RECORDING WITH TIMUR SECKIN

On Wednesday, 1/25/2012, I recorded pianist Timur Seckin performing Beethoven's Sonata 17 Op.31 No.2, and Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.2.

DON'T MISS ADAM SHENK AT LAURIE BEECHAM THEATRE!!

Young Pals Music artist singer/songwriter Adam Shenk is back in New York City with his new show tomorrow at Laurie Beecham Theatre. Come and experience his brand of Neo-Pop: a blend of pop, R&B, jazz and soul designed to stimulate your senses and engage emotions.

Adam says:

"NYC,

I miss you so much already - AND I'm returning to NYC for one night only & need you to be there!!
Join me on Saturday, Jan. 7th @ The Laurie Beechman Theatre in midtown!
Show starts at 7pm, so get there nice and early to get a seat and enjoy the show. Doors open at 6:30.
I will be reunited with my band & background singers for a mix of new and old original music. It's gonna be so much fun - so come groove with me!!



Tickets will be $15 at the door, or ONLY $7.50 on Goldstar: http://www.goldstar.com/events/new-york-city-ny/pop-singer-songwriter-adam-shenk
Laurie Beechman has a $15 food/drink minimum.

See you there!! Enjoy your holidays!"

PROMIS' NEW MUSIC VIDEO: "Lovesick"

Jose Promis is a Chilean-born singer/songwriter who resembles and is inspired by the troubadours of the old world, while staying firmly rooted in the 21st century. He began in the cabarets and independent theaters of Los Angeles in the mid 00s and has gone on to play throughout Europe.



"Lovesick" from the Promis album "Love Stories." Written by Jose Promis and Ayhan Sahin, video shot and edited by Sissy Debut. Shot at Los Angeles County Museum Of Art (LACMA), as well as the Other Side cabaret in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The original version of "Lovesick," featuring the siren-esque vocals of Karine Hannah, appears on the Promis album "Life is Grand!" This piano ballad version, as well as an electro-R&B remix by Ian Matthews, appear on the album "Love Stories." Enjoy!



"Lovesick" by PROMIS by Young Pals Music

Karine Hannah Sings "NEW YEAR'S EVE AT HOME"

Karine Hannah sings “New Years At Home,” an uptempo frolic that lyrically concludes that despite all glamorous invitations, there’s no better way to turn the annual page than snuggling with that special someone. Here’s a song and an artist that will brighten the holidays from this year forward. From the collection "Breaking For The Holidays" released by Breaking Records in 2007.

"New Year's Eve at Home" by Karine Hannah by Young Pals Music

Written by Bernadette O'Reilly, Chuck Taylor and Ayhan Sahin.

JANEEN PUENTE VISITING 2C STUDIOS

Janeen Puente was at 2C Studios on Tuesday, 12/27/2011 meeting with Ayhan Sahin. Puente and Sahin have started working on new songs for a future project together. Stay tuned!

Janeen Puente was born into a family of performers, and is the granddaughter of the late legendary music icon Tito Puente.  She attributes her distinctive singing voice to growing up in a Puerto Rican/American household where her influences ranged from Mariah Carey to Celia Cruz.  Raised just outside of New York City, Janeen honed her performance in NYC nightclubs performing her brand of NY style dance music with Latin rhythms and influences.  She has also had the great privilege of performing on stage with her grandfather on many occasions, in addition to her unique experience of growing up around and closely studying such great singers such as Celia Cruz and La India perform with her grandfather. 

"Mi Camino" (My Path) was released  June 2010, and marks Janeen's first full length CD with her Orchestra.  The CD is executive produced by Eddie Del Rios, produced and mastered by Hector M. Rivera,and includes many guest artists including Artie Webb on flute, Sami Cultura, and much more!

Sandra Bernhard sings "Miracle of Lights" featuring Sussan Deyhim

Bernhard is certainly best known for her colorful comic and theatrical performances, but here she culls a worldwide call for peace in the calming, tribal “Miracle of Lights,” featuring Sussan Deyhim, a composer, vocalist and performance artist who has long been at the forefront of the ancient mysticism of Middle Eastern music.

Produced by Ayhan Sahin and Mitch Kaplan, this song was part of the holiday compilation album "Breaking For The Holidays" released by Breaking Records in 2007.

Boarding the sleigh ride for Breaking Records’ first such collection are such timeless veterans as Chaka Khan and venerable comedienne Sandra Bernhard, alongside two favorites from the nation’s unstoppable top-rated TV series, “American Idol” and its rock n’roll sister “Rockstar Supernova,” as well as a handful of acts that may be less familiar—but as you will soon see, merit equal esteem.

 

Sandra Bernhard with Ayhan Sahin and Karine Hannah

 

Sussan Deyhim

"Miracle Of Lights" by Sandra Bernhard featuring Sussan Deyhim by Young Pals Music

"California Christmas" by Jon Peter Lewis

American Idol favorite Jon Peter Lewis, a top 10 finalist in season three, swipes at the winter chill in “California Christmas,” which conjures Beach Boys meets Phil Spector. The harmony-packed track is an original composition by Sky Elobar, commandeered by producer Ayhan Sahin. Released in 2007 by Breaking Records.

"California Christmas" by Jon Peter Lewis by Young Pals Music

"It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas Without You"

Happy holidays are assured with “Breaking for the Holidays,” a collection of Christmas songs released by Breaking Records.

The many million fans of American Idol will find particular delight in Vonzell Solomon, who percolates with signature warmth on “It’s Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas”—a song that sounds instantly familiar but is best known outside the U.S. as a hit in 1975 by Irish singer Dana. Vonzell recorded the track in 2007 with producer Ayhan Sahin.

"It's Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas" by VONZELL SOLOMON by Young Pals Music

"Swedish Style": Transported Back To the 80s

Monday was like a wondrous flashback to the early 1980s, as we shot the music video for the upcoming Young Pals Music release; full length theatrical rock musical “Swedish Style,” based on the break-up of music group Opus 10, a quartet in the spirit of ABBA.

15+ actors, musicians and crew members joined us at an off-Broadway theatre in the heart of Times Square to film a promotional video for the production—complete with period costumes.

“Swedish Style: The Musical” is inspired by the captivating tale of the break-up of Swedish super group ABBA—a lesser-known but all-important chapter in the quartet’s fabled history.  The show is written by Ayhan Sahin and Selcen Pamuk Phelps. The dramatized theatrical production is set in the early 1980s and rapt with love, loss, friendship, heartbreak and the penance of ultimate artistic immortality.

The video vignette filmed on December 12 by Christopher Holmes will provide a compelling sketch of the new production and its soundtrack recording, detailing elements of the script, choreography, set and costumes. 

Young Pals Music will release  the 14-song double-disc cast soundtrack for “Swedish Style" in January 2012.

NEW SINGLE RELEASE FROM YOUNG PALS MUSIC

"Another + Another" tells a current classic unrequited love story in which boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy fears commitment and bolts, girl lures him back, but boy is shown the door, nevertheless. Girl knows there’s always another and another outside her door.

Romantic pop, "Another + Another" celebrates honesty and self-empowerment. Romantic pop, "Another + Another" is enjoyed by Next Generation and Oldies who appreciate highest quality music and storylines crafted by Young Pals Records and G.G. Garth Music Publishing.

Vocals by up and coming pop singer “Oh-Kay!”. Music by Ayhan Sahin, lyrics by Ghia Gabriela Szwed. Produced by Young Pals Records (BMI) of NY, NY in collaboration with G.G. Garth Productions (ASCAP) of Boston, Mass.

“Another + Another”

Music: Ayhan Sahin Lyrics: Ghia Gabriela Szwed
Singer: Oh-Kay!
Album Art: RecycledPaperPrinting.com
Photography: Luiz Arduini
Model: Alden Truesdale
Copyright 2011 by Young Pals Music, BMI; G.G. Garth Music Publishing, ASCAP

Produced by Ayhan Sahin
Guitars: Gene Blank
Bass: Christian Imboden
Drum Programming and Keyboards: Ayhan Sahin

youngpalsrecords.com gggarthproductions.com

"Another + Another" by OH-KAY! by Young Pals Music

LYRICS:
So, you’re afraid to love me?
Because you lose control!
Coward, turn and face me!
It’s my heart you stole
Now you’re afraid to touch me?
I might eclipse your goals?
Forget your independence!
We were on a roll!
We started out divine
We lasted way past dawn
You make me have another and another and another
…je’t’adore
I require
Your desire
Saddle me up for more
You make me want another and another and another
Je’t’adore
You’re scared as hell to love me?
Because you think I bite!
Darling, come embrace me!
heartache feels so right!
You act like I’m the villain!
You’re so damned uptight!
Do you fear my vengeance?
you’re afraid of heights?
We started out Divine
We lasted way past dawn
You make me have another and another and another
Je’t’adore
I require
All your fire
Started out on the floor
You make me want another and another and another
Don’t shut that door!
I only wanted to set you free!
Your body’s hotter now melting me!
We’re starting out this time
You think you’ll last until dawn
You made me want another and another and another
…but find the door
You’re on fire
But you’re a liar
Here there ain’t nothin’ more
‘Cause babe there is another and another and another
outside my door.

MOST LIKELY TO - The Senior Superlative Musical

Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording

Released on October 18th

on iTunes, Amazon.com and all other digital stores

A New “Generation Glee” Musical Hailed by Newsday as “Most Likely To Be a Hit.”

(New York – October 17, 2011) – On October 18 2011, BroadwayClubhouse.com and Young Pals Music will release the original Off-Broadway cast recording of Most Likely To: The Senior Superlative Musical, a new album featuring cast members from the Dramatist Guild Workshop and award-winning Midtown International Theatre Festival production. Performers on the album include Amanda Castaños, (B’way: Spring Awakening), Melissa Rapelje (Off B'way: The Awesome 80s Prom), Lyle Colby Mackston (Papermill: 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee,) Andrew J. Beck, Gina Marie Bilardi, Christopher Hlinka, Alexander Greif, Katie Hoffmann, Steven Liberto, Lauren Renner, Sarah Sixt, Matthew Walsh, Jesse Zeidman.

Most Likely To (which sold out its entire MITF run on Theatre Row before opening night) features the sereo-comic musings of such high school senior celebrities as Class Clown, Best Dressed andMost Dramatic, as they stage a ceremony to celebrate the fabled best years of their lives in monologue, song and dance. It’s The Gleeks vs. The Goths, The Drama Queens vs. The Jocks, in a Senior Superlative Showdown to Best All Around! The cast album will feature 12 fan favorite tracks including “All Hail the Drama Queens,” “Emo Spelled Backwards (is Oh Me),” and “Push Comes to Shove.”

About the album, writer and composer Michael Tester stated, “I am thrilled to have the original cast reprise their vocals on the album and to welcome guest musicians who have backed the likes of Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Steven Tyler."

In addition to the album release, Dramatic Publishing Company (dramaticpublishing.com) will be licensing Most Likely To for all professional and amateur theatrical markets in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The acting edition of the script will be available at The Drama Book Shop, DramaticPublishing.com and other script sources in October. A CD version of the album with a full-color booklet will be available for purchase in December.

Author/Composer Michael Tester is the creator of The Pirate Musical! (Baker's Plays/Samuel French), The Mummy Musical (Dramatic Publishing), Hollywood Exposed! (Actors Playhouse, Miami), Amoebas on Parade!! (King's Head Theatre, London), and The Divalogues (Duplex Cabaret Theatre, NYC). He served as co-author of Ken Davenport's long running Off-Broadway (show, The Awesome '80s Prom (winner: National Interactive Show of the Year), as well as for The National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Body & Soul gala at Manhattan's Baryshnikov Center. Upcoming projects include Musicals in the Making-a showcase for theatre composers and lyricists, and the blog, The Drama Police. A proud member of The Dramatists Guild, Michael is a Rodgers & Hammerstein scholarship winner, and student of Second City's famed writing track (Hollywood).

Young Pals Music is a full-service independent record label owned and operated by NYU Tisch Master’s graduate Ayhan Sahin. His recent work includes recordings for Olivia Newton-John, Melba Moore, Phoebe Snow, Turkish superstar Sezen Aksu, Sandra Bernhard and a half-dozen “American Idol” finalists. Records released by the label have been featured on Billboard, MTV, VH1 .

The Most Likely To album was produced and arranged by Ayhan Sahin, Young Pals Music. Musicians: Keyboard: Elliot Weiss, Classical Guitar: Rafael Cintron; Violin: Elyssa Samsel; Electric Guitar: Dennis DelGaudio; Bass Guitar: Brian Holtz.

To download the album, please click here

For licensing and script information, visit www.DramaticPublishing.com

RECORDING WITH KING JAMES

King James recorded two new tracks on Friday, 11/11/11 at the 2C Studios for his new movie project.