When the first part of this season’s The Loft Sessions was released, Los Angeles based producer and former guitar player of Kjwan Jorel Corpus couldn’t wait to tell everyone about it. The season opens with Filipino-Italian singer Mario Jose, backed by a band, a full orchestra, and a choir of music graduates and incredibly talented kids from the Pascale Camerata, a professional level chamber orchestra featuring middle and high school students. They filmed at The Warehaas in downtown Los Angeles, which was a bit of a challenge for Corpus to record as one of the production’s engineers in the unconventional space—setting up at least 40 mics in the area for the 50 musicians in the warehouse. All the hard work the team behind The Loft Sessions truly paid off as the final product of the one day shoot turned into something more of a spectacle, and without a doubt, a benchmark for whatever creator and musical director Evan Chapman has in store for future projects. The Loft Sessions started back at Berklee College of Music in 2012 as a platform to showcase emerging artists. Chapman tells BillboardPH, “The overarching goal from the start of the Loft Sessions project was to create an atmosphere where incredible […]
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