Saturday, June 4
Day 1: We don't do click tracks
We're on a roll, entering the maze as rugged journeymen of music. After the first day of recording with Micke, we've sorted out the drum sounds, and base sounds great too. Setting up stuff always takes longer than you'd want it to, but Micke knows his stuff and Anders Tibbling (our artistic coach) also has a keen ear for these sort of things. Working with professionals is a real treat.
Labyrinth situated on the island of Norsten
Then there was the issue of the clicks, or er..uh...cowbells, of rimshots from a drummachine. Well, whatever they were they didn't work for us. Thomas had a stressfull time trying to keepå up with the relentless strive of the QY10 and got more sweaty for every take. In the end, we cancelled it out. Relying on drummerboy's inner clock, we set the drum & baselines in for two tracks in the equal amount of hours. Praize for the young man from Heby - great stuff Jan Banan too.
Rob said he had popcorn in his bloodstream today, and the others - myself included - were full of anticipating to get going. So tomorrow Sunday, is another big day where we hope to get as far as setting most of the drums. Sure, it would be great if we could set all the drums in one weekend, but rather get it right than rush it. Unfortunately, we are unable to reviel what is cooking in the Täby studio, 'cause it would spoil the suspension for the result after the final mixdown. But no doubt we got something special here, both with telltales to what we listen to ourselves and yet parts and voicings never heard before, a kind of unique melange based on Robert's creative idea.
Tomorrow, JP from ArtPerformance will come check us out. I can just imagine he too will get all psyked up from what we have in store for this album. It's been two years since we began toying with the embryo for this album, and sometimes you can't see your own brainchild grow, since you deal with it each and every week. Then meeting someone saying 'oh, how she has grown since I last saw her'. Well, there you go - it takes fresh eared stranger to know whether there is something in there or not.
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Labyrinth situated on the island of Norsten
Then there was the issue of the clicks, or er..uh...cowbells, of rimshots from a drummachine. Well, whatever they were they didn't work for us. Thomas had a stressfull time trying to keepå up with the relentless strive of the QY10 and got more sweaty for every take. In the end, we cancelled it out. Relying on drummerboy's inner clock, we set the drum & baselines in for two tracks in the equal amount of hours. Praize for the young man from Heby - great stuff Jan Banan too.
Rob said he had popcorn in his bloodstream today, and the others - myself included - were full of anticipating to get going. So tomorrow Sunday, is another big day where we hope to get as far as setting most of the drums. Sure, it would be great if we could set all the drums in one weekend, but rather get it right than rush it. Unfortunately, we are unable to reviel what is cooking in the Täby studio, 'cause it would spoil the suspension for the result after the final mixdown. But no doubt we got something special here, both with telltales to what we listen to ourselves and yet parts and voicings never heard before, a kind of unique melange based on Robert's creative idea.
Tomorrow, JP from ArtPerformance will come check us out. I can just imagine he too will get all psyked up from what we have in store for this album. It's been two years since we began toying with the embryo for this album, and sometimes you can't see your own brainchild grow, since you deal with it each and every week. Then meeting someone saying 'oh, how she has grown since I last saw her'. Well, there you go - it takes fresh eared stranger to know whether there is something in there or not.
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