Making a full length record, at long last!!!
So very excited. My husband (tuba player), our producer, drummer, bassist, and I (piano) are all in the studio recording basic tracks this weekend (and scratch vocals) and words cannot describe how amazing and fulfilling this process is for me.
At the end of a 12-hour day, last night I realized, wow this is what it feels like to put in a full day of hard work doing what you love … we worked our butts off and yet I could have kept going, it was such fun and engaging “work.” This must be why they say your “calling” is a labour of love.
It’s incredible to hear everything coming together, all the musicians’ parts and how each performer approaches the music … you can see how their years of training and innate talent lead up to on-the-spot interpretation of the songs - and how much that sounds like pure magic is pretty amazing.
It’s also cool to see the vintage recording gear meshing with the latest technology … the difference certain microphones or their placement can make, or how we still go for a full take of a song even though we could splice and dice the best bits together of each person’s stuff (but we can always listen back to every single note that was recorded throughout the entire project).
What’s most moving-and humbling-is how all of these people have come together to breathe life into the songs I put so much heart and soul into writing, and how they pour themselves into them, heart and soul, as well.
There is a much deeper level to the “music is the universal language” idea than I realized before … it’s not just that we are communicating ideas through song. We are communicating how we feel and who we are - individually and as a cohesive creative force.
And yet, making this record is not about us, or me, or even the songs we’re recording. What makes music universal is that it’s about you … how you feel when you hear this music, how it reflects and affects what is going on in your life at the time when these songs become part of it. In a way, you become a part of the music, and (I hope) it becomes part of you.
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