Colleen Max Fisher
Interview 20 January 2005
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Hey Colleen, thanks for doing
this. How are you
I'm pretty good. It a new year
to focus on new things.
Tell me about Maximum Pleasure,
the concept, what you hoped to achieve and
what you feel about the end
product.
Maximun Pleasure is a project
that was born out of frustration of dealing
with band members and various
producers. I got tired of waiting
for
producers to find time to work
with me, and i was in a band situation that
ended pretty badly. So i was at
a crossroad. At that point i took some time
off and chilled for year. While
clearing my head i started to explore the
production side of things and i
enjoyed it. I then built a tiny project
studio where if would write
scratch idea's and from there i would go intto a
real studio and blow up the
song. I worked with 3 really great
producers
Anthony Robustelli, Peter
Williamson and Aaron Jaffe.
It's funny when i was recording
i just wanted to achieve writing good songs
and to make sure the production was good. I prayed that the
end result
would make me happy and I am.
How long has it been available
and how is it available - from your site?
I've seen it at Dusty Groove.
Anywhere in the UK stocking it?
It been available there for
about a year. No one in the UK is stocking it. I
would love to meet some
contacts though.
You wrote most of the
songs. What do you draw from and
who are you're
influences.
I draw from life experiences,
my friends lives or their drama's. I love
Sade, Beady Belle, George
Michaels, Seal, and D'Influence to name a few.
What reactions are you getting.
The
reactions have been very positive.
What tracks are getting
attention.
On XM radio station The Flow
they played lonely Hearts on Mega Soul in
Charleston SC they played It's
only luv on Kris Verex Subgroundfm in Germany
they Played Comospolitian Queen
and here in the states "Innocent" is
licenses to Shadow Music's
Instinct record compilation New Used and Absurd
and finally on beyondjazz.net
they played All Eyes on me. It's funny i guess
because it is so diverse
everyone has their personal preference.
It's pretty diverse aside from
Soul there's a bit of Reggae, Drum and Bass,
Jazz
Yes i know i'm influence by all
those things. Bob Marley, LTJ, Bukem, Anita
Baker i could go on i listen to
everything i'm a sponge. So when it comes
time to create i guess some of
that comes back out.
Does that kind of fusion work
in the US? The Soul heads over
here probably
wouldn't go for some of that
but it's quite refreshing.
Not really but i am going to
try. The US never went for a lot of things but
eventually some will and do get
through.
My favourites I think are
Lonely Hearts and Maximum Pleasure.
All Eye on me is mine. It's fun
to perform.
Innocent was picked up on a
compilation, did that help.
Somewhat but since i do my own
marketing and press I can't really tell. I
just keep it going every little
bit helps.
You cut it in your own studio I
hear?
No not in my own studio i
worked out of a studio called Shady Bear (Anthony
Robustelli and it was mastered
at B&T Recording with Bill Harris and Aaron
Jaffe did all the production on
Innocent he has his own studio as well.
Tell me about the crew you used
on the album, do you have a regular team.
Not really i got lucky with
Anthony, Peter and Aaron and i love working with
them but i don't really have a
team team in place just yet. I would love to
get one. For right now i am a
lone solja until i get a budget or signed
until them i keep trying to get
my work out anyway i can.
Do you use the same people
live, whats your show like.
I used Anthony and Peter for a
few of my live shows and it is turned out
awesome.People bug me constanly
for more shows but getting a band is hard
but i'm working on it.
Do you do much live work –
Not much these days - back in
the day i use to for other
people.But now i just focus
more on my personal things to do.
Do you
have a good fan base locally?
yeah some what. I'm building it
and i'm sure a bunch of people would love to
come out and support but like i
said it's crazyy i'm doing everything alone
so it's taking some time i'm
working on making it happen.
What are you doing now, still
promoing this one or working on the next
phase? You got plenty more in the can? What's
happening and when can we
expect something.
I'm working on the second
record. You can expect it by September, October
god willing. I'm putting it own
on my own so we'll see.
Do you know anything about the
Uk, you getting any feedback from the UK or
Elsewhere
Chris Well in the UK wrote
about me in Echo's and Just got a write up in
Germany on Soul
http://www.soulsite.de/sonic/review-sonic.shtml?id=151
written by Joerg Michael
Schmitt
SonicSoul
What have you done anything
prior to this, tell me about JeNeCeQua and Raja
Turnstyle..college bands? What
were they like, did you get anything down?
Those were just the starting
bands on the way to the bigger picture. I never
really got anything done with
them.
Tell me about yourself, what do
you like to do, your family.
You're
originally from Jamaica..hence
the reggae vibe I guess? What took
you to
New York?
I'm pretty laid back. I love
create music and hang with my friends. I can be
a bit of a party animal at
times.
What took us to the US. My mom wanting a better life for
herself and us. I
have one sibling my sister
Hayley.
Are you full time in music. If
so what other stuff do you do to make ends
meet. You've done quite a few dance tracks. Which ones stand out. Do you
like doing that kind of thing.
I work for a law firm by day
and i freelance doing music jingles, dance
track you name it. One of my
favorite dance tracks was a song i did years
ago. I did background and ad
libs on a song called love is the message with
this guy named storm for Easy
Street records year ago. LOL i feel old
seriously though i guess
Maximum pleasure is the one that stands out for
now.
What are your ambitions, whats
the master plan
I want to run my own label
eventually and work with other artist and maybe
so some scoring producing
television shows that is the long term goal i have
so much more to learn before i
get to that level but it is my ambition.
Short term goal is to try to
get distribution or someone
interested in this
record to
make it go furhter.
How's Lasonya (Gunther). It was
probably 3 years ago now that we met. Have
you worked together? What's she
up to, haven't heard from her for a while.
I'm not
sure what she is up to but i sure it will be good.
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