07/02/2021 08:29:30 AM
Author's Note: Dominic Chin has reimaged one of his works, the emotional cls2u, in a stripped-down version.
The Singaporean singer-songwriter has officially unveiled the new edition of this track through Umami Records, and it featured no less than the Singaporean singer-songwriter Jean Seizure.
Read more of this story in the press release below:
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Dominic Chin
has finally dropped the stripped-down version of his emotional pop
ballad “clse2u.”
Released under Umami Records, the reimagined material features a duet
with Singaporean singer-songwriter Jean Seizure, whose captivating
vocals add a layer of dreaminess to the track.
About “clse2u (reimagined)”
“Jean was a longtime friend, and we
always wanted to collaborate but there was never a chance,” says
Dominic Chin. “When the idea for the album popped up, it was only
natural for me to want to work with Jean on this very special song.”
Incorporated with lush orchestral
arrangement and dramatic flourishes, “clse2u (reimagined)” offers
some truly transcendent moments that you would rarely encounter in
modern pop—an extraordinary gift, to be exact.
Dominic Chin and Jean Seizure’s
collaboration also comes with an official music video, which Jean
filmed herself. Because of social distancing measures, the video
shoot team had to downsize in terms of numbers, and think out of the
box to achieve maximum results with maximum limitations.
Re-Licensed To Cry: A stripped-down
reimagining
“clse2u (reimagined)” will be part
of Dominic Chin’s Re-Licensed To Cry—an online release featuring
stripped-down versions of the same set of songs from Dominic Chin’s
debut EP. Focusing more on the basic essentials of the tracks, the
re-released version is redone entirely from the music arrangement to
the vocal recordings, to capture Dominic Chin’s organic,
singer-songwriter side.
“The whole album is entirely recorded
with live acoustic instruments with as little ‘vocal effects’ as
possible,” Chin explains. “This EP is recorded entirely with only
two vocal tracks - one mine, and the other: the featured artists. The
arrangement is also recorded live - live drums, live strings, live
guitar. Not all at once of course because of social distancing and
also budgeting (because it’s expensive to get everybody in one room
to record), but recorded separately.”
All the songs are recorded as a duet
with Dominic Chin and other Singapore-based singer-songwriters and
musicians. “Every singer on board has had some form of connection
to the song itself and it was why they were invited to be part of the
song,” Chin shares in a statement.
The lineup consists of Jean Seizure,
Jason Yu, Marian Carmel, Haneri, Gail Belmonte, Sherman Zhuo and Eli
Ordonez from Count Vernon.
Some of the standouts in the album
include a dramatic version of “cry” and “here (reimagined).”
The latter features Gai Belmonte on an emotional and cathartic ballad
that deals with familial loss. Chin shares, “Gail Belmonte and I
have a shared experience of losing our grandmothers at about the same
time. Being very close to her grandmother, she was telling me that it
was an exceptionally hard time to get over her death.”
Dominic’s Upcoming
Releases
Re-License To Cry EP
1. clse2u (reimagined) (with Jean
Seizure) - 25th June
2. here (reimagined) (with Gail
Belmonte) - 23rd July
3. aware (reimagined) (with Marian
Carmel) - 27th Aug
4. better (reimagined) (with Sherman
Zhuo) - 24th Sep
5. alone (reimagined) (with Jason Yu) -
22nd Oct
6. shy (reimagined) (with Eli Ordonez
from Count Vernon) - 26 Nov
7. cry (reimagined) (with Haneri) -
24th Dec
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