Master at work. Time for Rico to lend a final ear to the four tracks intended for EP1. Watching him coax our mixes to a new level is a privilege: parts are woven together to form a solid sonic picture.
Author: SEMITONAL
Piano-driven, hypnotic, instrumental music with attitude.
Semitone changes hover above glitches and live grooves.
Massive Attack collides with Mogwai and Erik Satie.
Rehearsals begin for taking SEMITONAL live, as mixes for the first four tracks near completion. Keith Bishop takes the drum torch from Paul Ashby, who played on the EP.
Session 7 in The Doghouse… tweaking tweaking tweaking mixes of the first four tracks. And playing with CCTV. Getting there.
After a five-month hiatus… session 6 in The Doghouse. Trying to reach final mixes of four tracks, while push-pulling the overall sound of the project. Working across the rooftops.
Thinking about David Bowie today, and an album that changed music forever.
Christmas Drinks in the SEMITONAL camp, featuring everyone who played on the album… both of us. Thanks to drummer Paul Ashby for hitting things so impressively.
Refreshed and ready for session 5. Firmly in the realm of sonics now; tweaking pianos, cementing the rhythm section, sculpting each piece and pulling everything together. And creating bass dirt with whatever is to hand…
First holiday in years… some preparatory listening before another studio visit for further mixing.
Session 4. Picking up where we left off, revised MIDI files in place, with the focus on tracking as much bass as possible â including first-time fretless on STROKES and TRYPTOPHAN. New Bass Friend Forever in the form of the UA 6176 interface. All bass now recorded.
Doghouse session 3, setting up two more tracks then straight into initial bass recording. We end with four tracks of bass in the can.
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