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Folk duo Johnnyswim get fans online to collaborate on songs for upcoming album 'Songs With Strangers'

The history of the music industry, sadly, shows that being a couple in a group together isn't always promoted or even highlighted and Johnnyswim is a rare treat
PUBLISHED JUL 16, 2020
Johnnyswim (Press Handout)
Johnnyswim (Press Handout)

Johnnyswim has adapted to the coronavirus social distancing limitations with an intuitive new idea for music production. The new project is a major part of their upcoming album, 'Songs With Strangers'. The LP will release on Friday, July 17, while the band will have a concert over Instagram Live the same day to celebrate. In the past 10 weeks during quarantine, Johnnyswim has been selecting a different fan at random every week over Instagram Live for an all-new fan-collaborative production process.

How it all works is the selected fan (whom they have never met before) will be asked to join in the writing/recording session with the fan's real-time input to create a brand new song, which will then be released the following day. After the writing, the recording will begin and additional musicians will add elements to the song. The Grammy-winning producer Malay will then produce elements and handle the mixing of the track while, simultaneously, visual artist Joshua Noom will create artwork for the track via his IG Live account. After wrapping up the entire process, the song will be released on SoundCloud the next day. 

Songs such as 'Wait', 'A Little Bit Sorry' and 'Still Wonderful' have been uploaded so far. Johnnyswim spoke of their new-found production concept and creativity in a press release statement. "SongsWithStrangers has been the single most exciting project we've ever made."

"Also I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud of a creative work we’ve done. All these songs written and recorded in a day, written with strangers chosen at random on IG LIVE and the entire process streamed live," they continued, before adding, "It’s out everywhere this Friday and we’re planning to celebrate SWS style that night!" Johnnyswim is an American folk, soul, blues, pop duo, consisting of singer-songwriters Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez.

Amanda is the daughter of the "Queen of Disco," Donna Summer and her Johnnyswim music partner is also her husband. In seeing such a combined effort with fans, it is also very refreshing and inspiring to witness a married couple boldly working together in a band. The history of the music industry, sadly, shows that being a couple in a group together isn't always promoted or even highlighted and Johnnyswim is a rare treat. Abner and Amanda, we love what you're doing and wish you all the best for both your musical and personal partnership.

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