The Germans are coming!

Greitje Smid, violinist extraordinaire, has come by to add her dulcet tones to the Faramarz Aslani tracks I'm working on. Beautiful stuff. She also brought her friends from home Mad Minority, who are here on tour from Germany. As soon as we're done tracking, I'm gonna learn me some Gerry curse words.

You know, like the dolphin.

10/14/12
Haus Of Leaves
3:38pm
Today I have the pleasure of recording doomsters Ecco, which is 3/4 of Chaos Destroy and an ex-Lotus Fucker. We're underway on the first take, and it will be about 10mins before we listen back (if all goes well).

10pm
3 songs, 10mins+ each,  all tracked and mostly mixed. Tomorrow, we finish!

Update Wolf

Several days late, here's a link to the finished Queen Wolf demo. Enjoy! Queenwolf.bandcamp.com

I'm also working on a track for Faramarz Aslani. Tonight is a cello/violin session for one of the songs, which should be exciting. I also have a vocal session for the Invitational jams tonight. Packed Haus!

Demo Wolf

I write to you from the center of the QUEEN WOLF demo recording process. We have a handful of vocal lins to record tonight, then mix/master/release. We did the instruments live in our tiny practice space, with all the mic bleed that suggests. We have methods for alleviating these headaches though, and it sounds better than it should already. Huzzah!

I'm also like a third through mixing the Sweat Life album. Skunk Jamz for the young youth, ya hurd?

Blog Break

A month and a half of no posts...yikes! In that time, I mixed and mastered the second Lotus Fucker lp, mixed a song by th band Sweat Life for a movie soundtrack, played two shows with Queen Wolf, got violently seasick, watched Thejus build a new recording pc, and moved my gear back to Haus Of Leaves. Being based at The Bambou is too inconvenientt, though I maintain a relationship with them and have an arangement  fffor booking their facilities. Sometimes you just wanna mix in your underwear, you know?

This weekend we'll be testing the new pc by mixing more Sweat Life tracks. Gonna have to keep the eye strain minimal and take breaks though. The crazy seasick barfing kind of exploded my eyes.

Midnight Crew Studios

Next week, I'll be recording DVD commentary with Chris Lamartina and Jimmy George for the triumphant DVD release of "President's Day". In the meantime, feast your eyes on an interview with the dudes about upcoming projects and their Artscape installation!

http://m.citypaper.com/film/red-tape-1.1344793

Lotus Fucker LP#2

Watch "Lotus Fucker tracking session 7-14-2012" on YouTube

There was a much longer, cooler video that was accidentally erased. Weak. We still have this lovely video of Dan doing vocals in the control room. 4 words:
Kung
Fu
Pan
Da

I'll have some pictures from this soon. Tonight, we worked on constructing the intros and outros, which involved varying degrees of sampling, musique concrete, guitar and synth playing, editing, and mixing on my part. I am Doctor Session.

My band Queen Wolf makes its debut on Sunday July 22nd at Ratscape. Stoked to melt faces.