Hey groovers
I'll have to start using code now for the bands as the names are too long. Actually FTR has a nice ring to it.
Mastering the Blue Valentine CD next week in Melbourne at Dex Audio. Haven't been to a mastering session since Festival studios in 1994 for the first Figtree Renaissance CD. Work has started on the cover which will be a nice shiny 8 pager with lyrics/recipes/giveaways and horoscopes??
Figtree Renaissance started work on an EP as I said in the last post. You can have a preview of one of the tracks called WYSIWYG
Follow the links to the track
Have a few cool ideas for the EP and one includes samples of Simple Minds and Donna Summer. Very chic but powerful. I'd better not give away too much too soon, but then I could never keep my mouth shut.
A licensing company in the UK called makin-trax.co.uk are interested in licensing the WHOLE first FTR album for soundtrack use in advertising, waiting for a contract proposal to be sent.
Ben Cox [Mixer/Loopman] and Carina are comin up to Mudgee over the next few weeks so we might even end up in the sttudio, who knows, depends on Daves availability. Gimme the computer now!!!!
Carina had a huge gig last week in Sydney for the launch of the charity she has co-founded. She has lots of new lyrics which is good because I have lots of music.
Discovered a really cool act from the UK who rock in a totally different way. The Noisettes sound like a cross between Nina Hagen and the Stooges. Check out their clip for "Don't give up" on their myspace page. One review said she sings like Billie Holiday on PCP. Love it!!
News from Figtree Food and Music on Current releases by Richard Lawson and his movements in music, food and etc. Also news on The Electronica Show on Shoalhaven FM and the upcoming Gulgong Music Festival
Thursday, 14 June 2007
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Started 2nd Figtree Renaissance album?
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.
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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