there’s been a negative vibe running throughout the world lately. I wanted to go against that grain. I’m not always happy-go-lucky. But I wanted to channel my influences while taking people away from dwelling on their misery.” To prove that he’s always been on the cheery side, Mutlu makes note of the oldest song on the record: “See What It Brings.” It was written when he was studying in college. “I just remember feeling down and I wanted to get out of it. So I wrote about the optimism of the future to help lift me from my doldrums.”
If Mutlu had only been around when we were in college.
No sooner than he’d written that song Multu commenced to take part in Philly’s open mic singer-songwriter scene. With Philly being the melting pot it is, fitting in and moving quickly forward was an effortless exercise. Especially since he befriended then, some of the same people who are on LIVIN’ IT today, including co-songwriters Ben Arnold, Scot Sax, McGowan, Tony Reyes and Ojike and vocalists G. Love and Amos Lee. In fact, it was Lee who produced Mutlu’s 2006 eponymous EP.
Mutlu’s says it’s that thread – the Philly-centric, the spirit of collaboration – that makes LIVIN’ IT whole.
“It’s not a concept record. But that sense of unity is what’s behind the album. With all its collaborators, the process reads like a hip-hop CD. “Damn I can’t believe you caught that” says Mutlu. “That’s exactly it. I might be coming primarily from R&B, but I wanted to take hip hop’s element of ‘collabo’ and bring it to my acoustic soul thing.”
To make LIVIN’ IT raw and silken, it was important to keep it tight. Mutlu got multi-instrumentalist/ producer T Bone-Wolk – famous for doing those things with Elvis Costello
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