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The music clips featuring singer Justin Catalino are from Mike's recent production and songwriting collaboration, "Welcome to Vacationland"'. This album's creative process was a bit out of the norm, as far as production methods go. What makes it so different is that 95% of the album was created without the artists' (Justin Catalino) supervision. Whereas most artists and bands take an instrumental role in the making of the album, Catalino indicated at the beginning that he wished to leave the conceptualizing of the songs up to Leone.
On this album, Catalino would sing rough versions of the melodies for Mike, then leave him to build the song from the ground up for a week or two, before returning to the studio and singing the lead vocal. This is just one way to complete an album, and Mike gladly welcomes more input from the artist.
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On all the preceding clips, Mike Leone performed all instruments, including all acoustic guitars, electric guitars, slide guitar, acoustic & electric piano, trumpet, synthesizers, drums & percussion, as well as writing all parts, including all background vocal parts.
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