our biggest news to our loyal followers in this blogosphere is: we are mixing! we finished all our recording in early April, and since then have been trying to create as much time as possible to put to mixing. not so easy with 4 people's lives.
anyway, our friend Ivan is doing the deed. He's been wonderful so far, patient and on-point. He's got his studio set up in his basement in Petworth, lovely how close it is. He's definitely pushing the songs- which he should- but sometimes it's scary. Our children-songs are being cared for and influenced by another for a while. It's that crucial adolescent phase.
Anyway, today Ben returns from Phoenix (and I was in Mexico last week), so we can resume full-steam ahead. We're about halfway done.
Today we printed (finished) Howling, and I'm very excited about it. Sounds beautiful. As we spend hours and hours on each song, I think about the journey, the life, each song has taken. And I certainly intend (and encourage my band-mates) to write out something of a history of each song. The impressions, trials, influences, directions, debates, errors, excitements, discoveries, highs lows and middles of each song. Each one has so much to tell, so much of us in it along every step of the way. Often we forget the earlier parts of the journey, especially in a low period. I hope that when this creation is actually DONE that others will feel that. We've crafted these songs oh so carefully, but there's an incredible amount of emotion in there. Remember where we began this feat, recording live in Butte la Rose, Louisiana, 13 months ago- and we were crazed by the energy. We were high from it. Weeks turned into months turned into year; but we also grew as musicians and people along the way, and all that's in there too.
Ah, boys I love you all very much, and no matter what, these moments are caught in our songs, and they will always be there.
-Vanessa
