Recording the soundtrack for a new spaghetti western
Well, my main goal for break was to get started on a 5 song recording project I am doing with my wonderful cousin, Chuck. Yesterday we began tracking and I can't wait to show the songs off.
I have had this project sitting in my head for awhile. Almost every song that I write borders on old country, but has something that makes it stand apart. My initial thought was a drum and bass country album ala Beck's Mutations, but after showing the songs to Chuck what we have is more of a modern spaghetti western. We just keep talking about the old "craptastic" movie, West World and how these songs could have graced that soundtrack.
So far we have started work on a song called "Josiah Cane." "Cane" is a bout a son of a gunslinger who faces both hating what his father did and wanting revenge on those who slew him.
Under the whole mix is a drum loop made from a sample of an old freight train and small hisses of electricity like a rattlesnake under your boot. An old bar room piano pulls against the chugging country guitar and a haunting fiddle counter melody (while writing it I could feel the joy of making music flood back into me) pulls against the vocal.
The bridge crashes up as the loops fall away and a Wurlitzer backs the lines:
I remember you with kinder eyes
A smile warm on your face
The last thing you said was ‘son forget this life’
But when I buried you I could feel your rage.