Currently I'm working on a couple of things. Like usual...
Noteworthy are a new The Girls album in progress, an album with Mongolian, Peking-based folkrockers Hanggai, an album with unsigned Dutch artists (Secret Umbrella, Avant La Lettre, Saelors, Feed The Rabbit, Mattanja Joy Bradley and Novack) and a record for Belgian TV-star Jelle Cleymans. Also... in between... we're starting to rehearse with De Dijk. We have an interesting record on the shelves, but we're in writing process. It's scheduled for early 2011. Furthermore I've been asked to do a record for the "In a cabin with..." series and if that's all gonna work out, that will be nothing less than a historical document! Oh, and somewhere later on this spring I will be working on a christmas album too! I kid you not! |
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 I got home after a great gig with De Dijk. Blindin' really... Enjoying my new garden doors and chilling out after a very intense month mainly recording the new Acda en de Munnik album. So much things happened I don't even know where to start... Ummm... Let's see, well, we moved to ICP C studios which actually has my favourite desk; an old but very well maintained Neve broadcast desk, mainly consisting of 1091 modules, but with some routing and handy switching going on. It was such a difference to hear the tracks we'd layed down on the SSL 4000 through that desk. Much more openness, etc. June was pretty much either being in Brussels when not gigging.
I celebrated my birthday at ICP for the fourth time. I guess that says a lot.
Anyway; we had some pressure going on finishing the single, but we also had to finish the recordings...
And.. there was something going on with the single that needed some push over the cliff!
So, my first call guy Frans was in Curacao, building his rockstar retreat on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean Sea. He was out.
Second call was Van Dyke Parks, which whom I'd worked on stuff a while ago. He was willing to write a VDP-style arrangement. And I got a date with the Metropole Orchestra. Third call was to get Ken Stringfellow in, whom I'd met while recording my solo-album (yeah, it's mastered, finished and due for release sept. 14th 2009 on V2 records!).
So, yeah, two pretty wild decisions! And guess what; this might be the best track I've ever done with AedM.
We had some tough hours with the Met Orchestra because of Van Dyke's insane yet beautiful ideas.
And I was so lucky to have a guy as talented as Ken on my side to be like really down to earth about it all and approached it so no-nonsense like. As he went through the tracks and kinda monitored him I knew quite soon it was going to work. After a while he asked if he could add some stuff like tambourines and a hammond. So I went; yeah...ok...let's see... All fuckin' brilliant. Bless him!
The ICP resources were pretty cannibalized because we had full on sessions going on in A and B; Ed Bueller doing a band which might just well be the band you all are going to like in a month or 3; some French famous dude full plugged in, and us having studio C and D for mixing and dubbing. The cooks were cooking their spoons off!
In between I had all these minor mixes and dubs for other people going on and in all honesty; I didn't sleep a lot over the last couple of months. But that's gonna change soon! Gonna take a little break in order to go full blast again from half august on. I just found out I'm basically pretty much booked (well, I've got the odd coupla days...) until december 2011. So I guess I'm fine crisis-wise! |
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