Canalot Club

MyGen Profile GeneratorCanalot Club is the brainchild of Mitsuya Fujimoto and Jess Bailey -music collaborators since 1990.I first met Jess in 1990 when I was one of the producers for the Japanese pop duo Chage and Aska. Jess, who began his career as keyboard player for Spandau Ballet, was a multi-talented composer and arranger who had been working in the studio with a variety of different internationally successful artists including, Simply Red, Alison Moyet and Patricia Kaas. Since then, Jess and I kept in touch while continuing to work on different live and studio projects. It wasn’t until 1997 that we found we were both available at the same time to hook up and work on something of our own together. Mondo Paradiso was born - a combination of smooth silky textured sounds and quirky, persuasive rhythm. The first single ‘Fallen Angel’ was a slow starter commercially, but critically acclaimed in the UK national press and in Europe. Follow up singles ‘Whale Nation’ and ‘Mezza Luna’ achieved substantial chart success and secured us an album deal in Japan.The first album, ‘Cinema Paradiso’ was released in Japan in 1999 and has given us the opportunity to work with some of the most successful artists in Japan, such as Hitomi Yaida, known as Yaiko. Yaiko’s debut album went platinum and she called on Mondo Paridiso to produce projects based in UK as part of her European launch. As a result, Yaiko’s singles ‘I like 2’ and ‘Darling Darling’ were popular successes.In 2003 Jess and I decided to form Canalot Club, a production team designed to work with a variety of artists and musicians. We wanted to produce an easily defined sound, soothing to the ears and a contrast to the club anthems currently being produced. The idealism of Canalot Club is ‘less is more’. Over the last few years Canalot Club have composed more than 300 pieces of music, many of which have featured in TV programmes and advertising campaigns. Recently Canalot Club were given the opportunity to make some of their music available in Japan and as a result, their first album ‘Mezza Luna’ will be released on i-Tunes in Japan on 13 December 2006, to be followed by a second album - ‘All I Could Give’ in early 2007.For download:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? id=206642990&s=143462