Postcard 03 – a late night affair
Posted by adam on September 30, 2011
So here it is, the hardest one so far. Although I put that down to the fact that I am 4 days from my album deadline. I have spent the last few days doing everything necessary to get the album ready.
I’m now down to going through systematically tweaking each track in turn, mixing down, going off for a listen, making notes, coming back and going through each one again. Yesterday I got through half way. But that was 10pm in the end. So I didn’t start on this Postcard til 10.30pm.
And boy did I struggle with it. I ended up using some footage that I wasn’t expecting too. but at 3am it was getting to me, and I knew I had to get up and get back to things this morning. SO my judgement was hazy.
Then at 7.30 this morning I decided it wasn’t good enough. So I filmed a whole bunch of new footage to tell the story I originally wanted to tell. Light was perfect so I got stuck in. And I feel a bit better about it now.
Postcard 03 features Jessica Lauren. On our day recording together we spent a lot of time at the end of the session messing around with an echoplex (tape echo machine – you play a signal in and a single rotating piece of tape records it and reads it back as it spins back around over and over, gradually decaying over time) a Wah Wah pedal too and the Rhodes.
These are elements of that little play around and elements of the main track ‘Afar’. As always I hope you enjoy.
