Last week was the ten month anniversary of when we began working with our producer Ben Calhoun on our first record. Now if you had told us then that it would take 10+ months to finish the CD we probably would have cried a little and maybe thrown something in a manner that expressed extreme frustration and impatience. Originally we promised you a CD at the end of spring. That didn’t happen, and I don’t want you to cry or throw something either, so here’s a little update to let you know what we’ve accomplished and where we are at in the journey. I won’t go into a lot of details about what happens at each step because Kendel wrote a blog doing exactly that so you can check it out here if you feel inclined (http://thelalasoflife.blogspot.com/2011/11/process-of-making-our-cd-9-months.html ). Over the past 10 months we have had 43 sessions in the studio.
Here is a little time line of our journey on this CD making project. I hope it makes you excited. I hope it explains why things have been delayed and dissuades you from throwing rocks and forming an angry mob outside my window. I live in a basement so even if you throw like the main kid from Sandlot you’ll still easily be able to bash my window in with a rock.
December we started making rough demos of the songs, recording on my laptop in my mom’s basement. We used stage mics and everything was very rough and very ghetto, but it actually was a pretty helpful stage.
January 13th we began working on preproduction with Ben. The brand new (and still under construction) Ember records at Judson became our home as we began arranging songs and figuring out instrumentation.
April While we were still finishing preproduction on some songs, we began recording final versions of others. We started with the main instruments such as piano, guitar, and ukulele.
May 19th Met our lifelong friends drummer David R. P. Blascoe and Bass slapper Ben Blascoe and began recording percussion and bass.
May 20th- Finished preproduction for all songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This was a good day)
May 25th Kendel recorded her first lead vocal track
June 8th was visited in studio by Grammy nominated Matt Dally of Superchick. Kendel recorded a lead vocal with him the studio…..talk about intimidating right?
Mid July-Recorded last acoustic guitar track
Late July- Recorded last piano track
August recorded lots of drums, bass, and background vocals
September 1st - I recorded my first back ground vocals
September-Lots and lots of vocal recording
October 27th Kendel recorded last lead vocal track
November 10th I recorded harmonica and electric guitar (yup that’s right)
November 10th A new friend Lukas O’Donnel came out and recorded bassoon for us
November 13th New friends Rachel Matthys and Kelsey Murray came out and tracked some strings (violin and cello) for us.
November 17th Rachel and Kelsey came back to the studio and we finished recording strings.
So where does that leave us now you ask?
At this point:
All lead vocals are recorded
All piano has been recorded
All acoustic guitar has been recorded
All ukulele has been recorded
All strings have been recorded
All yodeling has been recorded (we think)
95.67% of drums have been recorded
83.97% of bass has been recorded
Most back ground vocals have been recorded
We have a little recording left to do and then we turn to editing (which has actually already been started), mixing, and mastering. We really are in the home stretch. So please put down your rocks, torches, and pitchforks, put on some party hats and get pumped for the CD which will be released on…………....a date in the somewhat near future………we think
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