A Slow Process.....

I’m up “late” today at 7am and do some last minute post production and splicing work on Ian’s recordings from last week.

At 10, I drive to Ingliston Market to get some empty CD boxes (100 for £10 – bargain) and Plastic CD Wallets for the CD singles (200 for £5 – bargain)

Then it’s straight to Ian’s to pick him up and bring him back to Crispycat. We spend all day working on the album. First we sit down with an overview of what we’ve done so far and work out where we want each track to go from the instrumentation perspective. Then we play back some of the tracks we’ve done already and decide what’s usable and what’s not..

We set to work on “Back On The Good Earth”, “Emerald City”, “Reveille”, “She Paints Landscapes” and a couple of instrumental tracks which Ian wants a pianist friend of his to play on the album – we spend around an hour trying to work out the chords and melodies as, although we have sheet music, neither of us is particularly proficient in the music reading department.

I’m sure you’ll find it interesting to note that, after six hours work we’d managed to increase the amount of music recorded for the CD by around 20 minutes. It’s a painstaking business this music lark…

After giving Ian a lift back home, Anne and I have the remaining curry from last night (mmm mmm) and then I spend the evening making up packages from orders from the Crispycat Website….