TUESDAY 29th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Getting closer' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - evening - P: Dude.

Doing all the guitar work for 'getting closer'.

SUNDAY 27th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Wreck of the hesperus' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Getting closer' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' (take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

A whole afternoon dedicated to the bass. First , I put some basswork on David's 'Wreck of the hesperus'. It's been quiet a challenge, since David is a little bit tuned lower as my guitars usually are, so I had to retune my bass for this number. Also, the tempo is getting faster as the song goes on, so I had to concentrate to match it. Then I added bass to my own 'Getting closer', and I started a new cover from scratch: the famous 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'.

TUESDAY 24th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'I'll get you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Single pigeon' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

That day I did the vocals for 'I'll get you' and 'Single pigeon'.

SUNDAY 20th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'I'll get you' (take 1)
France 3 basement - afternoon - P: Dude.

Recording my piano version of 'I'll get you'.

SATURDAY 19th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Wreck of the hesperus' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'White queen (as it begun)' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Le Mi cadeau' (take 1)
France 3 basement - afternoon - P: Dude.

Some drums has been added to 'Wreck of the hesperus' and 'White queen'. I also did a drum take for "Le Mi cadeau", the 3rd episode of my experimental series for YSn.

THURSDAY 17th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Le Ré pulsion' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Adding three takes of mad vocals for 'Le Ré pulsion', and also some weird objects sounds.

WEDNESDAY 16th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Le Do rit fort'
Recording: 'Iron man' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Le Ré pulsion' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

I decided to create a suite of 7 strange weird audio pieces, and to put them on YSn. For each one I invented a title with a pun, each one containing the name of a note. I did the complete first piece: two tracks of bass strings scrapped with a pick, one track of acoutic guitar playing variations around a Cmajor chord, and one track of electric guitar laughing out loud. The whole with was then heavily treated, and published as is, having been previously reversed backwards :)
'Iron man' was another instrumental by Maxsilham from Ysn, onto wich I added vocals. I took a blast trying to reproduced the metallic voice of the intro of the song. I think I pulled it out.
Finally, I started to lay down some basics for the 2nd movement of my little mini-series: 'Le Ré pulsion'. This time I used one track of djembé, and one track of finger cymbals.

THURSDAY 10th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Getting closer' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Instant karma!' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Beware my love' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - morning - P: Dude.
Recording: 'We love you' (take 1)
Recording: 'Dandelion' (take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

The morning session was only vocals. I added backing to 'Getting closer', I did the lead for 'Instant karma!', and all the intro voices for 'Beware my love'. In the afternoon, I did from top to bottom 'We love you' and 'Dandelion'.

WEDNESDAY 9th MARCH 2005

Day Ninety-three for the album
Recording: 'Young and free' (take 1)

The Lion's Den - 20:30-21:30 - P: Dude.

We started working on 'Young and free'. All the guitars and the bass for the 2nd section of the tune.

MONDAY 8th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Yes it is' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Getting closer' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

An all-vocal session. I added two backing tracks to 'Yes it is', and one lead vocal for 'Getting closer'.

SATURDAY 5th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'She said she said' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon - P: Dude.

Doing the bassline for 'She said she said'.

FRIDAY 4th MARCH 2005

Recording: 'Wreck of the hesperus' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'White queen (as it begun)' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'She said she said' (SI on take 1)
One-eyed Jack - afternoon + evening - P: Dude.

I did my small vocal contribution to David's backing track for 'Wreck': the ponctuating "But it's alright ...." lines. I also did all the voices for the wonderful cover Maxsilham did of 'White queen'. Then I switched to 'She said she said' which got his first lead vocal part. At night, I did the two guitars for 'She said she said'.