During lockdown, my band, The Sandwich, released our first single. We have around two hours of original music so picking one tune to record was tough, we settled on ‘Dark Orange’ which is a relatively new tune of ours. We thought it was a good demonstration of what music we play, Jazz Fusion, but quite accessible or too out there. The tune has quite a Rock/Groove feel as well, so naturally a good choice? More on that later...
We recorded the audio at the end of last year ourselves, but sent it off to be mixed. After a couple of revisions, we were all ecstatic at the quality of the mix, everything sounded really crisp, clear and full of energy.
We uploaded the track to Spotify and received a decent amount of streams for the band's first release. For those who don’t know, the key to getting new streams is getting on other peoples playlists with a decent amount of followers. We submitted our track to many playlists. Most of them came back with something along the lines of ‘loved the track, but it was too Rock/Jazz for our playlist.’ It was a lesson that we didn’t pick the correct track, we should have picked something more affirmed into one genre to stand a better chance of getting on playlists.
We managed to get some radioplay and get on a few playlist so we had a bit off success, just a lesson learnt for next time.
Please feel free to check out the track!