Last night’s session @ HiLo was great. Pacy Shulman, our ever-excellent engineer and studio host got great sounds very quickly (as an aside, anyone looking to record real piano in a great room for a reasonable price MUST get in touch with Pacy, his Yamaha C2 is top-notch), and we were tracking within an hour of load-in. We took first-takes of everything except for a Rob Price tune, “Mouse Game” (we played it first, then ran it again at the end of the session; the second take was much better since we had loosened up considerably after tracking five other tunes…) and my “Planet of Grapes”, a medium tempo backbeat tune (I play far too much 2 & 4 for this to be a jazz record.. :)), which fell victim to a few clams.
Anyway, it was a fast and musical session; I let Pacy work at his own pace (he’s a meticulous and masterful mix engineer; I have no patience for the mix, so I’ve had to learn to just let him do it and be patient with the wait), so we’ll all have to wait to hear this stuff. In the meantime the tunes we tracked were:
baba o’riley (the Who tune…), planet of grapes (cc), hope song (cc), ahead by a century (a tragically hip tune), hunter (a bjork tune), and mouse game (rob price).
Stay tuned for a few photos from the session.
chris cawthray 