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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:58:25 -0400

Five Colors Now on Spotify!

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:06:00 -0400

Five Colors Now on Spotify!

A shot of the beginning of No. 2

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:33:02 -0400

A shot of the beginning of No. 2

I did a quick and compressed sketch of Three Items of Business...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:42:44 -0400

I did a quick and compressed sketch of Three Items of Business at home…

An alternate take of Sullivan Fortner’s piano solo on...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:52:00 -0400

An alternate take of Sullivan Fortner’s piano solo on “Something Less” from Five Colors

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note: this solo is note on the album, it’s an alternate solo take

STREAM AND/OR DOWNLOAD FIVE COLORS NOW AT...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:08:00 -0400

STREAM AND/OR DOWNLOAD FIVE COLORS NOW AT http://truansavage.bandcamp.com

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Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:39:57 -0400

I’m happy to debut the first final track from “Five...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:24:04 -0400

I’m happy to debut the first final track from “Five Colors”. Featuring Chris Mees on bass and Kassa Overall on drums, this will be the final track on the album.

A shot of the chart for “Roots”

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:55:09 -0500

A shot of the chart for “Roots”

This is a brief sketch I made of the first track on Five Colors,...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:23:04 -0500

This is a brief sketch I made of the first track on Five Colors, “Roots”. This is a song I toyed around with on piano, hoping to develop it into a larger composition. I eventually realized, however, that it worked best as it stood, as a sort of introduction. There is no melody, the melody is (again) in the repetitive bass line and chord movement, but it works well as a piano feature (which is what it is on the record).

Slow goin’ in the studio…back in January 2011

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:10:00 -0500

Slow goin’ in the studio…back in January 2011

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Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:06 -0500

Getting closer to finally posting some final tracks, but in the...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:06 -0500

Getting closer to finally posting some final tracks, but in the meantime here is an alternate take to “The Lie”. The final take sounds quite a bit different than this, for a variety of reasons, but I’m still happy to finally be posting a full take of something from one of the sessions. Hope you enjoy…

Featuring:

Sullivan Fortner - Keys

Chris Mees - Bass

Alex Ritz - Drums

Recorded at Sear Sound in NYC on January 18th, 2011

Chief Engineer - Sean Mair

This is the bass part for the head of “Something...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:27:42 -0500

This is the bass part for the head of “Something Less”. This tune, perhaps like many of mine, is very bass heavy, hence the largely-written part. Also, the rhythm of the chord changes stays pretty consistent throughout the solos, so while note choices for the bassist free up, the rhythm is still informed from the melody.

The bar of 3 near the end arrived out of necessity. What I mean by that is that the composition came about organically, and then when I wrote it down I realized I had dropped a beat somewhere. But that’s how the melody worked, so I had to write it in somewhere. In previous versions of this chart the bar of 3 was in different places, and it’s interesting to see how it’s movement can effect how it sounds. It probably makes the most sense where it is right now, but it by no means is supposed to be there.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:01:00 -0500

Almost there...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:49:00 -0500

2 and 1/2 recording sessions done… Countless hours of post-production… 2 mixing sessions done… And half left to go. I expect “Five Years” to be completely mixed, mastered and ready for release by the end of the month.

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:47:00 -0500

Last Recording Session...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:27:56 -0500

…is tomorrow. Just a quick 4 hours to clean a few things up, and then on Saturday is the (hopefully) last mixing session.

We’re getting close here…

…and this is one of the takes. Same exact form as my...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:50:00 -0500

…and this is one of the takes. Same exact form as my roadmap below.

So one thing this session has not involved is a lot of...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:03:00 -0500

So one thing this session has not involved is a lot of rehearsals. Luckily, we have the internet. So in lieu of lots of practicing, and since all of these songs have been previously performed or recorded, we made do with exchanging mp3’s and charts via e-mail and a last minute run through. I’m pleased to say it has worked for the most part.

What has been most interesting, though, is hearing the almost immediate transformation of a song, as opposed to its slow progression from one form to another. Usually, it’s pretty difficult to document the process of a song’s development other than comparing the original version to the final version. But that would only tell you what it turned into, not necessarily how it got there, which in itself may involve hours and hours of rehearsals and run throughs. Because we had minimal rehearsal time, I ended up with really just two full versions of most tracks: the ‘roadmap’ I sent to the band, which usually was just me sketching out the track, and then the final performance. Hearing them side by side is interesting.

Here I have posted my ‘roadmap’ to the solo section of “I Was Serious”, and next i’ll post one of the band’s takes (not the final one).