, Catalyst Studios and is Musical Director for The Instant Café Theatre Company.
A native of the Philippines, Junji started her ”professional” singing career as a child talent singing TV Jingles created by her father for the local advertising market. Born to a family with music coursing through their veins, this diminutive lass possesses a voice that many have described as a gift from the Creator.
In 1987, All That Jazz called her from the shores of the Phillipines for a short stint, this time alongside returning resident, David Gomes, fresh from his Western Australian spin. It was to be a fateful combination as the two decided to make it a lifetime stint and tied the proverbial knot in 1989.
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[ production notes ]
In the middle of October 2004, we set out to produce our first ever album in our, collectively, more than 40 years in the music industry. To say that it was long overdue is the understatement of the century.
Initially conceived and started in October 1998 at our old studio premises in Petaling Jaya, the Christmas album never made it past that year's Thanksgiving due in small part to the fact that we were expecting our fourth child but, even largely, due to our business commitments as a jingle production house.
The studio's main focus then was the advertising market and it was primarily set up to cater specifically to that industry (read : small recording booth with heaps of programming equipment and outboard gear! ) And so after several attempts to record a live trio plus 2 vocalists in between jingle jobs, the idea was shelved indefinitely. Talk of reviving the project became an annual mantra as hopes grew dimmer by the minute.
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