Soufflé Pop was coined during a radio interview on The Time Machine, a daily broadcast on the island of Maui, between host Michael McCartney and singer-songwriter Michael Oliver. In discussing the musical influences and songwriting craft behind the 2011 album "Yin & Yanxiety" by Michael Oliver & The Sacred Band, Oliver mentioned the word soufflé when describing putting a song together. This resulted in McCartney suggesting to create yet another musical niche genre called "Soufflé Pop".


Soufflé Pop would bring a number of influences to the musical table including; Baroque Pop (The Left Banke, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Sagittarius, The Bee Gees [late sixties/early seventies]), MOR Pop (Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Lee Hazelwood, Harry Nilsson, The Carpenters), Power Pop (Raspberries, Badfinger, The Knack, Mike Viola & Candy Butchers), Singer-Songwriter (Laura Nyro, Carole King, Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Aimee Mann, Rachael Yamagata, Billy Joel, Rupert Holmes), Bubblegum (Archies, Josie & The Pussycats, Bay City Rollers, Tommy Roe, The Lemon Pipers), Rockabilly (Robert Gordon, Stray Cats, Marshall Crenshaw), Sunshine Pop (The Cowsills, The Association, Small Circle of Friends, Curt Boettcher, Millennium), Classic Sixties & Seventies Pop, "The Three B's" that Richard Carpenter cited as major influences (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach) and overall melodic rock and pop that can be a near whisper of raw emotion to a full blown orchestral arrangement or simply the loudest joyful jangle guitar and power chords that deliver the musical goods (The Who, The Kinks). Beatles inspired bands who continued the eclectic sounds of the Fab Four into their own stamp after the Beatles went their separate ways (Electric Light Orchestra, Klaatu, Cheap Trick, Pilot, Supertramp).




Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Soufflé Pop Serves a Pop Soufflé from John Alagia (2007)



The Maui radio airwaves were introduced to John Alagia's "Honey Come Home" in early 2007. John had featured his song on his MySpace Music profile and The Time Machine Radio Crew immediately started playing it on the air and began to get heavy airplay on a handful of Maui radio stations and has remained one of the most played songs for the last five years on The Time Machine broadcast. The arrangement of the song has been stated by radio hosts Summer Blue, Jenny Leong and Michael McCartney as a tune that would have easily been on "Beatles 65". It has all the love and affection behind it like any Beatles classic which truly makes "Honey Come Home" a timeless song. The music world will have to wait for John Alagia to release an album because he is so busy behind the recording console as a producer and engineer for other artists like Rachael Yamagata, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Lifehouse, Mandy Moore, Madi Diaz, Terra Naomi, Ben Lee, Liz Phair, Katherine McPhee, Vertical Horizon, Mieka Pauley, Brett Dennon, Josh Kelly, Evermore, BoDeans, Shawn Colvin, Ben Folds Five, Lenka and the Dave Matthews Band. The song was featured on the motion picture soundtrack of the 2007 remake of "The Heartbreak Kid" starring Ben Stiller.







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