December 2008
11 posts
happy new year - all of it
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas, Channukah, all of it. We have had a good one so far, Logan is in New Orleans at the moment, Timshel and I are in Indianapolis, and we wish you and your people a happy 2009.
Births, Deaths, and both in the jazz world. Let’s start with the good news:
The birth in the jazz world comes to our dear friends Tyson and Laura Rogers.
Clementine Eliza Rogers was...
whew
the past few night we’ve settled in and stayed at the studio pretty late finishing up the mixes… but tomorrow will bring an end to all of that! we are hoping to be finished by the end of the evening and then we will go and get some much needed sleep.
lake fever sessions
the fellows at lake fever studios (they just mixed our eden was a garden ep - highly recommend these guys) have teamed up with tugboat, a nashville video production company and have started bringing bands in the studio on off days to record and film them playing a few songs. this afternoon we went over and played a few songs including a cover of one of our all-time favorite faces songs, Glad...
mixing
a few days ago we completely finished the tracking the record - an era that was capped off by a virtuosic piano performance by logan (4 notes relatively close together at a snail’s pace).
and now we are in the middle of mixing… it can be a slightly boring process because most of the time spent involves exactly this:
However, if you are dorky about records the way we are,...
last day of tracking
It is our last day tracking here at The Lehning Compound. So far we are just trying to take it all in.
This evening we had our friend Justin come in and put some cello on Big Light and Woke Up This Morning. He really killed it. Kind of stunning.
And we did a butt load of background vocals. This is Logan and me creating “visual barriers” so we could get through our takes...
picture taking
Yesterday was our photoshoot for the album art work. We are never very good at the taking of picture biz so it is always a big of a gamble. However, David McClister was taking the pictures so, at the least, we were starstrcuck. His pictures are amazing. Wheew.
We travelled about 45 minutes out of the city to the big and empty Bone Mansion. Despite the ridiculous/hilarious initial...
Our Last Two days tracking of "O Tall Tree In the...
Thank you SO much to everybody who came out to the show this past Thursday night! It was such a fun show and we loved seeing so many familiar and unfamiliar faces up in the crowd. And thanks to all of you who have been writing in and getting your copies of the new ep. We had such fun puttn it together and we re so glad that it is finally getting to all of your ears.
Lots of conversations and...
Important announcement for people who came to the...
Important (!) If you downloaded our new ep using a dropcard before 12pm est today, you should RE-DOWNLOAD TWO of the SONGS. Through a file mixup, users accidentally downloaded demo mp3s of the songs, one of which was an instrumental. The files have been corrected now and the proper versions of the songs are available for free here.
If you didn’t download the ep, or come to the show, then...
studios and ep releases
more crazy business in at The Lehning Compound this morning. Check back later for ep release updates. We will have links for the ep download here later in the evening. We’ll be recording up until the last minute here today before heading over for the release show. If you are in Nashville….we’re excited to see you all out at Mercy Lounge tonight!
ep 1, finished. Back to the studio.
EP 1 is finished and in the mixing stage. Now it is on to LP work with Jason and a deep breath before we start on ep #2.
And we have Logy back. :)
Plus an evening of background vocals and happy visitors. Week number 2, here we go.
Finishing Ep #1....wheeew.
We hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving! We drove home late Sunday night so we could finish off the last little parts of these eps by this afternoon. It has been a little crazy with the weird hours and the mayhem of multiple projects but that is always the fun of it
Right now as I write this we are finishing up the vocal for our last song and about to listen back to the mix of our first...