tomorrow (or today, as you’re reading this) i’m going into a studio in midtown to begin recording the acoustic/orchestral album. thus begins 6 14 hour days. which is great. i love disappearing into big, old studios, where you look up and realize, ‘oh, it’s 2 a.m, huh, how did that happen?’
i’m really curious to see how the recording goes. the idea is to record with no electronic elements at all. so: piano, live drums, acoustic guitar, strings, stand up bass, etc. at some point i might cheat and introduce a couple of small electronic elements, but for now i really like the idea of keeping everything completely in the acoustic realm. which means: no electric guitars, no computers, no synthesizers, no drum machines, no samplers. i love electric guitars and drum machines and etc, but i want to see what it’s like to work without them. who knows, maybe it’ll be terrible. and if it’s terrible i hope i have the decency to never let anyone hear the recordings… but hopefully the end result will be really warm and inviting. at least that’s the hope. even if it ends up being a failure i’m excited to try to record an album in a way that’s completely different to how i’ve worked in the past.
pictures and etc to follow. i get a lot of use out of ‘etc’. i usually write ‘etc’ when i’m being lazy or can’t think of anything else to write. etc.
moby