Good stuff. Four tracks down:
Celia (finally; we’ve been performing this long enough without having a version of it recorded anywhere)
The Last Word / Revelation (the poem colloquially known as "Let’s Fuck," now wedded to an old love poem as its second part; heavy, complex slap funk from Faro and a sick bridge to the more melodic second section, modulated up from D to G and simplified.)
By The Numbers (the surprise of the day — a really old piece about a school shooting, something I stopped performing probably six years ago. I pulled it out on a whim and Faro laid down a gorgeous chordal progression with harmonics on the bass that lent a strange air of meditation to a piece I’ve always thought of as fairly creepy. )
We listened to "Carve," the piece I’ve got posted on the Myspace right now and the first serious piece I’ve done with me on guitar. Decided that it’ll probably stand as is in terms of arrangement (solo guitar w/vocal, although we are semi-considering adding a bass line), though it will be re-recorded for production values, but it won’t be released until I figure out how to perform it live. Reciting a poem while playing guitar is ten times harder for me than singing a song while playing; add my natural reluctance and insecurity about playing guitar live and this will be a daunting project. Still, I need to do it.
We also worked on "Get Up," a piece from the bass suite that Faro wrote a while back, but got no satisfactory takes. We’ll be rehearsing it more before trying it again — lines to tweak and timing to solidify.
A good session. Feels like we’re back on track. Nothing to post yet, as we’ve got mixing to do, but I like what we’ve got so far. I suspect this CD will end up being far less political in content than the last one, if the stuff we’re working on is any indication.
Later, gators…
