Listen close and let your lids grow heavy…
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Category Archives: Recording
Song Assignment No. 8: A Lullaby for Leah
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Brighton Demos
Just a quick note to say that I have put up a few tracks recorded around 2008 with producer Darius Kedros in his home in Brighton. If you follow the link to my bandcamp page, you can download them for free. Hope you enjoy!
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Recording Piano
Over the past few weeks, Dave Millar and I have been working on recording four of my songs to make an ep that will hopefully be ready very soon. It’s been lot of fun and we can’t wait to get them finished! I posted some pictures up of Tommy Field doing some drumming a week or so ago so I thought I’d post up some more photos of how we’ve been getting on lately…
Here’s me looking like a rabbit in the headlights at the piano-this often happens when a camera is pointed at me, even when Dave is behind it:
This was about a week ago, when Dave’s family were kind enough to let us take over their living room for a couple of days. Mabel the cat has also been involved, and even accidentally got herself recorded when she couldn’t find her way out of the room and yowled at the end of a take. We’re still deciding if we should keep that on the track…
Finally, I couldn’t let Dave get away with not having his photo on this blog, so here he is posing at the piano
More coming soon!
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Tagged cat, Dave Millar, EP, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, microphone, music, piano, recording, tracks, Vladimir Lad
Song Assignment No. 5: Pick a newspaper article at random, write a song
This week we all chose an article at random and wrote a song based on that. I landed on what seemed like the most depressing and colourless story in the whole paper, but which actually turned out to hold some poetic gems. I used these without hesitation and combined them with a simple bassline to produce…quite a depressing song actually, but what else did I expect? As always, you can listen and cast your vote here:
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You can also read the original article by Maria Margaronis here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/12/euro-crisis-stake-greece-identity-europe?INTCMP=SRCH
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Tagged article, David Millar, economic crisis, Europe, Greece, Greek, Guardian, Lindsay West, Maria Margaronis, newspaper, song assignment, Vladimir Lad
Song Assignment No.4: Pick a Building, Write a Song
This week, VL writes about his childhood fear of the monastery near he house he grew up in. LW (that’s me) writes about La Sagrada Familia, a cathedral by Gaudi in the city where I was born. Strange that we both chose religious buildings…You can listen and cast your vote here:
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Tagged building, cathedral, David Millar, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, monastery, song assignment, Vladimir Lad
Song Assignment
Here is a link to a little project I’ve started with my pal and band-mate Dave. Every week we write a song to a brief and then record and post it on the site. You can vote for your favourite and even post your own song for each assignment. Hope you enjoy!
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Drums
Here are some photos of the Great Tommy Field helping me get some drums down for a couple of songs. Dave Millar was at the sound desk and showed infinite patience and ingenuity, managing to make a living room sound like the perfect studio space. Ongoing thanks to both these lovelies-check out their music at http://www.myspace.com/hangingbyhorseback and http://www.myspace.com/thevladimirlad
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Lindsay West 