Eclectric (Svoy album)

Eclectric is the first solo album by Svoy. It was originally released independently on December 13, 2005 on Svoy's Sixteenth Republic Records and later licensed, remastered, re-packaged and re-released May 1, 2007 by Rendezvous Entertainment/Universal Music Group to generally positive critical reviews. After Rendezvous' acquisition by Mack Avenue Records in August 2008, the album became part of the Mack Avenue/Sony Music Entertainment catalogue. As an import, the record gained substantial popularity in Japan and on July 8, 2009, was released by Tokyo-based Thistime Records as a 2-CD set featuring two bonus tracks on the first CD and Svoy's Consequence EP 1.0 on the second. Japan edition also featured new booklet with revised extended artwork and a separate slip with biography and lyrics translated into Japanese. In 2012, the master license to both Rendezvous/Mack Avenue and Thistime Records expired with the sound recording rights to the album reverting to Svoy. After a brief confrontation with the labels to cease distributing the album, Svoy remastered and re-released Eclectric internationally in the fall of the same year.

Svoy says, “Eclectric is pretty much a collection of demo versions”, some songs that he fiddled around with in a laptop-based home studio at Berklee, while still learning how to produce, write songs and do initial attempts in singing. “I did an amateurish self-release, that Rendezvous wanted to put out just the way it was. I could not say no, since at the time I simply had no other original song material, but to miss out on a record deal opportunity wasn’t an option. So you get to hear me at some extremely early stages – sometimes it’s so raw that it makes no sense at all, but it is what it is and I don’t care, that’s how I learned!”, he laughs. The record, however, changed Svoy’s life in multiple major ways: among those was signing a major publishing deal with Universal Music Group.

Personnel

 * Svoy – keyboards, vocals, producer, programming, vocal arrangement, sound engineering, mixing, mastering (track 13, 14; 2012 remastered version), artwork revision (Japan edition; 2012 version)
 * Myles D'Marco – guitar (track 7)
 * A-ux – co-production (track 8)
 * Steve Fallone – mastering
 * Daichi Miyata – co-production (track 13)
 * Shoshannah White – photography
 * Kevin Reagan – art direction, design, photography, collages
 * Lauren Taylor – design, collages, photography
 * Dave Koz – executive producer
 * Frank Cody – executive producer
 * Hyman Katz – executive producer
 * Jeff Chiang – product manager