Writing Writing Writing

Karolina's in Greece, and despite my best intentions I haven't managed to use the "alone time" to get on with some writing. No matter how much I achieve, the ability to sit down and put my lyrical, rhythmic and harmonic thoughts into a 3-5 minute unit escapes me. I am very good and I enjoy co-writing, I am able to turn a good song into a great song through giving someone some constructive criticism and suggesting different chords melodies etc. but clearly I over think my own efforts.

To this end, I’m trying to be really methodical about writing. I constantly write down lyric snippets, chords snippets, etc. but I’m now trying to put them together base on themes. Essentially I´m writing 12 songs at the same time… I never make it easy on myself. We’ll see how it goes.

CD´s on CD Baby

I sent 5 CD's for Sandra and 5 CD's for Tamira to CDbaby. You can now buy physical CD's at the links below:

The Cd's are available for $9.99, of this the artist gets $4 I think. It cost me roughly a dollar a piece to send the Cd's so financially it's not a great distribution method, but as with everything I do, it's a bit of an experiment and we'll see how things work out. 

Open Mike July with N.F.S.

We had a great Open Mike last night. I think we've now being doing them for a year, and it was Fraser, Sandra and I for the first time in while definitely the first time this year. As usual we were ably assisted by Javier and several other friends. So many people wanted a spot on the stage that we were turning people away. Andy from the Stun was there so there is a write up and photos here.

Anatomy of a heart - Finished

After a long long weekend of listening to final mixes and
correcting last minute errors, we’ve finally finished Tamira’s CD.
It was a much more ambitious effort than Sandra’s CD’s. We
included drums, electric guitars, additional musicians and duets.
With every track I do, I get more confident and learn a little
more about the process of recording, mixing and mastering, but
since we agreed it was finished, I’ve been scared to listen in
case it’s shit. I’ll check it out in a week or so.

You can listen to the album below:

Day 9 - recording with Tamira

Tamira came round tonight with Kevin O'Donoghue, for what should hopefully be the penultimate recording session. I was quite apprehensive about Kevin coming round; he has a lot of experience in recording studios and I'm not quite sure of what his opinion was of our little set up, it turned in to a good relaxing eveing anyway. He sang some backing vocals on one of Tamira's songs and they sounded amazing. He was a phenominally quick worker... quickly learning the tracks and coming up with vocal lines for it.

Day 8 - recording with Tamira

The artwork is finalised and we're just adding the finishing touches. I'm trying to call as many of the tracks close to final as possible, but every track seems to need one or two little things rerecorded.

Tamira - Anatomy of a heart - Artwork.

We submitted the artwork to the printers today: