putting down bones

on the way to the studio

Things have been full steam ahead for the past week or so and the tracks are starting to take shape.  Finding the right part for each instrument can be challenging, then suddenly it's quite magical when we find it.  I'm really happy about how things are going so far.  I don't know how much to tell you about the new music... maybe I should keep things under wraps so as not to spoil the surprise!

Yesterday was an especially awesome day, so we decided to take pics holding instruments that none of us had played.

hey

Today, Ken Pendergast was in again to play some way cool bass on two more songs.  Since it was all rainy and misty, it seemed like a good day to find something for Osmosis Song and it was :)  Now we have the bones... drums and bass... for five songs...

magic bass man

drums day 1

We have been doing lots of preproduction for the rest of the songs and now we're finally back recording, yayyyyyy!

Today was all about the big big drums for three different songs that range from jungle-y to jazzy.  We decided to do these three songs first because even though they have different styles they are probably going to share some instruments in common.

First Jeff did that miking magic that he does, to get us a big awesome sound.

overhead mics talking to each other

pillow that Jeff had to deliver out of the bass drum before we started (not out of that string bass, fortunately)

you can see where it came out... its twin is still in there I think

We had to cover a lot of different stylistic ideas in just one session, but Charlie is such a versatile drummer that he gave us lots of cool stuff to choose from.  We only just got started with the third song so we'll come back to that one next time, as well as cutting drums for 2 more songs.  Then we'll be adding other instruments on top of what we got today.

drum gorgeousness