Recordings
Brand New Colony
I recorded this with my Toshiba's soundcard into Adobe Audition. The outro
represents my first recorded foray into the ambient. (If only I had some analog
reverb to feedback on itself.) The mix is nowhere near glossy. I was sick when
I recorded vocals, and the drums are my bathroom cupboards. I have no idea
what the little line is that I played on the chorus but I like it.
This is a Postal Service song, but it's a God song, through and through. I plan to play it at a worship circle sometime. Metaphors like these are hard to come by.
I sang and played everything while Koenen moved the mics around and manipulated his PC Cubase setup.
“I had sent you just the end of the song but got inspired
to just try to finish at least a rough draft. I think the end gets a little to
much distortion from pushing the limiter too far but it might just be the
sensitivity of my monitors. Let me know what you think. The acoustic sounds
really good and I love that lead solo guitar track, figured you wouldn't mind
some delay on it.”
-Koenen
The lead track sounds really glassy and sweet, but the rhythm-electric that we
nestled behind the last chorus sounded a little too harsh to myself, even as we
recorded, but I had gotten it in my head that I had wanted to push the amp a
little harder... Let that be a lesson to nail the tone before it hits the mic.
This is a Toad the Wet Sprocket song. If you've ever been restricted to continue a relationship over the telephone, you know what this song is about. For me, it was healing.
I've described this one as a Blues Comedy in E. It's really more proof that my computer could manage a couple tracks than a real attempt. It's a little noisy and messy.
Matt Kraus was the leader of the Warren Frosh study. It's probably his fault that I'm in IV.