Rehearsals

Bad Bonn May 12

Sunday t-shirt

I’ve been doing some promo these last 2 weeks, it’s good to be back on tracks. Interesting questions on interviews, nice adrenaline because of live-on-air-bring-your-harmonica “paper cup” performances. And Couleur 3 making wordgames with my nickname, which is why we like them.
Plus a quiet sunday to rest.
Signé cat’s eye

Promo and live dates

Hi all,
Cool things are happening in the promo field. I’ll be on RSR La Première for an interview and a song live on Thu April 9, 19h-20h, on Radio Paradiso.
The cd has just been reviewed on Radio Fribourg, here’s the link to listen.
On the live field, we’ll open for Marissa Nadler at the Bad Bonn on tue May 12. There’ll be a fnac in-store free concert in Fribourg on Thu April 16, 18h.

Checkpoint guitars, Berlin

To be a guitar geek or not to be. Sacha Love’s loving vintage guitars. haha.

Jesus loves you

Berlin

Spending the week in Berlin, visiting among others Sacha, the guy I made my record with. He and Kassette are recording there, they partly converted their flat in a rec studio. You can see my (rec) bedroom on some of the photos

The cat on the radio

Cool cool cool I’ve just discovered that “paper cup” – track one on my album – made its debut on the national swiss radio DRS3! I’ve set up a mx3 page last week (the myspace of swiss medias) and it must have been listened by these guys. Thank you very much, I’m so happy about it! Good night all!

Web guru

This post is dedicated to my web guru, as he’s always helping me out online for my website. Le grand Serge, you rock my web!

Saturday

Wednesday: rehearsal day

I’m fucking delighted to play with my longtime best friends for the “cat’s eye tour” if I may call it like that. There are some gigs nearly confirmed. You’ll know when it is.
Anyway we’re already having fun rehearsing from early morning, even though I’ll bring some coffee next time.

Almost out

The record is almost ready for the factory. I can’t wait.  The musician/rec engineer I’ve worked with has yet to finalize the master.
Recording with him, this way, was definitively a cool ride.
No song (except a couple of items) was arranged before recording in the studio. The idea was thinking & arranging while recording. I was fed up with intellectualizing every note, line, performance.
We decided to play everything ourselves. Because this is how rock music works: our limits make our style. Because in the end we all use the same f chord progressions, instruments, gear. So we played guitars, keyboards, bass, drums (!well we tried to), laptop. We basically completed one song a day.  I’ve often finished lyrics behind the mic. It’s just crazy how you can be instictive when you work like that. Because at first I wondered if the lyrics would dramatically suffer from that.
So 10 days, 10 songs. But easily 15 days of mixing. And 5 masters. Mastering starting last september and modified when there was time to listen/write comments/think.

Track order

Track list… Looking for the right order for my record. I’m not sure, but it seems that I’ve found the “right” order. Do you also have this impression when you make for ex. mixtapes: there’s no objective rule but you know that in a certain order it works. Like it has to be like that, but you don’t really know why.