The Ocean Way Sessions Tracklist
The Ocean Way Sessions is Christina Perri’s debut EP and first official release from her signing with Atlantic Records, following her success with “Jar of Hearts”. Recorded on the evening of October 6th 2010 at the Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles, Perri describes the album as “…Raw and bluesy and heartfelt and bold”, and her inspiration deriving from “Mainly love – falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it”.
All songs – with the exception of “Jar of Hearts'” solo performance – are performed with a full band. Three tracks reappeared as remastered studio recordings on her debut album, Lovestrong (“Bang Bang Bang”, “Tragedy”, and “Jar of Hearts”), with “Black + Blue” included in the deluxe edition.
“The Ocean Way Sessions” Q&A
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What was it like recording at the Ocean Way Studios?
In an interview with Seattle Pi, Christina said:
Well, the EP is a really magical thing because Ocean Way Studios is really prestigious and really just a big deal out here in L.A. and in the musician world. So for me to be able to do the EP at Ocean Way, it was like a dream. We basically went in there for like five hours. I think we started at 5:00 PM and ended around 10:00 PM. And we just did the songs in one take. It was me and my band. We had only known each other a month and had only rehearsed six times before we did that. We have a really nice relationship and we just nailed it. We just knocked it out and did a couple of takes. We took one of the whole takes and we moved on. We knew we only had that amount of time. I did make a video of the whole performance we were filming, so there’s going to be video content that goes with that audio content, and that will be really exciting.
