Last week saw the final mixes of the Blue Valentine CD completed. Tuesday I think. I'm not sure anymore as I developed "Log cabin fever" and started to lose the plot a bit.
Friday and Saturday I went back to the studio to work on "Avenue" and "Wysiwyg", tracks which were put down in 2004 at Sunpower.
I wanted to segue straight into the next project.
In hindsight it probably wasn't a good idea.
There is so much more to Figtree Renaissance, it is a very complicated beast.
Blue Valentine is traditional music. Traditional in the sense that it draws from Blues, folk, country and pop music, It uses acoustic instruments as its base and there is not much keyboard work.
Figtree Renaissance is exactly the opposite. All drum loops, computer generated keyboards and because everything is written on the piano the keys are different from your usual guitar songs.
Dave Miles and I found that we discarded a lot of the keys sounds from 3 years ago, especially on Wysiwyg in favour of new ones created on the day.
We did a lot of editing and a lot of the stuff was still being loaded over from old programs to the new "Cubase" program now up on his dashboard. By the end of the second day we both realised this was only going to be a demo of sorts for the internet site.
I will be taking the plunge into computer composition territory at home with a computer that Dave has built for me in return for drum lessons, so I will be doing a lot of pre production work, bringing down the studio costs.
Cletis Carr [Publicity/webmaster] has established contact with a European licensing company and they have a copy of the first Figtree Renaissance CD. There could be some soundtrack licensing on the way and they have Saatchi and Saatchi on their books.
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