Mixing Clockmaker’s Daughter
Wow. I’m some kind of fried. Tonight will be our last night in the studio. I just did the math— after tonight it’ll be something like 50 hours over 5 days, with our dayjobs crammed in between. We finished ‘the Clockmaker’s Daughter’ last night which i was really concerned about. VJ threw down an amazing harmonium track (with Jason working the bellows), we cut the bells, redid the acoustic and Jenny came by and did some super lovely stairway ghost vocals. It came out pretty great i think, but it’s definitely lack of planning/vision on my part that we were doing such extensive overdubs during a mix session! Oh well, it’s finished and we’ve only 2.5 songs to tackle tonight and mixing will be done.
I leave for NYC to visit my sister tomorrow night. I can’t wait. We’re going to ABC No Rio, the Cake Shop, the Lever House and we’re gonna check out Janet Cardiff’s piece in Central Park. It’s going to be a full and amazing trip. Best of all, i get to roll with my sister for 5 days!
While i’m away we’re gonna be double checking the mixes and thinking about sequencing. Upon return we’ll work that all out and master the pup and then it’s done done done. I’ll post a some sneak peaks here soon…
Redder Records has a bunch of covers by Kind of Like Spitting posted in lovely free mp3 format. Click the media link at the top of their site (damn frames!). Be sure to check out the version of Death Cab for Cutie’s ‘Title Track’. It has this nice sorta screamy part at the end which, in my humble opinion makes KoLS’ version better than the original. My friend Craig always says, too much cutie and not enough death and i’m inclined to agree. That said, i must admit i have a certain inexplainable (inexcusable?) soft spot for that Postal Service song ‘The District Sleeps Alone Tonight’. Anyway, bunch of good mp3s at Redder’s site. Update: also grab the KoLS version of Tom Courtney (totally has the Dinosaur Jr. doing the Cure trick on the first chorus!).