Songs From Above  people.  music. music. people.
tel: 703-786-6171 

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ABOUT
Hello, my name is Nkeng Alemanji. I was born in Cameroon, grew up in Canada & Cameroon, and now live in the Washington DC area.

Songs From Above is my music services company. We cater to our clients in a responsive, thoughtful, get-the-job-done manner, so that they get more than their money pays for, every time.

If you're here for my CD Simple As I Am, we are re-developing the site.
The new website will be the highway (so to speak) for an exciting journey to a full out professional career. I will like you to be a part of it, so please leave us your e-mail, so we can get back to you once the website's done.
In the meantime, would you like to download the CD?

sure, I'd love to.

If you don't have an iPod or want to get the songs from another source, you can download Simple As I Am on AOL.
 


RECENT WORK
Flo Anito (No Dustbunnies)

I recorded, and mixed 2 of the songs (tracks 9 & 10) on this exciting new record from Flo Anito.

The CD includes work by other producers: Chris Keup (Jason Mraz, O.A.R.), and Stewart Myers (Lifehouse, Erin McKeown) of Grantham Dispatch with Brian Jones (Dave Mathews, Mandy Moore) on drums.
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America's Hot Musician - reality
TV show

The show's creators came to Songs From Above to engineer, co-produce, and mix the theme song; they also licensed one of our originals - a dance track "This Is It" - for the show's intro. clip.

“Nkeng is very pleasurable to work with and passionate about his work and will put forth his best... ”
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Carol Pinau
... licenses some of our original music for her documentaries, most recently for Kenya Stories. Carol is a BBC Documentary of The Year winner, and African Vision Award Producer / Director for some of the most ground-breaking documentaries on Africa.
...a delight to work with - I appreciated how well he understood the mood I needed and that he delivered on-time under very quick deadlines”.
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Daniel Villar
... the accomplished, Berklee trained pianist and composer came to Songs From Above to co-produce, engineer all the vocals for, mix, and master the full length album, "The Clouds That Covered The Sun".
What Nkeng does in the studio – being able to recreate and record a song someone else hears in their head – is an art all in itself, and Nkeng is quite the artist!”

SERVICES
Music for film
Directors and producers benefit from our affordable licensing rates, as well as from our responsive and individualized communication, and multi-lingual / multi-cultural experience, to get vital music to enhance their work...    more
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Digital Recording Lessons
(schools & home-studio owners)
We teach kids (middle to high school), home-studio owners, and bands, about recording techniques.
We guide them on how to get professional sounding mixes, and the principles of recording. For our work with schools, we incorporate positive-frame-of-mind lessons to make sure we engage the students and teach them more than just music engineering...  
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Music for TV

TV show creators & music supervisors find great music for their work - and we clear it fast - when they come to us. Benefitting from our ownership of all rights to our music, and our flexible way of working, they can get the music in their shows within tight deadlines.    more
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Work with performers
Performers (singers, songwriters, choirs, chamber groups, musicians) benefit from our expertise in music production and engineering, and come to us to bring their work to life. Be it in a studio recording or live recording...    more  

NEWS

Monday, February 25, 2008

Kenya Stories on CNN!

This week, CNN International's Inside Africa featured an interview with producer/director Carol Pineau and clips from Kenya Stories. 

The Kenya Stories documentary promo, for which Songs From Above's original compositions were licensed, can be watched here.