Looks Like The Lovers Are Losing

So it's been a few days since I posted last.

Saturday was full of problems, we both arived with great attitudes and ready go roll, unfortunately some of our gear was not feeling the same way....So the day ended with tired eyes, food, Starcraft and no recording done.

Luckily! Monday held progress, we started some guitar stuff and everything was working perfectly again.

It's a weird process working with someone else, especially because in a lot of ways me and Tugrul are completely different when it comes to musical styles and the way we see and hear things.

I find I'm very raw and messy when it comes to songs, thats the way I like to play and write, I think it's what makes music and recordings human and delicate, and emotional.

Don't get me wrong, I need structure to a song, but I love the little mistakes that are made. They sometimes become my favourite part of a song or performance, especially when the mistakes are played so passionately like they aren't mistakes at all. There's something so beautiful about someone being so sure about placing notes and sounds where they shouldn't be, it convinces the listener that it's just the way its meant to be...I mean this within reason of course, I'm not saying I like listening to terrible sounding music, just raw music.

and Tugrul strikes me as very professional, neat and prescise. I think we're about to learn a lot about each other this way, I know we can mix the two to become something quite special. We'll both teach each other a ton about how to approach a song, an instrument and music in general, hopefully we can open our eyes a little wider to something we don't quite understand.

Tuesday I went out and got myself my very first real amp, a Vox AC30

Wednesday we got back to recording again.
I've spent most of our recording time analyzing things, not really speaking much.

Letting ideas come and listening to a lot of what Tugrul has to say, trying things I would never try myself, taking everything in.
Becoming very un-sure of what the song was going to become.

We continued recording things, as the day went on I started getting a clearer idea of what I need to do to get it the way I want it, realizing I need to speak up more, and remember my vision.

Not that I had much to say at first though, it was all just too exciting.

After some E-bow action we did a few piano bits, then the plan was to start recording electric guitar, but as soon as Tugrul brought out his SG I had to plug in and take my new amp for a test drive with all my pedals hooked up because I hadn't played it at all.

So once he started hammering out ideas I quickly got some of my own and couldn't contain myself, I quickly ran to set everything up and we ended up just jamming for a long time, making tons of crazy feedback noises and I started losing myself in a very weird mood and sound landscape, very noisey, very free.

We both agreed it was really nice to be able to make some noise and just play. Once I got home after having been playing lots of piano bits and quiet acoustic bits and just very structured little things so much, I realized how much the song needs to change in order to come back to what I want it to be, and It all hit me right as soon as I walked in my door.

I work best with images, and words.

So knowing that, instead of writing a bunch of notes on whats wrong and what needs to change, I found pictures that described the feeling of the song, I wrote words that best describe the feeling I need to get while hearing it, just like when I recorded at home.

I'm really excited to head back tomorrow and present all this to Tugrul and get the song really together and back on track.

I know you're probably all wondering what song it is I've been talking about.

Well, I won't tell you which one it is, but it's going to sound something like this:

And Then This: