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Thursday, 23 June 2005
Sweden, day 13 ::
Today we recorded Jens playing drums. On Talking Points: a second layer, accents/fills/cymbals. Serentripidy: a straight groove to ground Jorge’s wonderful whirling programmed percussion). Agents of Change: a shuffle groove which Justin and I were pretty skeptical of at first—it’s an orchestral/TV theme kind of piece—but Christoffer was very confident in the idea, and we can always leave the track out of the mix, so we recorded it. And it was utterly awesome. Reminded me of that thing about songs taking on lives of their own. Then Jens added the final bit of magic glue to one 90-second section of Cobblestone Mirrors, and in the last 10 minutes, we recorded him playing over the whole track, which he’d never heard (and which bears little resemblance to the one section he’d worked out). Some of that fit nicely and will be used, I suspect.
Justin took Jens back to Malmö so I had dinner with Christoffer and family. After dinner, Christoffer took some time off while I finished gluing together the rough edges in the new arrangement of Where You Lay and started in on the remaining string charts. After maybe 90 minutes, Christoffer came in and started preparing the studio for the string players. Justin returned and helped Christoffer. By midnight, all the string parts were done. There was a silly episode with finding a printer driver for C’s printer. Justin and the Internet came to the rescue. The string charts were sitting in a nice pile on top of my keyboard when we left the studio at the entirely sane hour of 1 am.
Tomorrow promises to be a long day—Helena arrives to sing at 11 am, and the string quartet arrives at 5 pm.
C’s wife asked if I felt homesick. I thought about it and said, no. I mentioned that this area reminds me a lot of the countryside around Ithaca, where I grew up. I thought about home for the first time today when I saw that my bill payer service had received an electric bill that was a little larger than I expected. I just wondered if I’d left anything on. There are people I miss talking to, but I don’t miss my usual routine—I have my musical tools and I’m spending most of my energy making music, so what more could I wish for?
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