it’s not that it doesn’t matter to me, it does. I real. It’s a really cool record, sonically its really
think music needs to accomplish that goal, but cool. Zoro played drums on it, he’s so world
there was less risk to that in my mind for some class, and we have great drum sounds at my
reason. I’ve kind of gotten back to when music new place. Even when it came to the drums,
is authentic and its authentically created and we went off to get mixed, and the first mix
you really bring all that you have to the table, came back and I was like, “I think there are
people will get that. And it will actually mean drum triggers on the drums”. So I called the
more to them than music that’s more polished engineer and he had added them. I said, “No
or more dialed. triggers. Just use what’s there.” And he did a
phenomenal job on the mixes, it sounds great.
It dawned on me that when you record a chorus
on vocal or guitar and then you copy and paste There is even something which I’ve never done
it to the other two choruses, as a listener you where there is a legit trio version of the Vince
can hear the “copy and paste” repetition. It is through every chorus. There are no ‘two takes’ Guaraldi “Linus and Lucy” song. We did a literal
why a lot of newer music doesn’t have a long floating around. We had to recreate this little translation, I think I played the exact piano part
shelf life like some of the old classic music. drum loop thing at the beginning of “Miraculum” that he played on my guitar, except there were
and literally it was me walking around my studio two licks that were physically not possible, at
We called it the new album A Mostly Acoustic with mallets, putting mics on chairs. To get the least not for me. Its almost like an old seventies
Christmas because I had to play some electric backbeat sound we mic’d the floor in my studio approach to it. Zoro just played this amazing
on it. I couldn’t say it was an acoustic Christmas and put reverb on it, it sounds awesome! groove on the drums and Norm played that
(laughs). So, it was a full band, lots of acoustic
classic left hand piano line, so Norm was kind
stuff on there but I play some electric too. And We really wanted it to all be authentic and we kind of made some rules. It was all going I’m really proud of it, it came out cool. I did to be played live, we’re not beat detective-ing, some different things even vocally and some It was fun, really just a blast to make, and it
we’re not in grid mode, it’s all like we used to do things that are more exposed. We redid all of was very inspiring. Approach wise, that’s what
it. I played all of the percussion on the album. the strings stuff from “Miraculum” with a live were going to take into this next new album
I played every tambourine, and I played it orchestra, so every string part on there is all as well.
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of the left hand and I was the right hand.
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