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.

Record

Cool cool cool I’ve just received the (nearly final) mastering of my record. I can’t wait to send it to the cd factory. I’ve been waiting for so long. I can’t wait to have the record in my hands, we’ve been working so much on it. When we have the physical cd I’ll probably have the feeling that the record is “really born”, if that makes any sense to you.