The Magnificent Companeros

[Chuck]

Figured I might as well plug the first album from my band, The Magnificent Compañeros, which we released a month or so back.

You can check it out on Spotify (link here) and if you really like it purchase on iTunes (link here) whereby I will retire to a country estate where I will build guitars and record songs for the rest of time .

[andrewdosborne]

Just had a listen, great work 'Magnificent Compañeros' !

[Chuck]

Thank you sir! We were always The Compañeros until we went to release the album. Turns out another band of the same name has a couple of tracks on Spotify so we had to go unique. We played around with a bunch of words, until we realised self-promotion might not be such a bad thing, so the "magnificent" it became! Never been good a subtlety.

[wokkaboy]

listening to the first track, sounds great Chuck. What instruments are you playing and is that you singing ?

[Chuck]

listening to the first track, sounds great Chuck. What instruments are you playing and is that you singing ?

Yep, most of the singing is me. At the moment the band is really just two of us recording everything for the release! I play some bass, some guitar and some keys, but my collaborator is the main performer/arranger. I write all the lyrics and come up with the basic chord progressions. We also get friends to play parts and we're putting together the live band at the moment using some of those collaborators and some other compañeros (as in "companions") - first rehearsals this month. Second album is in final stages now - just a few more tweaks before getting it mastered!

[wokkaboy]

good stuff Chuck, are any of the guitars or basses you are playing PBG builds ?

[dave.king1]

Not had a listen yet but well done on getting it out there.

We are 11 tracks in at the moment, being a bunch of rather old farts our work is to leave something other than dusty guitars and words on paper for our kids and grandkids.

Brown Bottle is one of the tracks but I have remixed/remastered since I posted it on the home recording forum.

Who did you use to publish, we are looking at Tunecore

[dave.king1]

Just had a listen, nice work there Compañeros

[Chuck]

Who did you use to publish, we are looking at Tunecore

We used a company called State 51 out of the UK (http://state51.com/) and have been very happy with them. There's a music-related business I'm involved in that needed distribution services so we did our own album as the guinea pig. Needless to say, that business is now using them too.

[dave.king1]

Thanks Chuck I'll check them out