Review Fix Exclusive: Sarah Charness Talks ‘We Came to Party’ and More

Review Fix chats with electric violinist Sarah Charness who discusses her new singles, “Grip” and “We Came to Party,” as well as her collaboration with Jem Cooke.

Review Fix: What inspires you musically?

Sarah Charness: I gain my inspiration both from different artists and from life experience. I was introduced to the electric violin by Mark Wood, who also is the maker of my instrument. When I was just 16 years old, I purchased the instrument that I now play today and so much of that also influenced my musical style. Furthermore, I started diving into electronic beats and figuring how the violin could fit in.

Review Fix: How was “We Came to Party” written? Is there a story behind it?

Charness: Yes. I was introduced to Disco Killerz by a mutual friend and we started playing around with a few ideas. It was difficult because they had never really worked with a violinist before and neither of us was quite sure how to go about making a full on electro house beat featuring my instrument. Uri, a member of Disco Killerz and I started playing around with this old Russian Folk Tune that later became the main theme in We Came to Party

Review Fix: What attracted you to the electric violin?

Charness: The main attraction for me was the ability to bring the instrument into a non-classical genre in a much easier way. The acoustic violin is beautiful of course but it doesn’t translate as well in terms of big EDM shows.

Review Fix: What was it like to work with Jem Cooke?

Charness: She was absolutely lovely. She is from the UK and just an incredible talent. Everything with her was so easy and her voice is stunning.

Review Fix: What’s on your musical bucket list?

Charness: More collaborations for sure! I would love to collab with some bigger DJs.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Charness: Definitely to write more music, play more shows, and just keep doing what I’m doing. I’m so lucky to be doing this.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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