Roni Shewan 'This Place We Get To'

I recently finished work on the debut single for Melbourne-based solo artist Roni Shewan. Roni and I have worked extensively on a number of her songs and she chose two very different pieces to launch her solo career.

This Place We Get To is a heart-stirring ballad unlike any I have heard before. The song also boasts the vocal talents of a very special guest: folk-rock troubadour Mijo Biscan.


I didn't really make any structural changes to the original demo but rather built everything up around the basic framework of acoustic guitar and vocals. The intro and verses of the song are in 5/8 which smoothly transitions to a 6/8 chorus . . one of the most important things here I believe was staggering the signature changes so that they didn't fall exactly on the start of the different sections, which would have resulted in a more disjointed feel.

The other major changes from the demos were the introduction of an orchestral arrangement for the third verse (which continues through to the end of the song), a new outro and a much slower tempo for the whole song . .

While the song is meant to be fairly repetitive, the orchestral version of the third verse created a nice contrast in the piece and allowed the second chorus to come in a lot stronger, creating a dynamic the song previously lacked. The second chorus is really the emotional peak of the song and the outro feels to me like an unwinding of the sounds/emotions created in the second chorus . . .

Enjoy!

Written by Roni Shewan
Performed by Roni Shewan, Red Black and Mijo Biscan

Produced by Red Black
Engineered, programmed and mixed by Red Black @ Red Lodge [Melbourne, Australia]
Mastered by Joseph Carra @ Crystal Mastering [Melbourne, Australia]