Back into the studio to finish off the six song EP. The song order is decided and artwork done – simple wins out – and to the part I love: adding a few textures and layers of sound. I pretty much knew what I was going to add, mainly some percussion, subtle guitar and light backing vocals. I steered clear of double tracking the vocals as I wanted that exposed rawness. Paul even did some backing and played the melodium on one track. It sounds great.

I’m really happy and this is probably the best thing I’ve recorded in a long while. Mainly because it is ‘me’. No hiding behind autotune or overdubs: essentially it’s me, playing the guitar and singing my songs. I love the exposed nature of the recording.

It should be ready next Friday and I’m hoping Rounder and Resident will carry it. The next stage into get it into some of the alt.country publications and reviewed and organise a tour for early next year. Wish me luck and perhaps buy the EP. It’ll be on iTunes too.

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So, day one of recording is done. All in all a successful and fun day, although I’m knackered: singing and concentrating, solidly for 4-5 hours really does take its toll.

As I said previously – I’ve not recorded ‘live’ before, always with copious overdubs, stitching and a little ‘that’ll do’ – so today’s session was very interesting and a new experience. My music is not about note perfection or professional sheen, so why should my recordings be? The idea was to go in and capture the essence of what the songs are communicating; bum notes, scratchy guitar and all. Read the rest of this entry »

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