Painted Pianos and Studio Drawings

Yesterday Tara and I spent the afternoon working on the her new songs. We crafted a nice little beat to go along with the piano we recorded the other day, and then began adding layers of synths and sound effects to gives the song more texture. Tara added a mellotron violin that give the song a sad and haunting edge. Then using the moog she added a couple of pads to fill in the atmosphere. One of which has a floating, ascending sound when the key is released so it kind of sends the listener out into space. Lastly she added a bit of B4 organ. She has already written the vocals, but we have not recorded them yet, perhaps we'll get to it in the next couple of days. She has asked me to write a bass line so I'll be getting to that as well. All in all the song is coming along.

This song is a product of two requests Jetsunma made of Tara. First was to deeply study the piano. The other was for Tara to write her own material for the next album, so that this album features more of Tara than "Revolution of Compassion" and "Delog." Tara went out of her way and bought a piano in order to facilitate Jetsunma's requests. And she promptly set out to compose. Within a couple of days she had written two very gorgeous songs and we have tracked the piano on both. Her intention is to have both somewhat produced before she presents them to Jetsunma.

The challenge that we face for this next album is creating songs that are wholly unique but using the same tools and instruments that we used in producing ROC and Delog. It is unfortunate that we do not have more resources to draw upon, different synths more software, for it would give us more options. Fortunately Tara and Nathaniel have amazing composition skills, there is no limitation on their ability to create. Besides all of this strengthens us as musicians if we have limited tools but can still make new and innovate sounds.

In other news we have just received the latest design from our Studio Designer Eric Wenocur and it is looking real good. He's got all the elements we need and he gives us plenty of space to work in. Here in this floor plan, Eric has two versions of the control room, one with a producer desk and one without. He is asking us which would suit our needs more aptly. I think we'll probably go without the desk, just to save room, as space is limited. Either way it'll be better than our construction-trailer-studio-thing that we are stuck in currently. Its very exciting to see this design coming together!

Later this week I have a session with Harbinger, we'll probably finish the last songs and their demo will be done. You can listen to rough mixes at this link: www.myspace.com/arsmorienti