Feb
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
Jan
I Was Serious Solo - Take 2
…and this is one of the takes. Same exact form as my roadmap below.
Jul
Something Less (Rehearsal)
I wrote Something Less in 2007/08. Unlike What Is Small and Round, for example, this was a song a labored over for quite a while. I had probably 80% of it written, and I would play it obsessively myself. When I decided it needed to be finished, I forced myself through the remaining 20%. At that point, I arrived at the above version, which is the earliest recording I have of it (from a rehearsal).
Since then I’ve played the song many times with many different people, and the form remained the same until I brought it into the studio in 2011. In addition to an added coda and some new bass lines, I also took a new approach to the recording of it.
I will be posting more versions of this in the future, but in the meantime check out this rehearsal take from early 2008. Something Less in it’s most original form.
Apr
What Is Small and Round - Outtake
This is an unmixed, unedited outtake from the studio session in January. This is (most likely) not going to be used so I thought I’d post a little taste of what went on.
Like I said, this is unmixed. Pretty impressed with how the stuff sounded coming straight out of pro tools.
Jan
Full of It - Live
In mid-January, I went into the studio to have a piano trio record five of my original compositions (more on that later). This is one of the songs I brought in.
Probably my most ‘minimalist’ recording, “The Lie” (originally entitled “Full of It”) doesn’t even have a melody, and is just an 8-bar bass line, repeated. The only thing slightly different about it is that the first 7 bars are in 4/4, and the last bar is in 5/4.
Although simple, this song can be a good vehicle for improvisation, and I brought it into the studio for that reason and because I thought it would also be a good vehicle for post-production.
This recording is from 2007, in Brooklyn.
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