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Henry Beguiristain & Jen de la Osa are the main songwriters in the Boston rock band Aloud.  They released their fourth album “It’s Got To Be Now” in April 2014.  In this interview we get the details on how they wrote, rehearsed, and recorded the material for the new album, which was tracked mostly live.  The discussion centers around their song “Such a Long Time” but we get into much more – stories behind many of the new tracks, thoughts on songwriting, inspiration of Motown, R&B, and 60′s rock on their newest material, and we hear never-before-released demos throughout.

For more from Henry, Jen, and Aloud, check them out here:

http://allthingsaloud.com/
http://www.facebook.com/aloudonline
http://twitter.com/aloudonline

Matt
Demo Mirror

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A few weeks ago, I went over to Charles’ place and we talked for a while about this song – Slowfinger by Kenneth Noisewater, which is actually Charles on vocals, Eddie DuQuesne on guitar, Steve Foster on drums. We discussed how this song was written for a school project, the grade it received, Charles’ unique, but sometimes correlated roles as studio engineer and musician, and how that effects the music he’s involved with. Charles engineered a project for my band old Lights, which will finally be released in early 2010, so we briefly talk about that as well.

After the interview, Charles shared a piece of 5-layer chocolate cake with me that he received in the mail. It was really good.

Matt
Demo Mirror