Music Industry News
Long Beach band awakes to call in music
Monday, 17, May 2010
The result of jamming together for years is about to be seen (and heard) for cousins Marley and Sean Rosner of the Long Beach-based band, The Waking Call.Marley, 23, an American studies graduate student at Cal State Fullerton, and Sean, 24, have had a passion for music since childhood and have played together for about eight years. Recently, their jam sessions became more serious and so they formed The Waking Call, and will release a six-song EP this summer.
We’ve finished most of the recording and are excited to be getting an amazing sound engineer to mix our songs,” Marley said.Doug Decker, The Waking Call’s sound engineer, has worked with The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Johnny Cash. Marley, The Waking Call’s guitarist who also played bass and keyboard on the EP, and Sean, guitarist and vocalist, recorded in Marley’s bedroom for years, but are now mixing and mastering their EP with Decker in a Costa Mesa studio.