Jamming with Alisha

I met Alisha Merrick at the end of 2008, when I was in South Africa visiting my family after spending a year an a half in Chicago on my LDS mission. She was there visiting her parents who had moved to Cape Town for a work contract for a few years.

We only met and talked for a few minutes, but we really hit is off! We talked about music and how we both wanted to do more with our own music. So we exchanged contact information and decided to make contact when we were both back in the USA in 2009. After just a couple months Alisha informed me she was moving to Provo for the summer to take classes at BYU to complete her degree (finally)! I was SO excited as we had discussed how we wanted to "jam" and write some songs together!


So in June and July, we got together several times and did some recordings on her macbook and we also worked on our songwriting. One afternoon Alisha song me a song she has written. She needed a song for a presentation she was doing and just decided to WRITE one herself (why not?)!

She enlisted me to help come up with the instrumentation and soon I had a guitar part and backing and some harmonies to go along with the melody she had. The evening we finished the song. Soon after that we recorded it on her macbook and she added some percussion and VOILA! It was SO much fun and I feel like this time we had together was good for both of us in so many ways!

Listen to the song we did for her class below (warning some images are graphic)!



Today, Alisha is preparing to release a novel that she wrote with an acompanying soundtrack of music that she wrote. She started a band in Texas called "Alisha Found Eden" and she is participating in music events and workshops. And I am an aspiring Singer-Songwriter, singing, performing and recording as often as I can and finding myself involved in several other music projects such as The Work and StarBiz and YouTube.