Late-ish start today. Well it is sunday after all, and while i have little time for organised religion I do have plenty of time for a nice lie in.
Actually we have a late studio start because Claes has had a go at recording a piano part for chinese blues on Franny's lovely steinway piano. This, i have to admit, involves a little pro-tools action, (as moving the tape machine Across London to Franny's house would of course be ludicrous) but we will try to keep it to a minimum.
Get into the studio and F has a pop at singing "song to self" but it is proving to be quite a resilient throat frog so we bring up "quite free".
If you remember this is the song we felt we had some problems with but as soon as Emery pulls up the faders it sounds great! Relief.Franny doubles the bass line on acoustic and then puts on another guitar.
The middle section needs to go a bit space-y so it's another time for Claes to shine. He goes for Jupiter 8 and echoplex again. Ooh pulsating. Very nice.
Dinner tonight is a very hearty sunday roast followed by apple tart and custard which leaves us all in need of being helped into a comfy chair. Miraculously, however, F puts down a bunch of great vocal takes for "quite free".
We decide to have a bit more fun with the middle sectionand backwards piano and a few Emery's special tricks (trade secrets) give it what it needs.
We then, for the first time on this album, all gather round the mic and indulge ourselves in our trademark handclaps recipe. I can't divulge too much about this, but can say that it involves partial nudity. I do a couple of little backing vocals and Emery puts down a rough mix.
It's pretty late so we call it a night.
I am tempted to stay up and watch a bit of the oscars but just a few seconds of the red carpet nonsense sends me hurtling towards my bed.
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