Recording: 'Hey you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - afternoon - P: Dude. Present: Val, Doreen, Julian.
Doing the basswork for "Hey you" and also for the ending of "Don't leave me now".
SATURDAY 29th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Run like hell' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 17:15 - 17:45 - P: Dude. Present: Val.
That afternoon I did all the guitars for "Run like hell", including the keyboard solo which I did on guitar.
Bag end studio - 17:15 - 17:45 - P: Dude. Present: Val.
That afternoon I did all the guitars for "Run like hell", including the keyboard solo which I did on guitar.
FRIDAY 28th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 1' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'The show must go on' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (take 1)
Recording: 'Hey you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'What shall we do now ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Is there anybody out there ?' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 10:00-12:00 - P: Dude.
My voice was back in shape, especially since the Sismeringa ICS session. So I managed to do more voices for this crazy project. I started by re-doing the voices for 'Another brick 1', and then I did all the voices for "Hey you", "Bring the boys back home", "What shall we do now?", the missing voice in "The happiest days of our lives", the "ooohs" in the transition with 'Another brick 2', the voices for 'Another brick 3', those for "Is there anybody out there?", and the second middle part of 'The show must go on'.
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'The show must go on' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (take 1)
Recording: 'Hey you' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'What shall we do now ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Is there anybody out there ?' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 10:00-12:00 - P: Dude.
My voice was back in shape, especially since the Sismeringa ICS session. So I managed to do more voices for this crazy project. I started by re-doing the voices for 'Another brick 1', and then I did all the voices for "Hey you", "Bring the boys back home", "What shall we do now?", the missing voice in "The happiest days of our lives", the "ooohs" in the transition with 'Another brick 2', the voices for 'Another brick 3', those for "Is there anybody out there?", and the second middle part of 'The show must go on'.
WEDNESDAY 26th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'What shall we do now ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - evening - P: Dude.
Doing some more guitars. All those into 'What shall we do now?" and creating a rock version of "Bring the boys back home".
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - evening - P: Dude.
Doing some more guitars. All those into 'What shall we do now?" and creating a rock version of "Bring the boys back home".
SUNDAY 23rd NOVEMBER 2008
Sismeringa Lodge - ICS session #1
Recording: 'Coming-out' (demo)
Recording: 'Orlando (part one)'
Recording: 'The poison'
Recording: 'Solarworld'
France 3 basement - 7:30-19:30 - P: Dude.
This is an incredible and intense experience: the very first ICS session I ever attended. ICS means Immersion Composition Society and has been created by Nicholas Dobson and Michael Mellender. I was intruced to this by Goubs, which created the Sismeringa Lodge. Other members of this Lodge are Stef, Vincent Tekal, Florian Valloo and Emy, flutist and painter.
I approached this first ICS session with two major objectives:
1. To absolutely respect the "immersion" aspect of the game.
2. To use only real instruments. No MIDI or programming of any kind for my stuff.
In order to achive objective #1, I choose to spend my 12 hours locked up in a basement room without windows (at my workplace), without my dear wife and kids in attendance, and without anyone to talk to except for a huge amount of various candy, chocolate, crisps bags, etc... I also brought with me a drumkit, an acoustic and an electric guitar, a cheap bass and a keyboard locked on a "grand piano" setting. I brought all these equipements the day before, so that on the morning of the session I would start creating music as soon as I enter the room.
I stayed there for 12 hours, working and eating small portions of stuff basically at the same time, and I went out only to satisfy urgent natural needs. So I guess I passed the "immersion" test quite well.
During the day I went thru different states of mind, starting with "struggle and fear of the passing time", then "exhaustion", then "okay that's fine now I'm rolling. Just watch me create !" and then "frustration" as I was leaving the place. The good thing though is the last feelings of the day, the ones you get in the middle of the evening when gathering with the other members of the Lodge: joy, peace with oneself and happiness of having done something you really wanted to do.
One of the funny thing related to the ICS way of doing things, is the fact that none of the stuff I thought I would be doing ever happened at all ! For example, I had envisioned myself doing a whole lot of different music genre, from pop songs to experimental weird pieces. I also thought I would be a hero coming up with 15 songs at the end of the day ! Ha ha !!! Good joke. I hardly came up with 4 songs, only 13 minutes of music, and all four being plain pop/rock songs !!! What happened to my dark strange music ambition ? Don't know. I guess there's a kind of magic powers going on at an ICS session: it was almost as if the songs went on as they wanted to appear, not as I wanted them to be. Strange beasties, those songs.
Anyway, that certainly was true of the first composition I wrote that day. (Let me go into details of each recording, if you please. Since you've read that far, I guess you're not easily subject to boreness).
I wanted to start this session softly, with a classy piano/voice tune. I thought it would be cool and smart not to show off right away, but to build things up smoothly. A piano/voice piece, and then something with more instruments, etc....
So I sat at the "piano" and started a new song from scratch, only to find myself 13 measures later stuck in an epic kind-of-british-pop-rock-anthem-thing, complete with hard drums, raging bass, powerful-wanna-be-voices and loud guitars !!
That song took me forever to complete ! I was still on it at 1:00 p.m. (the session started at 7:30 a.m.). That's when I started to feel anxious about the clock keeping on moving forward. Every other note I was looking at the time to see how much has went by. Not a good way to live a session, I guess, but hey... I was new at that game, wasn't I ? I also think this piece of music I was writing was maybe too ambitious. I had to do more simple stuff for the rest of the day. Anyway, I managed to bring the song to completion no matter what, and I'm very proud of it (although it is at times a bit too much one the "radio friendly" side - but as I said, the songs wrote themselves. I couldn't have very much input into them). This song is called "Coming-out", and you can hear it on the Sismeringa Myspace page. (for an unknow reason, MySpace wouldn't let me have a "-" into my song title, so it's named "Coming out" there. But it's supposed to be in one word).
After that, considering that I almost spend half of the session on this one song only, I decided to a simpler song. So came "Orlando - part one", a simple little rock song, about a character which is a skinny guy with a light mustache that thinks he is a very cool guy apreciated by everyone, but is in fact a pathetic loser. The song is kind of jumpy, and it has a funny noise-oriented middle-8, which finally became the ending of the song (hence the "part one" mention in the title). I'm thinking about doing the following parts during the next ICS sessions. This one came quite rapidly, the longest time being spent on the writing of the lyrics. (God, writing lyrics is certainly the drag moment of these ICS sessions. I must admit I tried not to spend too much time on them so they're just ideas being thrown in on the fly, without too much thinking about meaning, coolness or whatever. The problem is that while it does absolutely no harm to my fellow french-speaking friends of the lodge, it certainly would make you native-englishers have a good laugh. (not to mention my french accent that certainly shows off in my singing. Sorry about that.)
Did I mention that Orlando works in a Casino ?
Let's go to song number 3.
In order to twist things a little in my little private creation session, I decided to do the next song very simply. I wanted no overdubs or arrangement, only on an acoustic guitar with a voice, being recorded at the same time, with one mike lying on the table. I was looking for cheapness, and that's what I got. I used a very tired acoustic guitar for this thing, which I called "The poison", with creepy and not-so-joyful lyrics (which I wrote prior to the music, contrary to the 3 other songs in that session).
After that I had the feeling the hard times of this session were over: I felt very confident, I was suddenly creating and recording very very fast. As soon as I envisioned an idea, a musical section in my head, I would commit it to hard drive very rapidly, switching on and on to the drum chair, the guitar, the bass, adding some backing vocals here and there, sometime even switching instruments within the same measure, just to make sure I would not forget the parts.
Those were the best, happiest moments of the session. Those last three hours were pure joy, euphoria of doing THE ultimate thing: creating and recording music, nothing else even existed. I've been alone in this room for decades, and I was in full "music" mode. This feeling alone is what made the whole ICS thing worth it, for me. Kuddos to the Fathers of ICS !
I finished the fourth and last song just on time. I had 30 minutes left to do pre-mixes of the tracks for the "gathering of the Lords". I called this last song "Solarworld".
Although I'm a man of many various music styles and although I'm fond of what is sometimes called "difficult music", there's a baba-cool hippy living somewhere inside of me and I think that for "Solarworld" I allowed him to come forward and drive things up. So this song is probably the most "twee" and naive stuff I've ever made. Nethertheless, it is my personnal favorite track of the four, because of the cheer joyfulness and "automatic pilot" feeling I experienced while making it. (you can hear the song on my MySpace page).
When I left the basement room in order to go to the meeting (which was an hour drive away), I was feeling very frustrated and disapointed. I thought that 4 songs was a dreadful performance, and that I would be laughed at and mocked for my "pop songs" music.
But when I arrived, I was surprised to learn that each one of us has managed to write only 4 or 5 songs, making 12 or 13 minutes of music !
I was totally in the norm. And some of my "pop songs" seem to have made a good impression on some Lodge members, so I don't feel frustrated anymore. (although my Lodge mates have made more mad and crazier music than me. Mad and beautiful actually. You have to check them out !).
Many days have passed since this session, and I'm still thinking about it very strongly. I can't seem to get my head of this thing and it has marked me very deeply. It's almost as if there is now a "Before ICS" and an "After ICS" period in my life.
For my part I look forward to our next ICS Session (december 21st).
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FRIDAY 21st NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Goodbye blue sky' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 21:00-22:30 - P: Dude. Present: Val.
All bass work for tonight. I think I finished all the bass for the first record. Yeeah !
Recording: 'Goodbye blue sky' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 21:00-22:30 - P: Dude. Present: Val.
All bass work for tonight. I think I finished all the bass for the first record. Yeeah !
THURSDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 1' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Outside the wall' (take 1)
Recording: 'The show must go on' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - morning - P: Dude.
That morning I did the toy accordion for "Outside the wall", and the bass to "Another brick - 2". I also did all guitars and basses for "In the flesh ?", and that was really fun to do.
Recording: 'Outside the wall' (take 1)
Recording: 'The show must go on' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - morning - P: Dude.
That morning I did the toy accordion for "Outside the wall", and the bass to "Another brick - 2". I also did all guitars and basses for "In the flesh ?", and that was really fun to do.
WEDNESDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'What shall we do now ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - 22:30-8:30 - P: Dude.
Adding bass to "What shall we do now?", and also to the first part of "Mother".
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Bag-end studio - 22:30-8:30 - P: Dude.
Adding bass to "What shall we do now?", and also to the first part of "Mother".
SUNDAY 16th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'What shall we do now ?' (take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Run like hell' (SI on take 1)
France 3 basement - 7:30-8:30 - P: Dude.
Happy birthday to me ! :)
This morning, just like the previous Sunday morning, I went early to work in order to record some drums. I did all the remaining stuff that has to be done on "The wall": drums for "What shall we do now?", 3 rototoms for the midlle of "Happiest days/Brick part 2", and the cymbal crescendos for "Run like hell". A nice touch.
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Run like hell' (SI on take 1)
France 3 basement - 7:30-8:30 - P: Dude.
Happy birthday to me ! :)
This morning, just like the previous Sunday morning, I went early to work in order to record some drums. I did all the remaining stuff that has to be done on "The wall": drums for "What shall we do now?", 3 rototoms for the midlle of "Happiest days/Brick part 2", and the cymbal crescendos for "Run like hell". A nice touch.
SATURDAY 15th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 1' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Hey you' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 23:00-23:30 - P: Dude.
Very late in the evening I did the remaining guitars for "Another brick 1", and I tried the arpeggios for "Hey you", but I was very tired.
Recording: 'Hey you' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 23:00-23:30 - P: Dude.
Very late in the evening I did the remaining guitars for "Another brick 1", and I tried the arpeggios for "Hey you", but I was very tired.
FRIDAY 14th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 1' (take 1)
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 13:00-15:00 - P: Dude.
I could not sing anymore ! I suffered of a severe soar thoat. So I concentrated only on instruments or very soft voices. I did "Another brick in the wall - part 1", and I sang the "Waiting" parts in "Waiting for the worms". And then I did the piano for "Don't leave me now".
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 13:00-15:00 - P: Dude.
I could not sing anymore ! I suffered of a severe soar thoat. So I concentrated only on instruments or very soft voices. I did "Another brick in the wall - part 1", and I sang the "Waiting" parts in "Waiting for the worms". And then I did the piano for "Don't leave me now".
THURSDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Vera' (take 1)
Recording: 'Nobody home' (take 1)
Recording: 'Is there anybody out there ?' (take 1)
Recording: 'Goodbye blue sky' (take 1)
Recording: 'Goodbye cruel world' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 09:30-15:00 - P: Dude.
Another day of recording in a row. Great. I focused mainly on acoustic guitars and quiet vocals. I did "Vera" and "Nobody home" (guitar and voice), and also "Goodbye blue sky" (with two guitars and three voices). I did also the guitar piece in "Is there anybody out there ?". I then did the singing for the soft parts of "The happiest days of our lives" and "Another brick -part 3", which I segued with "Goodbye cruel world". I did Gilmour's voice for "Waiting for the worms". And then I tried to do "Young lust" and altough my throat was suffering, it even helped me getting a raw voice and I think I did a terrific job on that one. Finally, I closed the session by doing the judge voice in the final section of 'The trial'. I did the trick with a fantastic feature of Reaper: the speed slide which works also thru recording.
Recording: 'Nobody home' (take 1)
Recording: 'Is there anybody out there ?' (take 1)
Recording: 'Goodbye blue sky' (take 1)
Recording: 'Goodbye cruel world' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial' (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 09:30-15:00 - P: Dude.
Another day of recording in a row. Great. I focused mainly on acoustic guitars and quiet vocals. I did "Vera" and "Nobody home" (guitar and voice), and also "Goodbye blue sky" (with two guitars and three voices). I did also the guitar piece in "Is there anybody out there ?". I then did the singing for the soft parts of "The happiest days of our lives" and "Another brick -part 3", which I segued with "Goodbye cruel world". I did Gilmour's voice for "Waiting for the worms". And then I tried to do "Young lust" and altough my throat was suffering, it even helped me getting a raw voice and I think I did a terrific job on that one. Finally, I closed the session by doing the judge voice in the final section of 'The trial'. I did the trick with a fantastic feature of Reaper: the speed slide which works also thru recording.
WEDNESDAY 12th NOVEMBER
Recording: 'Empty spaces' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Wainting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 19:30-22:00 - P: Dude.
I had a lot to do during the day so I only could record in the evening.
I did all the missing guitars for "Empty spaces" and "Young lust". Then I did all bass and guitars for "Another brick - part 3", "Wainting for the worm" and the last section of "The trial". Now I'm exhausted and kinda fed-up with the whole Wall project.
But I'll keep doing it until it's finished! :)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Wainting for the worms' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial (SI on take 1)
Bag end studio - 19:30-22:00 - P: Dude.
I had a lot to do during the day so I only could record in the evening.
I did all the missing guitars for "Empty spaces" and "Young lust". Then I did all bass and guitars for "Another brick - part 3", "Wainting for the worm" and the last section of "The trial". Now I'm exhausted and kinda fed-up with the whole Wall project.
But I'll keep doing it until it's finished! :)
TUESDAY 11th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Time' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Run like hell' (take 1)
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (SI take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI take 1)
Bag end studio - 09:30-18:00 - P: Dude.
Another day full of work. Only basses and guitars today, but a lot of them. I started with the main rythm guitar for 'Time', and then I delightfully did the solo. I did all the guitars and bass of 'The happiest days of our lives' segued into 'Another brick - part 2'. And since the bass was in drop D tuning, I did the bassline of 'Run like hell'. Then I added bass to 'Empty spaces' and 'Young lust'. very fun to do that last one.
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Run like hell' (take 1)
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (SI take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (SI take 1)
Bag end studio - 09:30-18:00 - P: Dude.
Another day full of work. Only basses and guitars today, but a lot of them. I started with the main rythm guitar for 'Time', and then I delightfully did the solo. I did all the guitars and bass of 'The happiest days of our lives' segued into 'Another brick - part 2'. And since the bass was in drop D tuning, I did the bassline of 'Run like hell'. Then I added bass to 'Empty spaces' and 'Young lust'. very fun to do that last one.
MONDAY 10th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Time' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 2)
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial' (take 1)
Bag end studio - 10:00-17:00 - P: Dude.
Now it was time to exploit all the drumwork of the previous day. So I started by lying down the bass for 'Time', alone with one guitar (the one that's supposed to play Rick Wright's part). And then I did the bass for 'The thin ice'. Then I needed to warm my voice up, so I did the first part of 'One of my turns', and then the choirs for the two 'In the flesh'. I then did the choir for 'Time' and then all the vocals. I then switched to 'Mother' which got its piano track. Mixing is going to be hazardous because I found out the piano was in 442, while all my guitars are 440 ! Please note that this is the first time in my life that I do a complete song with piano added AFTER the other instruments, on the same track.
And while I was at the piano, I did 'The trial', and after that I also did all the vocals for that one. As I said to Yann: a very constructive day of recording. I finished this part of work by adding the two loud sentences in the vocal part of 'Mother'.
And guess what ? More are on the way this week :)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 2)
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The trial' (take 1)
Bag end studio - 10:00-17:00 - P: Dude.
Now it was time to exploit all the drumwork of the previous day. So I started by lying down the bass for 'Time', alone with one guitar (the one that's supposed to play Rick Wright's part). And then I did the bass for 'The thin ice'. Then I needed to warm my voice up, so I did the first part of 'One of my turns', and then the choirs for the two 'In the flesh'. I then did the choir for 'Time' and then all the vocals. I then switched to 'Mother' which got its piano track. Mixing is going to be hazardous because I found out the piano was in 442, while all my guitars are 440 ! Please note that this is the first time in my life that I do a complete song with piano added AFTER the other instruments, on the same track.
And while I was at the piano, I did 'The trial', and after that I also did all the vocals for that one. As I said to Yann: a very constructive day of recording. I finished this part of work by adding the two loud sentences in the vocal part of 'Mother'.
And guess what ? More are on the way this week :)
SUNDAY 9th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Time' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 2)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (take 1)
Recording: 'Hey you' (take 1)
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Run like hell' (take 1)
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (take 1)
France 3 basement - 07:30-09:30 - P: Dude.
I must be out of my mind.
This Sunday morning, instead of staying in bed, I deliberatly woke up at 6 in the morning, in order to go to my workplace to record some drums for my "Wall" project, before my scheduled day of work. In two hours I managed to do something like 15 or 16 songs ! So not only did this session allowed me to go forward with this project, but it was also a nice warm-up for the Sismeringa session of November 23. I can now safely state that I'm quite confident about my ability to record some drums that day. And for the first time in my life, I tried to do a proper drum recording (i.e. with more than one mike). I used... three mikes :) I put one into the bass drum, one behind me pointing to the space between the bass drum and the snare, and one overhead slightly strafed, in order to get a kind of a stereo picture.
Once I got the gear installed and ready (which was ridculously fast - how powerful one can be when he decides to do something...), I dived into recording and drumming mode, and did all those songs in a row, mostly in one take each. After all that, I felt quite dizzy and tired. I wonder how I'll feel after the 12 hour session of November 23.
Recording: 'In the flesh ?' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'The happiest days of our lives' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 2' (SI on take 1)'
Recording: 'Mother' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Empty spaces ' (take 1)
Recording: 'Young lust' (take 1)
Recording: 'One of my turns' (SI on take 2)
Recording: 'Don't leave me now' (take 1)
Recording: 'Another brick in the wall - part 3' (take 1)
Recording: 'Hey you' (take 1)
Recording: 'Bring the boys back home' (take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'Run like hell' (take 1)
Recording: 'Waiting for the worms' (take 1)
France 3 basement - 07:30-09:30 - P: Dude.
I must be out of my mind.
This Sunday morning, instead of staying in bed, I deliberatly woke up at 6 in the morning, in order to go to my workplace to record some drums for my "Wall" project, before my scheduled day of work. In two hours I managed to do something like 15 or 16 songs ! So not only did this session allowed me to go forward with this project, but it was also a nice warm-up for the Sismeringa session of November 23. I can now safely state that I'm quite confident about my ability to record some drums that day. And for the first time in my life, I tried to do a proper drum recording (i.e. with more than one mike). I used... three mikes :) I put one into the bass drum, one behind me pointing to the space between the bass drum and the snare, and one overhead slightly strafed, in order to get a kind of a stereo picture.
Once I got the gear installed and ready (which was ridculously fast - how powerful one can be when he decides to do something...), I dived into recording and drumming mode, and did all those songs in a row, mostly in one take each. After all that, I felt quite dizzy and tired. I wonder how I'll feel after the 12 hour session of November 23.
SATURDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'One of my turns' (take 2)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.
Commiting to Reaper the clean electric guitar I planned for the first part of the song.
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.
Commiting to Reaper the clean electric guitar I planned for the first part of the song.
FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'Stop' (take 1)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh?' (take 1)
Recording: 'Mother' (take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.
More The Wall stuff ! :)
Adding some piano to 'The thin ice', and doing 'Stop' in the process (piano + voice). Then I added some vocals to 'The thin ice', did all the lead vocals for the two 'In flesh', and starting 'Mother' with two accoustic guitars, and all the vocals. Cool.
Recording: 'The thin ice' (SI on take 1)
Recording: 'In the flesh?' (take 1)
Recording: 'Mother' (take 1)
Bag-end studio - morning - P: Dude.
More The Wall stuff ! :)
Adding some piano to 'The thin ice', and doing 'Stop' in the process (piano + voice). Then I added some vocals to 'The thin ice', did all the lead vocals for the two 'In flesh', and starting 'Mother' with two accoustic guitars, and all the vocals. Cool.
THURSDAY 6th NOVEMBER 2008
Recording: 'In the flesh?' (take 1)
Recording: 'The thin ice' (take 1)
Bag-end studio - 22:00-00:00 - P: Dude.
I just got my new laptop computer (the MetalHero one, a real cool looking piece of a beast of a computer), so I could resume music making activities. There's a guy called Pat on Ysn that had posted a really cool cover of "Breathe", so I had to do some floyd covers, just to show them that he's not the only one on the scene ! lol. So I decided I'll be doing "Time" (I wanna be the first to publish this guitar solo on Ysn), and also the whole Wall album, just by myself, because hey.... ...I'm me, right ?
Add to that the fact that November 23 (which is the date set for the first Sismeringa Lodge reunion) is coming up fast, I have to be ready, both gearly and humanly. So these Floyd challenges will help me keeping my stuff up to date.
So tonight I did some very simple, but beautiful, stuff: the arpeggio guitar in "In the flesh?", and the soft first part of "The thin ice". For 'In the flesh?' I did two guitars, one low and one high, and for 'The thin ice' I did the main clean guitar and the bass. Later I'll be doing drums so that I'll be able to finish those two songs.
Recording: 'The thin ice' (take 1)
Bag-end studio - 22:00-00:00 - P: Dude.
I just got my new laptop computer (the MetalHero one, a real cool looking piece of a beast of a computer), so I could resume music making activities. There's a guy called Pat on Ysn that had posted a really cool cover of "Breathe", so I had to do some floyd covers, just to show them that he's not the only one on the scene ! lol. So I decided I'll be doing "Time" (I wanna be the first to publish this guitar solo on Ysn), and also the whole Wall album, just by myself, because hey.... ...I'm me, right ?
Add to that the fact that November 23 (which is the date set for the first Sismeringa Lodge reunion) is coming up fast, I have to be ready, both gearly and humanly. So these Floyd challenges will help me keeping my stuff up to date.
So tonight I did some very simple, but beautiful, stuff: the arpeggio guitar in "In the flesh?", and the soft first part of "The thin ice". For 'In the flesh?' I did two guitars, one low and one high, and for 'The thin ice' I did the main clean guitar and the bass. Later I'll be doing drums so that I'll be able to finish those two songs.
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