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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Fast Feet
This doesn’t have so much to do with the recording or anything. It is more the result of being unable to get to sleep at a good hour lately. The song, Fast Feet, I wrote late last night and recorded … Continue reading
Ghost Town
It’s early days (the record is still to be mixed and then mastered) but listening to preliminary mixes from the studio, I think Ghost Town is the song that at this point seems to best capture the breadth of sound we were … Continue reading
Scatter Fire
Sophie trying to nut out a cello part for Eyes Under A Gun, and me doing everything I can to confuse the process.
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Carmen
Introducing Carmen. Carmen Pepper is a songwriter based in Mandurah, a coastal town south of Perth. I first met her years ago, playing a small bar gig somewhere. Honestly can’t remember where it was, it was really that long ago, but … Continue reading
Charades
On day three at Revolver, when most of the studio had deteriorated into a landfill of fast food wrappers, broken strings and stray guitars, and when most of us had begun to look more and more like the walking-dead, two … Continue reading
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Making Noise
Here’s a first little look at tracking in the studio. This was the third day we spent there, on the Friday, and when I got the bulk of vocals down. Carmen Pepper came in for a sing that afternoon too. … Continue reading
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Early Days
The first day in the studio was devoted to tracking drums, bass and rhythm guitars. The drum tracks had been a huge source of worry for me leading up to the recording. Plans I had made months earlier had been brought down by a … Continue reading
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Radio Silence
I had intended, for the purpose of this blog, to give a chronological account of the time spent in the studio, sitting down for a few hours each evening once done with the day’s session to write enlightening things, perhaps … Continue reading
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The Fisherman
One of the first songs I wrote for this record is called The Fisherman. A rather thinly-veiled tune about lost love, The Fisherman tells of a man who flees a town and a girl because he knows that although his … Continue reading
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