2012 februar
27. februar 2012
I’ve gathered a few of the photos so far – from the writing process and the first days in the studio.
Check it out via Facebook here.
25. februar 2012
At the beginning of the day I felt like this:
It’s always the same. The first day is long and somewhat edgy. You’re in the studio watching everyone set up and do their sound, have endless technical problems, discuss backwards and forwards, settle in and take their time. It can take forever and often nothing is recorded on the first day.
Yesterday was different, though. Now the studio is at my house so I could potter about in my own world and stay away from the technical issues; all the adjusting, examining, wiring, knob-twisting.
At 18 they were ready for me and after fiddling with my sound for a bit, we put down a song. Like it was the easiest thing in the world.
I know it’s not gonna keep being this easy but for now I’m so happy. So excited!
Now that the first day is over and we’re done with all the setup stuff, we’re ready for anything…
22. februar 2012
As always there’s bound to be one stupid thing in way of everything running smoothly.
This time it’s a cable. One big, fat cable that was meant to have arrived from Germany as this kind of cable can’t be bought here on this island.
We can get by without it, I’m promised – but not really. The atmosphere this morning is tense and a fair amount of swear words have been beamed in the direction of a certain German company.
22. februar 2012
Woke up with a faint taste of blood in my mouth this morning.
It’s getting serious!
I have one last day to get ready before we go from the innitial writing / studio building phase to the next: recording!
That’s when the first important decisions are made, tracks are locked down, the songs will start to find their final form and sound.
I’ve never been LESS prepared to go into the studio!
But that’s a good thing. It’s deliberate. I’m excited about it!
A new and freer approach.
If you go into the studio with 15 tightly written songs, you’ll sometimes struggle with the exercise of pushing music and arrangements onto the song. There’ll be lots of situations where the music (and the musicians even more so) wants to go off in one direction but the song is saying “Hey, get back here!” It’s not the most musical way to do it.
We have an American bass player arriving in Iceland tomorrow and then about a week to lay down drums and bass and whatever else we feel like.
I can’t wait to hear some of these songs with amazing musicians on them.
Imagine… so far it’s just rough sketches on the “memo” app on my phone and suddenly it’ll sound like real music, with depth, size, nuances, dynamics, heart, soul, sweat.
I hope I’m gonna get completely lost in it this time. Let the control freak take the week off and let the guys’ sublime musicianship take the music where it wants to go. I think I’m ready to leave my comfort zone…
20. februar 2012
The production’s first strand of grey head hair has been found and picked so as to not spread to the surrounding area.
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