The ChapTones - i'll be there (non-stop mix)
i’ll be there (non-stop mix)
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author’s note:
from the day i finished the album, i knew i wanted to make a version that more closely corresponded to how it was performed - as three twelve-minute suites, largely without interruption. due to the way we recorded, it would have been a headache to present the music that way on the album proper, but as soon as the final version was sent off to distribution i started work on what i’ve dubbed the NON-STOP MIX. a bit of a misnomer perhaps, given that there are occasionally stops, but rather than between every track, only where deemed thematically and narratively necessary. the non-stop format also allowed me to add some framing that never worked on the standard album - the tracks homemade dynamite, falling / recovery, and high hopes were written around a real-life few hours at a party in october 2018, so i used some found audio from that night to tie those sections together. this is my favourite way to listen to the album, and i hope you all love it as much as i do 💙
avery roberts
arranger, writer, producer
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CREDITS
0:00 - intro (who’s loving you)
OPB: The Jackson 5
Written by: Smokey Robinson
Solo: Sydney Jarvis
1:57 - victorious
OPB: Panic! At The Disco
Written by: Brendon Urie, Mike Viola, White Sea, Jake Sinclair, Alexander DeLeon, Rivers Cuomo, Christopher J. Baran
Solo: Maia Mohammadi
4:44 - desperado / retrograde
Desperado OPB: Rihanna
Desperado written by: Krystin Watkins, Mick Schultz, Robyn Fenty, James Fauntleroy, Derrus Rachel
Retrograde OPB: James Blake
Retrograde written by: James Blake
Solos: Jenny Newman, Jordan Decker, Avery Roberts
8:07 - leave me lonely
OPB: The ChapTones
Written by: Avery Roberts
Solo: Avery Roberts
11:50 - interlude (wewereallalone)
OPB: The ChapTones
Written by: Avery Roberts
Solo: Emma Ballen
12:54 - run with you
OPB: The ChapTones
Written by: Avery Roberts
Solo: Haley Kagimoto
Samples elements of: “Runnin’ (Lose It All),” opb. Naughty Boy, Beyoncé, Arrow Benjamin; written by Jonny Coffer, Naughty Boy, Beyoncé, Arrow Benjamin, Carla Marie Williams
15:26 - october interlude (everyone’s watching)
Found audio courtesy of: Emma Ballen, Reece Melber
15:32 - homemade dynamite
OPB: Lorde
Written by: Ella Yelich-O’Connor, Tove Lo, Jakob Jerlström, Ludvig Söderberg
Solos: Ramya Sinha, Marshall Scott
Samples elements of: “Sober,” opb. Lorde; written by Ella Yelich-O’Connor, Jack Antonoff
18:13 - falling / recovery
OPB: The ChapTones
Written by: Avery Roberts
Solo: Avery Roberts
Samples elements of: “leave me lonely,” opb. The ChapTones; written by Avery Roberts
20:40 - high hopes
OPB: Panic! At The Disco
Written by: Brendon Urie, Jake Sinclair, Jenny Owen Youngs, Lauren Pritchard, Sam Hollander, William Robban-Bean, Jonas Jeberg, Tayla Pars, Ilsey Juber
Solo: Regina Bryant
23:13 - show up to rehearsal not sad (sanaz’s interlude)
Motivational speaking: Sanaz Bashiri
Found audio courtesy of: Emma Ballen, Reece Melber
23:25 - omen
OPB: Disclosure, Sam Smith
Written by: Howard Lawrence, Guy Lawrence, Jimmy Napes, Sam Smith
Lead: Marshall Scott
26:15 - ilomilo
OPB: Billie Eilish
Written by: Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
Solo: Kaylee Brown
28:30 - both sides now
OPB: Joni Mitchell
Written by: Joni Mitchell
Lead: Avery Roberts
31:48 - epilogue (get well soon)
OPB: Ariana Grande
Written by: Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande
Solos: Emma Ballen, Marjan Moshiri, Ryan Greger, Sydney Jarvis, Ramya Sinha
ARRANGEMENTS, PRIMARY TRACKING, EDITING, MIXING by Avery Roberts
ADD’L TRACKING by Regina Bryant, Jordan Decker, Nicholas La’a, Sean McGrath, Abigail Wisdom
VOCAL PERCUSSION patterned and sampled from Ethan Stoneham & Avery Roberts
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“i’ll be there” is dedicated with love to our founding music director Stephanie Caress, without whom nothing we’ve created would have been possible.
