Alright toadfish, we've finished!
It was a choppy slog but we've got 11 songs recorded and ready to put at you!
We're most pleased with what's come together and hope you enjoy it. It'll be available on our bandcamp at www.functionrecords.bandcamp.com from tomorrow.
We're all off to brush the teeth, drink the Cava, eat the curry, and wake the Doug.
In your face chandelier.
Sunday 16 October 2011
Saturday 15 October 2011
19th hour
We're plunging into our last few hours now and things are getting pretty raw. Everything's funny and confusing.
We've got a bunch of songs coming together and we're set to romp home with some drums and vocals when the hour is more sociable. But now is a time for deep introspection. The window is rank with condensation and our stomachs are fighting to digest the last of the chipsticks and curry we ate a lifetime ago. Ben pushes pen across paper, Doug analyses ceiling, Heather wrestles her warmth inwards, and Dan pretends to be asleep. Wayne is a ghost of a man. We haven't seen him for days. His parting words callous and final. He is on a journey now.
In a couple of hours we will be loud on the buzz of a frantic countdown. We will congregate, smiles within all faces, swigging a morning coffee, celebrating each other's heroics.
But not yet.
We've got a bunch of songs coming together and we're set to romp home with some drums and vocals when the hour is more sociable. But now is a time for deep introspection. The window is rank with condensation and our stomachs are fighting to digest the last of the chipsticks and curry we ate a lifetime ago. Ben pushes pen across paper, Doug analyses ceiling, Heather wrestles her warmth inwards, and Dan pretends to be asleep. Wayne is a ghost of a man. We haven't seen him for days. His parting words callous and final. He is on a journey now.
In a couple of hours we will be loud on the buzz of a frantic countdown. We will congregate, smiles within all faces, swigging a morning coffee, celebrating each other's heroics.
But not yet.
The 14th hour
So what I failed to mention last time is that the album is set in the years leading up to the death of an unknown man found on the beach in Adelaide. We have been working out lyrical ideas from a summary of the mystery and some interesting facts that were discovered by various means. If you want to have a read, here's what we're working from - http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/08/the-body-on-somerton-beach/
There has been a flurry of productivity since the last blog and now we have 10 or 11 songs down, not quite sure exactly how many, everything is moving too fast! Most of the instrument parts are finished, we have just started vocals and it's all starting to come together rather nicely.
In fact, this blog has been by far the least successful part of this album recording as each post has been started but not finished and slowly added to over the course of many hours. I guess that's what happens if you try to record a whole album in the space of 24 hours. More to come.
There has been a flurry of productivity since the last blog and now we have 10 or 11 songs down, not quite sure exactly how many, everything is moving too fast! Most of the instrument parts are finished, we have just started vocals and it's all starting to come together rather nicely.
In fact, this blog has been by far the least successful part of this album recording as each post has been started but not finished and slowly added to over the course of many hours. I guess that's what happens if you try to record a whole album in the space of 24 hours. More to come.
24 hour album challenge
After a bacon and egg and sandwich and a morning cup of tea we were all ready to put our brains together and start the process of creating an album within 24 hours.
Ben pressed record at exactly 9.54 am this morning with a trumpet solo by Beth Holloway.
The house shortly turned into musical chaos with people fracturing off into different rooms for simultaneous song writing. The first song to go down was a solo effort by Ben, shortly followed by the more raucous "Adelaide". then Jamie's first offering went down whilst Dan and Heather were composing using pure chance as the writing technique. Numbers written on paper depict different chords for the verses and different notes for the melodies, whether they be glock or vocals. It's certainly interesting and sounds surprisingly good. Wayne was composing some terrific lyrics to Dans accordion written "Jestyn". Some songs are being written at great length whilst others are coming together more quickly and getting laid straight down such as Ben's next offering with myself (Doug) and Dan layering up a percussive storm over the top. So at the moment we have about 6 or 7 tracks down, not all of them recorded, it is hard to keep track.
So I have to go back and record again now as Ben just had an idea for some drums to Jamie's song that we recorded earlier. Best get back to it. Will update again later!
Toodle pip.
Ben pressed record at exactly 9.54 am this morning with a trumpet solo by Beth Holloway.
The house shortly turned into musical chaos with people fracturing off into different rooms for simultaneous song writing. The first song to go down was a solo effort by Ben, shortly followed by the more raucous "Adelaide". then Jamie's first offering went down whilst Dan and Heather were composing using pure chance as the writing technique. Numbers written on paper depict different chords for the verses and different notes for the melodies, whether they be glock or vocals. It's certainly interesting and sounds surprisingly good. Wayne was composing some terrific lyrics to Dans accordion written "Jestyn". Some songs are being written at great length whilst others are coming together more quickly and getting laid straight down such as Ben's next offering with myself (Doug) and Dan layering up a percussive storm over the top. So at the moment we have about 6 or 7 tracks down, not all of them recorded, it is hard to keep track.
So I have to go back and record again now as Ben just had an idea for some drums to Jamie's song that we recorded earlier. Best get back to it. Will update again later!
Toodle pip.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Birthday Challenge
It's Ben's birthday so...we're going to write and record an album in 24 hours!
On October 15th we'll be getting together and working our creative brains into mush and hopefully we should have an album for you to download the following monday (Oct 17th). We'll also be performing the album on the Sunday evening where there'll be physical copies for sale, the location of this will be a secret we'll only let special people know (e mail us if you think you're special enough). We're also looking for musicians to get involved with this, especially those who can play unusual instruments (eg. taramaglock, bubbletrone or the hunk), so if you're interested chuck us an e mail here: catsandcatsandcats1@gmail.com.
We'll blog the whole thing to death over here so you can keep checking up on us. Don't expect a slickly produced set of dance hits, we'll be recording in my bedroom with weird instruments and an extreme time limit.
YES!
On October 15th we'll be getting together and working our creative brains into mush and hopefully we should have an album for you to download the following monday (Oct 17th). We'll also be performing the album on the Sunday evening where there'll be physical copies for sale, the location of this will be a secret we'll only let special people know (e mail us if you think you're special enough). We're also looking for musicians to get involved with this, especially those who can play unusual instruments (eg. taramaglock, bubbletrone or the hunk), so if you're interested chuck us an e mail here: catsandcatsandcats1@gmail.com.
We'll blog the whole thing to death over here so you can keep checking up on us. Don't expect a slickly produced set of dance hits, we'll be recording in my bedroom with weird instruments and an extreme time limit.
YES!
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