30YRSL8 Recording Diary - Entry # 2

This is a recording musician's dream: I got an email from Marc, 30YRSL8's keyboard player, saying that the CBC has build a new state-of-the-art studio (Studio 14, to be exact) in their shiny new downtown Ottawa facilities -- and that they need a band to come in and do some recording to help work out the kinks and show the CBC management what it can do. Oh, and they can keep the recorded music, and the band gets paid.

So, last Friday the band moved into the studio for the day to record several of our new songs. The songs were recorded live through their Pro Tools based system, with no overdubs. I'm thinking that with very little clean-up we could have at least two candidates for the new CD out of the sessions:

1. Le Spot "G" -- A song that swaps between a playful but heavy section and a rip-roaring, syncopated solo section, where Marc just lets loose on a wild electric piano solo. The song is so named because our Canadian Retail Distributor, APCM would like us to name more songs in French to promote ourselves more accurately as a bilingual entity in Canada... As with some of our best songs, we just played this song one day. There were no pre-written parts, just spontaneous composition at the practice.
   
2. Chaotic Bottom -- So named because it's the preset name for the ultra-noisy guitar sound I use on this song. Mike Raymond, brought this in with visions of an ultra-heavy bass- and drum-driven song. It all started with a simple bass figure and mutated into all of that plus some cool 11/8 time signature work. A wholly masturbatory solo from me and very tasty synth solo in a lush prog-rock setting for Marc.

Pics, and people's names to follow.