Message from Bonnie Hayes, chair of the Songwriting Department:
One of the most important elements of the music industry is collaboration—working with other musicians, writers, and producers to create a whole that’s bigger than the sum of its parts. Songwriting as a department emphasizes this critical function, and what better way to exemplify it for students than by collaborating with another department. The Professional Music Department is the perfect collaboration partner for the Songwriting Department. Our students are similarly motivated and mostly freelance creatives who write, produce, and perform their own music. The rebranded Berklee Revelation Records presented a perfect opportunity for the two departments to employ that spirit of teamwork, from the inception to finished product. The resulting record is a melting pot of the two majors and a microcosm of Berklee’s creative community.
Message from Sean P. Hagon, chair of the Professional Music Department:
In this debut Berklee Revelation Records release of UNION, we are excited to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the Songwriting Department and have the two departments work in unison to produce a record that fosters a more accurate representation of the musical diversity of our students in the Professional Music major and the greater Berklee community. This record and those that will follow will become a musical melting pot free of genre-specific and stylistic boundaries—a way of life we experience in our daily lives at Berklee, and in our collaborations. Through this collaborative effort with the Songwriting Department, and with a unified creative imaginative spirit, this release of UNION demonstrates the result of a perfect partnership.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Berklee Revelation Records (BRR) is a student-run, artist-driven label created to present the top artists from Berklee College of Music. BRR, formerly known as Jazz Revelation Records, was founded by former Berklee student, Paul Im, and UNION is the label’s fifteenth album.
Student Engineer
Alejandro Zuloaga
Producer and Faculty Advisor
Jes Perry
Professional Music Department Chair
Sean P. Hagon
Professional Music Department Coordinator
Erin Raber
Mix One Staff and Interns
Adam Weiss, Kevin Arrahman, Jedy Xu, Fang Fang
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by (unless otherwise noted):
Adam Weiss
Mix One Studios in Boston, Massachusetts
Mixonestudios.com
ARTISTIC ADVISORS
BRR offers a special thank you to artistic advisors: Bonnie Hayes, chair of the Songwriting Department; Sean P. Hagon, chair of the Professional Music Department; Jes Perry, Assistant Professor, Professional Music Department; and Susan Cattaneo, Associate Professor, Songwriting Department.
THANK YOU
Berklee Revelation Records (BRR) would like to thank: Roger H. Brown, Larry Simpson, Darla Hanley, Kate Lovell, Amer Koudsi, Erin Raber, and Berklee’s Digital Strategy and Communications department.
berkleerevelationrecords.com
revelationrecords@berklee.edu
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