An Interview With Pop Singer-Songwriter Arden Kaywin - Page 4

So what is in the immediate future for Arden? Make another album maybe, change her sound a little, experiment with the music?

"The direction I want to go in is just a little bit edgier, a little bit less piano-driven. I always write on piano but I think that I would like the arrangements to be a little more guitar-driven. I have a guitar player and he is really the staple in this band of great guys who play with me. A lot of the time I will write the chords and lyrics and then I'll say 'hey why don't you just come over for a few hours' and he will guitarize it. A lot times it changes the vibe and I want it to.

"Whereas on the last album I wrote the songs to be played on the piano, I was arranging piano parts, with some of my new songs I am writing them with the mind-set that this is really going to be played on guitar. It's a process.

"You make something and you put it out there and you hope that people respond to it. And people definitely have been responding to it. So now it's just a matter of getting the right kind of exposure in the right time at the right place."

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