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Travis and Arrington had both played in A Lot Like Birds not wanting to step on toes, MedinaвЂ™s initial plan was just to make the record, without turning it in to a full band or touring on it.

Yet Royal CodaвЂ™s lineup still wasnвЂ™t complete. He then talked with VuDu Studios owner (and the producer / mixer of the record) Mike Watts about having Travis come in to record vocals, and reached out to Blue Swan RecordsвЂ™ owner Will Swan about putting it out on the label not 24 hours after Medina had first panicked, flights were booked to finish the record with Travis. Sometimes, a moment of panic can drive you to think on your feet, and make decisions to move quickly: wanting to find a way to put the record out, Medina reached out to Kurt Travis (formerly of A Lot Like BirdsВ and Dance Gavin Dance) about recording vocals. I either get someone else to sing on it, um, or I just donвЂ™t put it out and I take a loss.вЂќ вЂњIвЂ™m sitting there listening to the mixes sometime in December with my vocals on it, and IвЂ™m hating it, IвЂ™m kinda having a panic attack cuz IвЂ™m really really nitpicky about my voice вЂ“ I decide I donвЂ™t want to release it, and that left me with two choices. вЂњI kept having this hesitation,вЂќ he confesses, вЂњI didnвЂ™t wanna record my own voice вЂ“ I had never done it before, and I was just being really stubborn, but I was like, вЂAlright, if no one else is gonna do it, I gotta do it.'вЂќДifferent ideas were bounced around вЂ“ Carlo Marquez of Stolas also recorded vocals for a song вЂ“ but when Medina heard the first mixes of the record with his vocals on it, he decided he didnвЂ™t want to release the record as it was. In October, after heвЂ™d finished tracking instruments, it was time for Medina to return to the studio to record vocals: without a vocalist in place, he stepped behind the mic, though it wasnвЂ™t easy to get started. вЂњI would take those home on my computer and kinda cut them up and make them a little different and then write a song,вЂќ he explains the plan was to have Joseph Arrington вЂ“ his long time bandmate in Sianvar and вЂњone of my favorite drummers of all timeвЂ¦ we really respect each other as musicians and we feed off each other really wellвЂќ вЂ“ come in and make the parts his own. When he was first putting songs together, Medina recorded using drum skeletons from former Stolas drummer Carlos Silva, as well as tracks another friend had sent. Last June, he found himself in a creative rut ready to dive back in to music and make something new happen, he spent вЂњabout a monthвЂќ flying back and forth between Las Vegas and New York, recording instrumentals for what was initially a solo record at VuDu Studios in Port Jefferson, NY. вЂњI have had that record in my back pocket since last July,вЂќ he explains, though itвЂ™s been a long process to get it to its current finished state. Medina has certainly been ready for the record to come out, and was sure to mention that a speedy roll-out for the record was intentional.

вЂњIs it already next Friday?,вЂќ he says with a laugh when the date was mentioned. When Substream speaks to Medina, there are eleven days to go until his new band Royal Coda will release their debut self-titled album he also works for Blue Swan Records and coordinated all of the details for the albumвЂ™s release.

Time tends to come at you quickly when thereвЂ™s a lot to get done, and in Sergio MedinaвЂ™s case, there certain has been.

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