September 2010
7 posts
an aside
Friends,
I know I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been going through all the video footage from our mixing sessions in Austin and I’m editing like crazy. I’ll have something for you soon. Sorry to keep you on your tiptoes. I know it hurts. Shut up, ballerina friends! Speaking of ballerina friends…
This is Zen and Cassius. One of them is a dancer. One of them...
The Orientalist part four
Today we mixed the remaining unmixed songs on the record, plus a bonus track:
1. “I Took the Western Rail to Ahmedabad”
2. “How Can Love Be Wrong”,
3. “Happy Forever” and
4. the bonus - “Achilles Heart (Hanuman Steals the Bow and Arrow)”
Let me take you on a visual journey through today’s experience. I can show you the world. Shining...
Orientalist part three
“Get Me the Actress From Calcutta”, “God of Small Things” and “O Sangeeta”
an actress from Calcutta? check. thanks, interweb.
book cover of “God of Small Things”? No problem.
Sangeeta? uh…
I hard a bit of a hard time finding the right images to correspond to the song title “O Sangeeta”.
this last one is from an article...
Orientalist part two
Jim, Annie, Wylie and Wil joined us in the studio today to start mixing songs. First up, “Van Gogh Sher Gil”
Annie and Wil had several theories about the meaning of the lyrics, which they shared with me, along with ideas for a music video, which would involve me making out with female me, or just another me wearing a wig. That’s right isn’t it? The main difference...
"The Orientalist", part one
mixing “The Orientalist”
Days one and two of mixing my new record “The Orientalist” now over. I sat on a couch at Public Hi Fi with my laptop on my lap (how appropriate) as Brad Bell cleaned up my various messes in ProTools. Snip snip trim delete play replay sigh trim delete play replay mute snip snip…We made it through every song, getting them all ready for Jim and Annie, who arrive tomorrow...
