someday you will remember, and you will know, i promise.
sorry for the delay in studio blogging. that weekend was nuts, with the Deli show and 2 studio days, and i personally was distracted, most majestically, by a certain Danish visitor...........................songs tracked, 9/15-9/16 = Light Makes Shadows and Your Blood On My Hands. all live, in full takes, with no click track, no computer splicing, just playing the songs through until we hit it. took about 5-6 performances of each but we got 'em down good, particularly Your Blood, whose coda is probably the most psychedelic thing we've ever done.
these are looser, jammier songs, and thus lend themselves to sonic experimentation and general fucking-with, so really looking forward to that. we've got studio time booked every Tuesday in October, so its a good chunk of work coming up to get this shit into some sort of shape.
i came into this, as i usually do, with an obssessive personal overview of what direction and form the record should take, based on the songs and lyrics i had written and the general theme i was expounding on. since recording began however, i'm slowly letting go of these preconceptions and just allowing it to become what it will, based on circumstance and experimentation and more generally just seeing what works and what doesn't, and not being afraid to jettison ideas previously held to be sacrosanct in the interest of bettering the song/recording. and i listened to the 6 rough mixes i have on my iPod today and feel that this process is bearing fruit. i'm trying to be patient but i really just want to work and work and work.
the whole CMJ farce temporarily got me down about the bullshit and politics that go into ever having your music heard, and made me wonder about our chances of finding an audience, but then i realized that i just don't care. when we are in the practice space or in the studio, we just do whatever we want, and i hope we never abandon that way of doing things. and if "success" comes, in whatever meager form, i'll be glad, but for now i've got the blinders on and the songs to be worked on and a voice to take care of and a love to nurture and a guitar to mend and mind to tame and exhaustion to fight off and the long slow crawl back towards constructing a meaningful life.
so, i suppose in that context, the answer, to quote a certain little-known totally obscure singer-songwriter "oh well whatever nevermind."
do what you believe in and fuck everything else.
as for me, i'm content tonight with red wine, The Great Gatsby and memories of a lovely girl in my head...................
tomorrow?
posted by Khmer Rouge @ 11:50 PM
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