Comments on: Track #8: Don’t Look Away

By: theflyingchange

theflyingchange — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:52:28 +0000

Those are some wise words, my friend. I completely agree.

By: All_Knowing

All_Knowing — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:50:25 +0000

I am not annoyed.
The magic is not lost on me.
Say about your song what you will.
I'm bringing my experience
and I'm moving in.
It belongs to me.
~Monte

By: theflyingchange

theflyingchange — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:52:28 +0000

Those are some wise words, my friend. I completely agree.

By: All_Knowing

All_Knowing — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:50:25 +0000

I am not annoyed.
The magic is not lost on me.
Say about your song what you will.
I'm bringing my experience
and I'm moving in.
It belongs to me.
~Monte

By: paulbrill

paulbrill — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:53:01 +0000

I love that stuff, too. only, Bill says – “Ok, so it's a fucking Neumann…” as in, microphone, as i was blathering on about some mic that we had used on the guitar that sounded amazing…it obviously needed to be kept…

By: theflyingchange

theflyingchange — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:07:29 +0000

The 'i don't know' and then Bill in 'Burning a Horse' saying “this is a
fucking moment” are all instances of these found sound spoken word moments
that I want to explore more explicilty in the next record. Like that thing
you did with your artist friend. I love the undercurrent of conversational
remnants against the other elements.

By: paulbrill

paulbrill — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:40:16 +0000

and also – while we were trying to figure out what to do with the song, we had a session with Rob Burger and Antoine Silverman, trying different ideas out. Rob came up with the idea to approach the piano entirely differently – in a minor mode – against the current of the band. I treated that performance – which was unrehearsed and a one-take – pretty heavily. it ends with Rob asking, “I don't know…”, which you can hear as the song fades out. The violin was cut, i think, as was some guitar that we tried with Marc Shulman? not sure on that one. at the end, you can hear both rob's piano line and matt's original figure.