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MERLINO - NEW RELEASE: DON'T LOOK BACK
The new release "Don't Look Back" is now available for download and streaming on all online music stores, and also on our website.
The production of this song starts back in 2024 when Andrea writes and records the music and lyrics. during the pre-production, Andrea realizes this song is perfect for a duetto with a female singer, so he starts looking for the right artist. Being unsutisfied after several attempt with various singers, he puts the project on hold, untill when late in 2025 at a music event he meets and connect with the soprano Olexandra Zabashta, of the Kyiv National Opera. The song's faith is now sealed, and the two plan a recording sessions for the following months.
This song showcases Andrea's composing and performing talent and Olexandra incredibly clear and precise voice, resulting in a deeply emotionally charged and powerful performance.
The production of this song starts back in 2024 when Andrea writes and records the music and lyrics. during the pre-production, Andrea realizes this song is perfect for a duetto with a female singer, so he starts looking for the right artist. Being unsutisfied after several attempt with various singers, he puts the project on hold, untill when late in 2025 at a music event he meets and connect with the soprano Olexandra Zabashta, of the Kyiv National Opera. The song's faith is now sealed, and the two plan a recording sessions for the following months.
This song showcases Andrea's composing and performing talent and Olexandra incredibly clear and precise voice, resulting in a deeply emotionally charged and powerful performance.
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"Mix your roots with your rhythm to create your voice"
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Mix-And-Master
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Andrea Merlino
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Unique Rich And Captivating
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Author songs
Guitar Performance
For Events
In Sonoma County
Rock
Rock&Roll
Country
Instrumental
Author songs
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Help pay for our music production.
The average cost to professionally record and publish one song is about $5,000 or more. Please consider that to recover those costs millions and millions of downloads/streams are necessary, and independent artists like us are typically never getting this type of exposure. Your donation will help us covering some of the production costs, motivate us to keep writing, crafting and producing quality music. You can also chose to become a patron by selecting the monthly donation option. When becoming a patron, you will also receive a link to download all our musical content from Google Drive.
About
Andrea Merlino is the founder of Merlino Music Record Company. He resides in Santa Rosa, California, owns a recording studio, and as guitar player and music producer he is sought after in the San Francisco Bay Area. His production transforms raw talents into refined gems, ready to air on the radio.
Andrea Merlino is an Italian-American musician. Born and raised in Lake Como, Italy, now a long time resident of Sonoma County, where he moved to develop his music career.
His professional horizon is shaped by the emotion and the energy of melodic rock, classic and modern rock, but also influenced by other genera such as country, rockabilly, jazz, classical.
As a band founder and guitarist, Andrea toured in Lake Como, Italy, and Southern Switzerland. In California, he played with regional bands such as Allways Elvis and License To Chill. Most recently he has been performing live with The Juggs (Judds tribute band), The Vinyl Tap (Classic Rock cover band), Steph Cali Band (Original Music Artist, singer) and King Jonny Band (Elvis tribute and revival).
Andrea's goal is to create music at professional level and deeply connected, as reflected in his album "Immensity." He is the music composer, songwriter, singer, and producer of this album. Andrea's most popular songs were aired on the San Francisco Bay Area radio stations.
Andrea Merlino invites music enthusiasts to take the journey with him to discover the art of music. He is open for music production, songwriting, and live guitar performances.
Andrea Merlino is an Italian-American musician. Born and raised in Lake Como, Italy, now a long time resident of Sonoma County, where he moved to develop his music career.
His professional horizon is shaped by the emotion and the energy of melodic rock, classic and modern rock, but also influenced by other genera such as country, rockabilly, jazz, classical.
As a band founder and guitarist, Andrea toured in Lake Como, Italy, and Southern Switzerland. In California, he played with regional bands such as Allways Elvis and License To Chill. Most recently he has been performing live with The Juggs (Judds tribute band), The Vinyl Tap (Classic Rock cover band), Steph Cali Band (Original Music Artist, singer) and King Jonny Band (Elvis tribute and revival).
Andrea's goal is to create music at professional level and deeply connected, as reflected in his album "Immensity." He is the music composer, songwriter, singer, and producer of this album. Andrea's most popular songs were aired on the San Francisco Bay Area radio stations.
Andrea Merlino invites music enthusiasts to take the journey with him to discover the art of music. He is open for music production, songwriting, and live guitar performances.
F.A.Q
What is your process for song production?
When working with other musicians, artists, singers, songwriters, our first step is getting to know each others, delineate the exact goals to be achieved and a timeline. Most of guitar, keyboards and E-drums tracking is done directly at our studio in Rincon Valley. Preproduction, editing, sound replacement and other tasks are mostly done here at our studio as well. For most professional quality vocals, acoustic drums and other non-electric instruments we typically track at Uncontained Studios here in Santa Rosa, CA. This studio is owned and operated by our long time friend and cooperator, also multi-awarded music and video producer Sir Julio Martinez. Uncontained has large array of high-end microphones (Neumann, Rode, Shure...), several tracking rooms and, like our studio, state of the art digital interfaces and Mac processors. Both studios offer an extensive array of analog sound processors and digital plug ins, so to achieve the expected results.
How do I order a project?
Just reach out by email and provide a general information on your project and your contact information, we'll get back to you promptly.
How much does it cost?
Our current rates for use of the studio are $65/Hour for Merlino Music Studio and $95/Hour for Uncontained. We mostly price sessions by the project, after the details are discussed. Most importantly, we work with the artist/songwriter in a way to maximize the yield and minimize their cost. Our primary goal is to produce high quality music for and with the artist.
Do you work remotely?
Yes, of course! While certain production phases will require the presence of the artist/performer in the studio, like for tracking vocals and instruments, many other phases like editing, mixing, mastering do not strictly require them on site. When review and approval is required by the artist, we can share files via Google Drive, or other clouds based file sharing platforms.
Can you provide musicians, source instruments?
Yes we do! Besides being sound engineers, we also are well known musicians (Andrea on guitar, Julio on keys) we also network with a large number of local, professional level musicians, and can source any instrument you might need for your recordings. Besides top of the line mics, we also have ready available tube amps such as Vox, Carvin, Fender, Trace Eliot, a large selection of guitar pedals, including Sans Amp, Source Audio, MXr, Digitech, and many more. We also provide electric and acoustic guitars, from vintage Strats and Teles, to 12 strings electric, Schecter 5 strings and Fender bass, Ludwig acoustic drums, and more...
Beside music, what other passions do you have?
I am a pretty good chef, and can cook amazing Italian traditional dishes, paired with great wines. I also love any sports involving hitting a ball with a stick, such as baseball, but most of all I am an avid tennis player. Once in a while, I like to vacation where I can snorkel!
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