Live From The Birdcage

I'm not sure, but this could be my first entry directly from mid-session. Just a few minutes ago, Brandt, Ash, Charles and myself (Robin, sadly is absent for various reasons) finished improvising a brand new track that is based around a wonderful harmonic Charles started on his bass. This turned into a 20 minute jam with B on guitars, myself on keyboards, and Ash manning the drum machines, FX and computer. I'm on the couch while Ash and Brandt lay get ready to hit the record button so we can commit the parts we like to digitial tape. And this is just one part of a very productive evening.

I arrived here early tonight to again work on further edits on CLEAN UP so we can fit Peter Saintface's vocals (whenever he decides to come visit us. I think these reversions have really helped this track immensely. As I was wrapping the edit up, Ash showed up and expressed his love for the new version of the song, which is always a good sign.

The theme of the evening has been, well, "clean up" as we have been going through the tracks and making sure we're happy with the arrangements and sounds, etc. This usually leads to bass overdubs provided by Charles who is nothing short of awesome tonight on tracks like CREATION PHASE. He also happened to walk in as we were finishing CLEAN UP and we convinced him to replay my chorus so it was super-tight. Aces. Also undergoing a signficant edit was the bonus track DESCRIPTIVE which is now a lean mean song with the perfect balance of New Order style rock and Cerati-like electronics. I'm still working on the lyrics for that one, but its less a priority at moment. However, our summer break has made us all quite prolific.

Meanwhile, we've all caught up as we haven't seen each other for weeks or in some cases a few months. Lots going on in everyone's musical world and through all the discussions, we have figured out a possible way to combine the efforts of the two MOG-offshoots into the supergroup that Dan Hamill has always dreamt about. It's embryonic and it's going to be a ways down the road, but it's a cool idea (yes, of course it was me who thought of it!)

At this point, Charles has laid down his harmonics and B is getting Ash's 909 programs recorded. It sounds like heaven up here, kids.

F

PS: Oh, and Ash didn't hate Kasabian...yet