THE ART OF RECORDMAKING: Day 1

november ninth, two thousand-nine

hello world! it's me KB. 

today we have officially begun recording for the new and essentially debut album from yours truly. i'm very excited, because these songs will be the final fruition of a vision i had a long time ago. the songs are very important to me, which perhaps plays into why it's taken me so long to record them. as of right now, the record will be entitled "child of calamity." a quick run-down is in order. in musical terms, it will a rollercoaster. upbeat, downbeat, rocknroll, folk, gentle, unrelenting. it should have a little bit of everything. in literary terms, "child of calamity" will be a lyrical meditation on youth. i won't go into the irksome details, save those for the copious interviews with highly regarded elite music magazines in the future (ha!).

pre-production as a whole has come to its close. in the absence of drums (aaron w. haynes) and bass (scott e. lee), master engineer/producer/multi-instrumentalist/all-around-pretty-nice-guy-for-a-piece-of-shit-(justkiddingbutseriously) beau bedford and i started tracking for some of the down-tempo songs. today has been full of me, sitting in front of a group of microphones, singing like i was at home in the bathroom or in your living room, etc. it's been an organic day so far here at The Mansion.

oh yeah! almost forgot to mention... we're recording this ol' record in southlake, tx at beau's place of residence, a ten thousand sq. ft. mansion that i'll from here on out refer to affectionately as The Mansion. (here are some pictures.) it's got a cool billiards table for the competitive times, a nice bathroom for the cool reverby times (or the other not-so-cool bathroom times), a cool media room for the late night popcorn and movie times, and a cool grotto for the nasty party times.

anyway, today we've been focusing on a song called "my first love maria." don't worry, it's much more sentimental than the title sounds (ha!). i had the fine opportunity of tracking some harmonica in the shower today. not while i was showering, but you get the idea. three cheers for natural reverb!

taking a break from "maria" for now. about to start some tracking on "talk," a song i wrote in new orleans. gonna be cool. check back in with you soon, so as to not inundate you with too much in one day.

so cool,

KB

p.s. see the excitement!