Thursday was the – for now – last day I worked on ‘The Tide’. I wrote some more bits for the string arrangement and added a great middle 8 that adds perfectly to the dramatic sound of the song. Then in the evening a good friend of mine who I hadn’t seen for some time [...]
More preparations for the gig with Bobby Starrr. Built some more ‘instruments’ so I can play stuff live on my Mac/keyboard and won’t only trigger everything. That’d be a bit boring. Made nice broken beats as an interlude and found some great VST plugins with which I can [...]
Had a bit of an undecisive day yesterday when I had no clue if the arrangement for ‘Hearts first’ was any good, especially the beats. So I didn’t make all that much progress – adding things and deleting them again. I ended up going to Antje Öklesund to see Phoebe Kreutz [...]
Today was a strange day. I’ve been heating my place with a coal-burning stove, because it’s cheaper and quite cosy and warm. Last saturday when it was so stormy the smoke started seeping out and into the room even though the stove was shut and I had to open the windows. Since then [...]
It’s done. ‘Webs’ is finished apart from the vocals and the final mix – as usual. It took longer than I had hoped, but I think it’d be stupid to start doing things half-heartedly now. I worked out all the little details, made refinements for the beats, checked if [...]
Shocking how much time I can spend with one song. Although I must admit I’ve been a bit distracted today. It seems my friends’ve had enough of not seeing me and start demanding my reappearance. Can’t complain about that, can I? Spoke to my best friend and he’s okay with me [...]
The gig on Saturday (or should I say Sunday since I played way past midnight) went quite well. I played four songs and people even asked for an encore. What a bizarre night! Unfortunately I woke up yesterday with an approaching migraine that rendered me unable to do anything. So today I still feel [...]
Today has been strictly rehearsing. I thought about bringing full gear to the little gig tomorrow, but decided against it. There’s a piano there and I’ll bring my looper. Pretty low-key. All four songs in kind of unplugged versions. Other than that I went shopping, clothes and [...]