Band of Sisters - Issues
Issues, the debut album from Band Of Sisters, comprises sixteen new, painstakingly-crafted songs, by fifteen brilliant singers, with the songs by women, about women, for women - but very much intending to appeal to men also.
Band Of Sisters is a group of female solo artistes of all ages; some who have sold millions of records and those who will go on
to sell millions of records; all singers with fans and supporters. Many already are well known for their voices and songs in films and on TV. Many have had hit records.
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The project was co-written and produced by the hugely respected British songwriter, composer, producer and musician David
Mindel, whose work includes more than 150 song cuts, 4,000 commercials, fifty television themes and numerous film scores.
Mindel said, "Most of my favourite singers are female, so I called some of the wonderful singers I knew when I lived and
worked in London, plus some I had admired and a few talented newcomers, and invited them to contribute to this album - and
they all agreed. I suggested they pick a subject close to their hearts, and they did. And so Issues? was born."
The subject matter covers friendship (Mim Grey), growing older (Miriam Stockley), addiction (Stevie Lange), fragility
(Alissa Moreno), loss (Leigh Matty), gratitude (PP Arnold), looks (Tessa Niles), religion (Alissa Moreno), loneliness (Mandy Bell), strength (Jacqi Michaels), bullying (Bridie Rose), children (Monica Ward), looking for Mr Right? (Lynda Hayes), depression (Alison Joy Williams), domestic abuse (Kim Alvord) and women?s rights (Angela Kaset).
The recording process for the album would have been impossible just a few years ago. Once the songs had been written in
Provence, Nashville, London, Manchester, Kettering, Bury, Surrey, Los Angles, Nashville, Orlando, Stuttgart and Andalucía, the co-writing was completed via Facebook, magicJack and Skpe.
Following Mindel's track and guide vocal, the artists
recorded their vocals at their home studios or a local commercial studio. They then sent their parts back to Mindel via file transfers, where he'd add the files to his tracks and mix the songs in his studio in St Michel d'Euzet, in the South of France.
"Issues took ten months to record with fifteen wonderful singers performing sixteen songs with thirty-six brilliant musicians, all of whom I was friends with on Facebook," Mindel explains.
"Even if I'd never worked with them previously, I just picked
the best. And thanks to the magic of file sharing, all through the recording, I never left home."
Amongst the legendary 'sisters' such as Tessa Niles and PP Arnold, the album also provides a big break for newcomer Bridie
Rose, the album's only non-professional.
David Mindel held an extensive search to find a young girl who sounded vulnerable enough to sing the song about bullying, 'When They Don't Make Me Cry'; Bridie is only fourteen and the youngest of three children, born in Westminster, London, in 1999, and thrilled to have been chosen as one of the Sisters, and to be part of this album.
The official launch for Issues will took place at The BBC Club, Great Portland Street, London, on Wednesday, October 9th,
where, backed by an all-star band, songs from the album were performed by several of the sisters?, including PP Arnold, Mim
Grey, Leigh Matty, Kim Alvord & Mandy Bell.