October 13, 2024 • 22 mins
We’re proud to share a handful of recent interviews from our guests. The Grind is dedicated to exceptional conversation, and will always go above and beyond to make sure you have a platform to tell your story. If you’ve had experience you want to share with with us, please get in touch - we’d love to hear it. This is a throwback interview from 2015 when Noel Gourdin graciously provided an interview when I was getting started as Preface Media back then. This interview holds a great memory for me and thank you.
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Host: DJ Retro
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Guest:
Singer: Noel Gourdin , (Song Credit: "The River")
Booking: https://www.delafont.com/music_acts/n...
YouTube: • Noel Gourdin - The River (Official Vi...
Song available on Spotify and other platforms
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Once again, how are you doing, my loyal followers and
listeners of the Grind podcast. This is your host, DJ
Retro No, I would not steer you wrong, So you
know I had to introduce you to a new artist
out of North Carolina, south Side, Miko. Make sure you
listen to his tracks on any streaming platform that is
(00:22):
your favorite, and once again head over to the grind
dot online to listen to his podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Like Bacon, I do a foul blakeant.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Just you hang it because I promise my mama I'd
make it.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's like a racing Here we are another episode of
the Grind. Thanks for joining us again. I'm your host,
James Perrier. This podcast is going to take us on
the trip.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Trips and places and moments in my life where I
discovered hip hop, new artists and new sound.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You all ready to go, Let's hit.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It life my life. I got you fail, We'll chuck
you so this Perrer press play.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The Grind starts the rhyme stars. We come together like
car parts to make you move jobs of life. Don't
help you out on this little bit bruise the purpose
to enlighten you with all we do. Laws exposure interfe
s help can get your poster to post. So we
post to help each other out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Go down fit for this closure. Get tuned into the
grind this time we take it over with this life
on your line.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
We know we are being blessed with a singer songwriter
spend some time on the East Coast, made its way
down in Mississippi. He's gonna be here to tell you
the whole story about this. But I'd just like to
thank Brandon Brandon Adams over there the Miracle Marketing for
setting this interview up for us tonight. I mean, he's
a very busy individual, but tonight he has taken time
(02:01):
out of his schedule to talk to all of us. So,
without further ado, I like to introduce singer songwriter Noel Gordine.
How you doing this seasoning?
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Doing pretty good? Pretty good? I appreciate you for having
me on.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Hey, that's not a problem, man, it's it's it's a
it's actually a pleasure to have me on the show
because I love music, man, that's one thing that that
I like to listen to, and you've got some very
vibrant cuts on your CDs. Man, you just really speaks
to me. You got that so soul full sound that
(02:36):
I enjoyed listening to.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Well, I know you listened to a lot of music,
so you know, I take it as a huge compliment
coming from you, brother, I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Now. I don't want to put you a designer, because
I want you to tell us what designers you'd like
to be in. But the artist that I like listening
to have that have that sound that you have, I
want you to I we're gonna talk about you tonight.
We ain't gonna talk about that. But it's it's just
very soulfil. Man. It just reminds me of when I
was growing up when music is playing around the house,
(03:08):
or you clean it up with your grandmother's you know,
putting on a record something that everybody listen to. I
guess that's the thing I'm getting at. It's just something
that a whole family can listen to, that can cross
platforms across generations, and if your music is gonna beat
around for a.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Long time, well that's that's what I hope will happen.
You know. It's it's you ask what I call my
music and what I call my style. I like to
call it sol and be you know, because I think
the rhythm is given. So you know, I like to
call it soul and blue. So that's pretty much where
I'm at. And you know, soul is hard, very hard
(03:46):
to you know, categorize or even define. But the thing is,
to me, when soul is missing, it's easy to tell.
So you know, I just try to put I just
try to make music that that feels good to me,
because first and foremost, gotta be honest with the with
the artists within, you know, and what I have on
my heart and soul to make. And just like you
(04:08):
just said, you know, back in the day when when
you were cleaning up the house and the music that
you would play, and those are the artists that I
grew up on and grew up loving, you know, hanging
out with Pops all the time because he was playing
Uh you know, I had to face it early on
hanging out with Pops because he wasn't gonna play no
no hip hop music or you know, none of that
Hugh Jack slang or nothing like that. It was gonna
(04:28):
be the old school, uh, you know, the oldie book goodies,
which he called them, the Sam Cooks, Marvin Gaye, Solomon
Burke's the Brooke Benton's Tyrone Davis and Johnny Taylor, and
you know, it was it was all of that music
that I grew up loving, and it was that that
soul music that really struck chords in my heart. And
(04:49):
I had love for music from back then, and I knew,
you know, when it came time when I was able
to make my own music, I wanted to have that
authentic feel that they had with the live instrumentation and
just the heartwarming harmonies and melodies and all of that
kind of stuff. So I just knew that I wanted
to make some music that could really touch people. And
(05:10):
like you said, you know, it spans across age groups
that the you know, all of that disappears when you
talk about good music. And I call it retro irrelevant,
you know, because it's got the old field, but it's
still relevant in today's times and people can still you know,
relate to it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You know, I understand that. Now for the listeners that
don't know Noel, can you let us know where you're
from and how the music it started for you? I mean,
where did it all start from?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Well, I came from Brockton, Massachusetts. It's about it's a
suburb of Boston. It's about twenty five miles south of Boston,
and you know, it's a city non for fighters. I
mean Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, you know both, and
so we're known for getting knocked down, but we don't
(06:03):
stay down too long. We put ourselves up and get
back into the fight. So that's where I was from,
a city, you know, fast paced city life. But the
love for the music really came from, like I said,
hanging out with pops, taking trips down south because my family,
my parents are from Mississippi, so every summer we're you know,
convoys of six to eight cars heading down the highway
(06:27):
down South for a family reunion or family gathering or
get together, you know. So it was that soul music
that really became synonymous down in the South, because let's
face it, most of the artists that made the soul
music back in the day was from the South. And
you know, it seems to be true nowadays as well.
So you know, the South pretty much became synonymous and
whatever soul music I grew up on, it seemed like
(06:48):
it was right at home in the South, you know. So,
but me growing up in the city as well. It
was it was always that that thing that I hung
out with my brother and he had a love for
the hip hop and you know that the break dance
music and the club music and the New Jack swing
and all of that kind of stuff. So I pretty
much fused all of that together and came up with
(07:09):
the style that people know as the artist Noel Gordin.
So that's pretty much where I'm from and getting my start.
It was just I really jumped in real hard and
in about two thousand and making music and getting on
the road and met up with some fellas back home
and started just putting together a catalog of music. When
we started taking off to New York and you know,
(07:31):
doing whatever we could do this ground and scrape some
money together to get rental cars, and we were sleeping
in cars to just try to get opportunities to meet
up with people that you know, could get in with
people that can say this to somebody to try to
get an opportunity. And you know, in two thousand and
five it finally happened a sony with with Chad Elliott
and KP and you know, Donnieanare and Michelle Anthony and
(07:55):
everybody over there at Sony at Columbia, so it kind
of worked out out. My album released on Epic in
two thousand and eight, so you know, after that, I
went to uh uh. In twenty eleven, I was with
the E one Music in New York and then just
released an album last year City Hard Southern Soul with Shaaniky.
(08:15):
So here I am now uh pretty much free agent
and to you know, try to load up the weapon
right now and get all of these these records compiled
and reaching out to friends that I want to have
a part of this new album. And here I am,
you know.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
And that's a blessing too. A lot of people. Okay,
preference media listeners, you need listen to this. This this
mister Gordin has been around for a while. This is
a third album. He puts a lot of time, you
can you can tell you put a lot of time
in thought into the songs that you have. Now, good
question for you. Do you play one instrument multiple instruments?
(08:54):
Where you're self taught? Did you go to school? What's
the background on that?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It was really self taught. I play'd some keys when
I was making my own music. When I was making
all of my own music, you know, from from concepts
on through you know, the making it happen and putting
it down On Wax, I was playing some keys and
I would get other musicians to come in and play
what I had in my head to play, you know.
So I really never have no virtue O. So I
(09:22):
can't really, you know, sit down and run a whole show.
But I wanted to sooner or later when I had
some time to get get some guitar lessons as well
as key lessons, play the keys. But you know, right now,
I leave it in the hands of the producers that
I like to work with and that I have a
really good chemistry and working with, and let them know
my idea. I'll send out ideas to producers that I
(09:45):
work with and try to make it and try to
realize it. So, you know, a lot of thought, you're right,
goes into the records and the lyrics and the stories
and the concepts, and that's what it's all about. You know.
I've always had something about the quality control, and I've
heard albums come out and it's like two good records
on it, and I've always wondered, and I always sat
down with the people that I work with and always said,
(10:06):
you know who sat at the roundtable and okay this
you know, because how they still have their jobs, you
know what I'm saying. So it's always been a thing
with that quality control, and we always try to put
out albums where it's a cohesive body of work for one,
and then it's something that you don't want to skip,
you don't want to skip around. You know, it's something
(10:27):
for every mood and you could just let the album runs.
That's what's most important.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
To me, and that's what we miss nowadays.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And music.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I remember, like I said, I could put on I mean,
we could talk about the greats, you know, the old jag.
You can put on an album from beginning to end
and you want to play it again. Because Air three
was going to put together. You can feel the souls
is raising off the wax back then. I mean, to
see the habit, you know, even how it goes. But
I mean, that's what we really miss right now with music.
(11:01):
It's all put out in a hurry or like you said,
it's one or two songs and just.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
No integrity, single driven industry. Now that the albums are
no more, it's hard to even catch these these these
folks in the industry even calling them albums anymore. They
call them CDs. If you really listen to it, they
call them CDs instead of albums. Now, albums still mean
something to me because the album means that it's a cohesive.
Like I just sat like we just spoke about cohesive's
(11:27):
body of work, and it's something that you put some
thought into, you know what I mean. So it's it's sad, man,
I mean, but you know, all we can do is
try to keep making the music for the people that
want to hear it, and hopefully it'll come back around
with the integrity of artistry is back into this industry.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And now I have a question for you. When you
were in the studio making your first album, how long
did it take you to complete it?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Wow? I got signed in two thousand and five and
the album didn't come out until two thousand and eight,
So it didn't take actually, you know, three years to
make because we went into the label, we went into
Sony and a bunch of the other labels that we
shopped around to with the River and probably three or
four other records on the album, you know, So probably
(12:21):
i'd say a year and a half maybe, you know,
And really, this was really just cutting all kinds of
records to boil it down to the thirteen that's on
after my time, you know, So it's a it's quite
a drawn out process, but you know, after a while,
all the recording is done and then you're just trying
to tie it together with a good mix or you know,
(12:44):
a cohesive mix, because, believe it or not, to a
lot of young artists out there, you know, to have
a uniform mix and master feel is a lot too.
So then you just start creating, you know, molding everything
into a shape. You know, you have to play all
the record recording and all that kind of stuff, but
it's all of that time a year or six months
(13:06):
to a year, it's just about molding it, you know,
and making it sound the way you want it to sound.
So yeah, it's it's it's really you know, it's intricate.
And I'm a virgo, so I think I'm just a
boring perfectionist. But you know, I don't think there was
ever a record that I felt was finished. But you know,
it's having that team that you trust the ear to
(13:27):
say I think it's done, and this is it.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I do understand. Now we all know you had thirteen
tracks on the person when we know that you've probably
got some tracks hid in the way in the vault
that didn't make the album that you're waiting to release
it another time. Are there are songs that you've written
to say sounds good now, but just as an artist,
it's just not the right time to release it. Do
(13:51):
you have any songs that are of equality where you
still just for the time right now? It's it's not
a good mix.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
You know, it's there's been some records that that happens,
but it you know, what it mainly is is because
it sounds like the either the music is outdated or
sounds or you know, a certain feel is outdated. So
what we would do is go back in and you
know if it needs to be rewritten a little bit
(14:19):
or tweaked or music that I call it updated. You know,
I've hit a couple of just recently, a couple of
few of my producers with tracks then records that I've had,
and I'm like, we need to update these because you're
right now. You know, back then, I don't think it
was ready as far as conceptually, and now I think
it's ready. People are able to get it now you
(14:41):
know what I mean. So I call it updating and
really just putting a new a new punch on it,
or a new angle where people will be easier for
them to grasp what I'm talking about in the concept
of the record, because you know, it's not just the track,
not just the music. It's it's equally the message and
(15:01):
the lyrics and the recording and how it sounds sonically.
That is that is important as well.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Right that the record would hit harder than to grab
the attention of the listener when it's ready. It's kind
of like graphic grow. So I truly understand that. Now
we're gonna take a break, REQUICKT. Let's know, I want
you to shout out this. This interview is all about you.
Let your listeners know how they can find you, how
they can find your music, websites, anything, How can we
locate you?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Well, you could check me out on Instagram and Twitter
at Noel Gordean n O E L G O U
are d I N. You can check me on on Facebook,
forward slash, the Real Noel Gordean, the Real Noel Gordean,
and check out my website Noel Gordean dot com that's
in o E L G O U R D I
N dot com.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Now for those once again, we're listening to singer songwriter
Noel Gordeen. Right now we're gonna expose you. If you
have never heard his music before, you're gonna be happy
by this one. We're gonna jump into his single that
hit number one fifteen weeks now on the Urban AC charts.
Really got to recognize on the River. Can you can
(16:13):
you go into this song before we played for our
listeners and let us know the background of this song
while I was written.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Yes, Well, we were in the studio in the Poconos
in Pennsylvania, and it was myself Belayd with Mohammed around
with Brown which is the female on the voice on
the female voice on the record, and my man c K.
And we were either we were from the South or
our families from the South. So we just started talking
about things that were nostalgic and what we remembered growing
(16:41):
up and you know, falling in love for the first time,
that puppy love, or just being around people that we
really felt comfortable with and things that you go through
growing up in the South and church and you know,
baptisms and all of that kind of stuff. So we
just started putting our minds together and putting stories together,
and we melded it, and in four hours we wrote
(17:03):
and recorded this record, which we knew was special when
I came out of the booth. So you know, I
hope you enjoyed the River by Noel Gordon.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
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Speaker 9 (18:06):
All right, Growing up it was tough. We were glad
for what little we had.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I saw my share of old fam Mississippi dirt.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Roads and Confederate flags. Every day my father would tell me,
sun running, don't never come back. That's where I left
my girl.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
That's where my heart is had I held.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
My breath when they dipped my head and I came
up shiny and lean down.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
I found out of my love in the back of
my collar, where they loved my grandfather to my the
river were black boat together at the Sunday services.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
How the river runs to the ocean, ring right back
to you.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
I'm got along, I'm moving on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I bandits the scars of where help I think of
her and sad my ways for her part or a
letter in the bill. I walk the beach with the
sand in my feet, placed my ear up your shell.
I wonder if you miss me too, because I've been
along to get to you. I'm singing, starring, knock, gonna
(19:28):
window and see you. I'm tired of hope to see
you remembers me still. I'm packing my bags, I said,
I'm going back.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Home to the place where I'll belong.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
There.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
When I get there, I'm never gonna leave her again.
You see Sistoll, my farm down by the river, and
my breath when they dipped my head and I came
up shining behind me. If I'm out of my love
and the back of Maya color where I laid my
(20:02):
grandfather to the mother River. We're blacking bolt together at
the Sunday Service System.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
How the river runs to the oceane.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'll be running like that.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
So I'm packing up my suitcase, put me a one wayfair.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
I'm leaving everything to Hilly. But in my heart I
always care see thank you payment, because nothing can replace
that came in my life and worm love.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Held my breath when they dipped my head and I
came up shining and came out of no me.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'm out of my.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Love in the back of Maya Cola where.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
They laid my grandfather to the mother river. Live We're
black boat together at.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
The Sunday Service System, Holliver.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
We have a guest this evening, singer songwriter Noel Gorden.
His bio reads when we're talking about music, it reads
Noel is influenced by the classic soul as well as
the contemporary sounds of R and B and hip hop,
making his music is a singlest blend of each genre.
Listening to that, ladies and gentlemen you can only.
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Once again, how are you doing, my loyal followers and
listeners of the Grind podcast. This is your host, DJ
Retro No, I would not steer you wrong, So you
know I had to introduce you to a new artist
out of North Carolina, south Side, Miko. Make sure you
listen to his tracks on any streaming platform that is
(00:22):
your favorite, and once again head over to the grind
dot online to listen to his podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Like Bacon, I do a foul blakeant.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Just you hang it because I promise my mama I'd
make it.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's like a racing Here we are another episode of
the Grind. Thanks for joining us again. I'm your host,
James Perrier. This podcast is going to take us on
the trip.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Trips and places and moments in my life where I
discovered hip hop, new artists and new sound.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You all ready to go, Let's hit.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
It life my life. I got you fail, We'll chuck
you so this Perrer press play.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The Grind starts the rhyme stars. We come together like
car parts to make you move jobs of life. Don't
help you out on this little bit bruise the purpose
to enlighten you with all we do. Laws exposure interfe
s help can get your poster to post. So we
post to help each other out.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Go down fit for this closure. Get tuned into the
grind this time we take it over with this life
on your line.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
We know we are being blessed with a singer songwriter
spend some time on the East Coast, made its way
down in Mississippi. He's gonna be here to tell you
the whole story about this. But I'd just like to
thank Brandon Brandon Adams over there the Miracle Marketing for
setting this interview up for us tonight. I mean, he's
a very busy individual, but tonight he has taken time
(02:01):
out of his schedule to talk to all of us. So,
without further ado, I like to introduce singer songwriter Noel Gordine.
How you doing this seasoning?
Speaker 7 (02:10):
Doing pretty good? Pretty good? I appreciate you for having
me on.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Hey, that's not a problem, man, it's it's it's a
it's actually a pleasure to have me on the show
because I love music, man, that's one thing that that
I like to listen to, and you've got some very
vibrant cuts on your CDs. Man, you just really speaks
to me. You got that so soul full sound that
(02:36):
I enjoyed listening to.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Well, I know you listened to a lot of music,
so you know, I take it as a huge compliment
coming from you, brother, I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Now. I don't want to put you a designer, because
I want you to tell us what designers you'd like
to be in. But the artist that I like listening
to have that have that sound that you have, I
want you to I we're gonna talk about you tonight.
We ain't gonna talk about that. But it's it's just
very soulfil. Man. It just reminds me of when I
was growing up when music is playing around the house,
(03:08):
or you clean it up with your grandmother's you know,
putting on a record something that everybody listen to. I
guess that's the thing I'm getting at. It's just something
that a whole family can listen to, that can cross
platforms across generations, and if your music is gonna beat
around for a.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Long time, well that's that's what I hope will happen.
You know. It's it's you ask what I call my
music and what I call my style. I like to
call it sol and be you know, because I think
the rhythm is given. So you know, I like to
call it soul and blue. So that's pretty much where
I'm at. And you know, soul is hard, very hard
(03:46):
to you know, categorize or even define. But the thing is,
to me, when soul is missing, it's easy to tell.
So you know, I just try to put I just
try to make music that that feels good to me,
because first and foremost, gotta be honest with the with
the artists within, you know, and what I have on
my heart and soul to make. And just like you
(04:08):
just said, you know, back in the day when when
you were cleaning up the house and the music that
you would play, and those are the artists that I
grew up on and grew up loving, you know, hanging
out with Pops all the time because he was playing
Uh you know, I had to face it early on
hanging out with Pops because he wasn't gonna play no
no hip hop music or you know, none of that
Hugh Jack slang or nothing like that. It was gonna
(04:28):
be the old school, uh, you know, the oldie book goodies,
which he called them, the Sam Cooks, Marvin Gaye, Solomon
Burke's the Brooke Benton's Tyrone Davis and Johnny Taylor, and
you know, it was it was all of that music
that I grew up loving, and it was that that
soul music that really struck chords in my heart. And
(04:49):
I had love for music from back then, and I knew,
you know, when it came time when I was able
to make my own music, I wanted to have that
authentic feel that they had with the live instrumentation and
just the heartwarming harmonies and melodies and all of that
kind of stuff. So I just knew that I wanted
to make some music that could really touch people. And
(05:10):
like you said, you know, it spans across age groups
that the you know, all of that disappears when you
talk about good music. And I call it retro irrelevant,
you know, because it's got the old field, but it's
still relevant in today's times and people can still you know,
relate to it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
You know, I understand that. Now for the listeners that
don't know Noel, can you let us know where you're
from and how the music it started for you? I mean,
where did it all start from?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Well, I came from Brockton, Massachusetts. It's about it's a
suburb of Boston. It's about twenty five miles south of Boston,
and you know, it's a city non for fighters. I
mean Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, you know both, and
so we're known for getting knocked down, but we don't
(06:03):
stay down too long. We put ourselves up and get
back into the fight. So that's where I was from,
a city, you know, fast paced city life. But the
love for the music really came from, like I said,
hanging out with pops, taking trips down south because my family,
my parents are from Mississippi, so every summer we're you know,
convoys of six to eight cars heading down the highway
(06:27):
down South for a family reunion or family gathering or
get together, you know. So it was that soul music
that really became synonymous down in the South, because let's
face it, most of the artists that made the soul
music back in the day was from the South. And
you know, it seems to be true nowadays as well.
So you know, the South pretty much became synonymous and
whatever soul music I grew up on, it seemed like
(06:48):
it was right at home in the South, you know. So,
but me growing up in the city as well. It
was it was always that that thing that I hung
out with my brother and he had a love for
the hip hop and you know that the break dance
music and the club music and the New Jack swing
and all of that kind of stuff. So I pretty
much fused all of that together and came up with
(07:09):
the style that people know as the artist Noel Gordin.
So that's pretty much where I'm from and getting my start.
It was just I really jumped in real hard and
in about two thousand and making music and getting on
the road and met up with some fellas back home
and started just putting together a catalog of music. When
we started taking off to New York and you know,
(07:31):
doing whatever we could do this ground and scrape some
money together to get rental cars, and we were sleeping
in cars to just try to get opportunities to meet
up with people that you know, could get in with
people that can say this to somebody to try to
get an opportunity. And you know, in two thousand and
five it finally happened a sony with with Chad Elliott
and KP and you know, Donnieanare and Michelle Anthony and
(07:55):
everybody over there at Sony at Columbia, so it kind
of worked out out. My album released on Epic in
two thousand and eight, so you know, after that, I
went to uh uh. In twenty eleven, I was with
the E one Music in New York and then just
released an album last year City Hard Southern Soul with Shaaniky.
(08:15):
So here I am now uh pretty much free agent
and to you know, try to load up the weapon
right now and get all of these these records compiled
and reaching out to friends that I want to have
a part of this new album. And here I am,
you know.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
And that's a blessing too. A lot of people. Okay,
preference media listeners, you need listen to this. This this
mister Gordin has been around for a while. This is
a third album. He puts a lot of time, you
can you can tell you put a lot of time
in thought into the songs that you have. Now, good
question for you. Do you play one instrument multiple instruments?
(08:54):
Where you're self taught? Did you go to school? What's
the background on that?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
It was really self taught. I play'd some keys when
I was making my own music. When I was making
all of my own music, you know, from from concepts
on through you know, the making it happen and putting
it down On Wax, I was playing some keys and
I would get other musicians to come in and play
what I had in my head to play, you know.
So I really never have no virtue O. So I
(09:22):
can't really, you know, sit down and run a whole show.
But I wanted to sooner or later when I had
some time to get get some guitar lessons as well
as key lessons, play the keys. But you know, right now,
I leave it in the hands of the producers that
I like to work with and that I have a
really good chemistry and working with, and let them know
my idea. I'll send out ideas to producers that I
(09:45):
work with and try to make it and try to
realize it. So, you know, a lot of thought, you're right,
goes into the records and the lyrics and the stories
and the concepts, and that's what it's all about. You know.
I've always had something about the quality control, and I've
heard albums come out and it's like two good records
on it, and I've always wondered, and I always sat
down with the people that I work with and always said,
(10:06):
you know who sat at the roundtable and okay this
you know, because how they still have their jobs, you
know what I'm saying. So it's always been a thing
with that quality control, and we always try to put
out albums where it's a cohesive body of work for one,
and then it's something that you don't want to skip,
you don't want to skip around. You know, it's something
(10:27):
for every mood and you could just let the album runs.
That's what's most important.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
To me, and that's what we miss nowadays.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And music.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I remember, like I said, I could put on I mean,
we could talk about the greats, you know, the old jag.
You can put on an album from beginning to end
and you want to play it again. Because Air three
was going to put together. You can feel the souls
is raising off the wax back then. I mean, to
see the habit, you know, even how it goes. But
I mean, that's what we really miss right now with music.
(11:01):
It's all put out in a hurry or like you said,
it's one or two songs and just.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
No integrity, single driven industry. Now that the albums are
no more, it's hard to even catch these these these
folks in the industry even calling them albums anymore. They
call them CDs. If you really listen to it, they
call them CDs instead of albums. Now, albums still mean
something to me because the album means that it's a cohesive.
Like I just sat like we just spoke about cohesive's
(11:27):
body of work, and it's something that you put some
thought into, you know what I mean. So it's it's sad, man,
I mean, but you know, all we can do is
try to keep making the music for the people that
want to hear it, and hopefully it'll come back around
with the integrity of artistry is back into this industry.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
And now I have a question for you. When you
were in the studio making your first album, how long
did it take you to complete it?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Wow? I got signed in two thousand and five and
the album didn't come out until two thousand and eight,
So it didn't take actually, you know, three years to
make because we went into the label, we went into
Sony and a bunch of the other labels that we
shopped around to with the River and probably three or
four other records on the album, you know, So probably
(12:21):
i'd say a year and a half maybe, you know,
And really, this was really just cutting all kinds of
records to boil it down to the thirteen that's on
after my time, you know, So it's a it's quite
a drawn out process, but you know, after a while,
all the recording is done and then you're just trying
to tie it together with a good mix or you know,
(12:44):
a cohesive mix, because, believe it or not, to a
lot of young artists out there, you know, to have
a uniform mix and master feel is a lot too.
So then you just start creating, you know, molding everything
into a shape. You know, you have to play all
the record recording and all that kind of stuff, but
it's all of that time a year or six months
(13:06):
to a year, it's just about molding it, you know,
and making it sound the way you want it to sound.
So yeah, it's it's it's really you know, it's intricate.
And I'm a virgo, so I think I'm just a
boring perfectionist. But you know, I don't think there was
ever a record that I felt was finished. But you know,
it's having that team that you trust the ear to
(13:27):
say I think it's done, and this is it.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I do understand. Now we all know you had thirteen
tracks on the person when we know that you've probably
got some tracks hid in the way in the vault
that didn't make the album that you're waiting to release
it another time. Are there are songs that you've written
to say sounds good now, but just as an artist,
it's just not the right time to release it. Do
(13:51):
you have any songs that are of equality where you
still just for the time right now? It's it's not
a good mix.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
You know, it's there's been some records that that happens,
but it you know, what it mainly is is because
it sounds like the either the music is outdated or
sounds or you know, a certain feel is outdated. So
what we would do is go back in and you
know if it needs to be rewritten a little bit
(14:19):
or tweaked or music that I call it updated. You know,
I've hit a couple of just recently, a couple of
few of my producers with tracks then records that I've had,
and I'm like, we need to update these because you're
right now. You know, back then, I don't think it
was ready as far as conceptually, and now I think
it's ready. People are able to get it now you
(14:41):
know what I mean. So I call it updating and
really just putting a new a new punch on it,
or a new angle where people will be easier for
them to grasp what I'm talking about in the concept
of the record, because you know, it's not just the track,
not just the music. It's it's equally the message and
(15:01):
the lyrics and the recording and how it sounds sonically.
That is that is important as well.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Right that the record would hit harder than to grab
the attention of the listener when it's ready. It's kind
of like graphic grow. So I truly understand that. Now
we're gonna take a break, REQUICKT. Let's know, I want
you to shout out this. This interview is all about you.
Let your listeners know how they can find you, how
they can find your music, websites, anything, How can we
locate you?
Speaker 7 (15:30):
Well, you could check me out on Instagram and Twitter
at Noel Gordean n O E L G O U
are d I N. You can check me on on Facebook,
forward slash, the Real Noel Gordean, the Real Noel Gordean,
and check out my website Noel Gordean dot com that's
in o E L G O U R D I
N dot com.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Now for those once again, we're listening to singer songwriter
Noel Gordeen. Right now we're gonna expose you. If you
have never heard his music before, you're gonna be happy
by this one. We're gonna jump into his single that
hit number one fifteen weeks now on the Urban AC charts.
Really got to recognize on the River. Can you can
(16:13):
you go into this song before we played for our
listeners and let us know the background of this song
while I was written.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Yes, Well, we were in the studio in the Poconos
in Pennsylvania, and it was myself Belayd with Mohammed around
with Brown which is the female on the voice on
the female voice on the record, and my man c K.
And we were either we were from the South or
our families from the South. So we just started talking
about things that were nostalgic and what we remembered growing
(16:41):
up and you know, falling in love for the first time,
that puppy love, or just being around people that we
really felt comfortable with and things that you go through
growing up in the South and church and you know,
baptisms and all of that kind of stuff. So we
just started putting our minds together and putting stories together,
and we melded it, and in four hours we wrote
(17:03):
and recorded this record, which we knew was special when
I came out of the booth. So you know, I
hope you enjoyed the River by Noel Gordon.
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Speaker 9 (18:06):
All right, Growing up it was tough. We were glad
for what little we had.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
I saw my share of old fam Mississippi dirt.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Roads and Confederate flags. Every day my father would tell me,
sun running, don't never come back. That's where I left
my girl.
Speaker 9 (18:34):
That's where my heart is had I held.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
My breath when they dipped my head and I came
up shiny and lean down.
Speaker 11 (18:44):
I found out of my love in the back of
my collar, where they loved my grandfather to my the
river were black boat together at the Sunday services.
Speaker 12 (18:56):
How the river runs to the ocean, ring right back
to you.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
I'm got along, I'm moving on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I bandits the scars of where help I think of
her and sad my ways for her part or a
letter in the bill. I walk the beach with the
sand in my feet, placed my ear up your shell.
I wonder if you miss me too, because I've been
along to get to you. I'm singing, starring, knock, gonna
(19:28):
window and see you. I'm tired of hope to see
you remembers me still. I'm packing my bags, I said,
I'm going back.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Home to the place where I'll belong.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
There.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
When I get there, I'm never gonna leave her again.
You see Sistoll, my farm down by the river, and
my breath when they dipped my head and I came
up shining behind me. If I'm out of my love
and the back of Maya color where I laid my
(20:02):
grandfather to the mother River. We're blacking bolt together at
the Sunday Service System.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
How the river runs to the oceane.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'll be running like that.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
So I'm packing up my suitcase, put me a one wayfair.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
I'm leaving everything to Hilly. But in my heart I
always care see thank you payment, because nothing can replace
that came in my life and worm love.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Held my breath when they dipped my head and I
came up shining and came out of no me.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I'm out of my.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Love in the back of Maya Cola where.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
They laid my grandfather to the mother river. Live We're
black boat together at.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
The Sunday Service System, Holliver.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
We have a guest this evening, singer songwriter Noel Gorden.
His bio reads when we're talking about music, it reads
Noel is influenced by the classic soul as well as
the contemporary sounds of R and B and hip hop,
making his music is a singlest blend of each genre.
Listening to that, ladies and gentlemen you can only.
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