Outro (with bees)
(since I’m updating this more with random album statuses, I’m just going to pick random song titles as my post titles)
After my daily dose of The Simpsons I crawled back into the studio last night. Since my cold has mostly cleared up, I recorded some much better vocal takes for the track I’m hoping to finish in time for a compilation submission. It’s tabla-tastic, and is pretty much sticking to the vocal-techno mold (so not a ton of modulation). I made it through three verses and two choruses before my head refilled with goo and I had to stop.
I also pulled out the fiddle and an irish tunebook and started sightreading my way through some jigs and reels. It’s been a loooong time since I’ve done any amount of sightreading and it’s a skill that has atrophied a bit over time. I’m not exactly planning on using these particular slip jigs or anything, but I am trying to re-familiarize myself with the idioms and techniques so I can fuse it with other things. We’ll see what comes of it – the resulting experiments could be very cool, or they could be achingly twee and saccharine.
What I’d really like to attempt requires one heckuva balancing act. If I go too far one way, the tracks sound like pedestrian electropop. Too far another way, they become too experimental and borderline unlistenable. Too far the third way, and they’re watered-down world music. Difficult. I’m not sure how sucessful I’ll be, especially since at least one of the tools I want to use is being fussy with Logic.
