Song #1 - February

Download the first song here

[Edit: There may be a problem downloading the song with some browsers. You can download this and all future songs from here: www.freewebs.com/largeelasticband/tracks.html
Let me know if you have any problems.]

Now what am I supposed to say? I guess I started this blog as a way to talk about my music project and to publish the songs so that they would all be in one place. But I never really thought about what else to put in the song posts. Hmmm. I'm not going to really discuss what the songs are about. I toyed with the idea of putting the lyrics for each song up here. Now I'm not so sure about that. Seems a little personal or maybe just a little too much information. What does that leave? Boring, nerdy, music-tech analysis? You're not that lucky!

Well, I worked on this one for most of February. It's very hard for me to find time to do the vocal tracks because I do most of my recording in the middle of the night when the rest of the house is asleep. So I was frustratingly close to finishing for about 10 days. The drums are a little high in the mix and this mp3 sounds pretty compressed. You can really notice the loss in quality from mp3 format sometimes. Trust me, it sounds waaaaaaaaay better at my house.

This song has a little bit of piano. That won't happen often. I suck at the piano and it makes me sad. Other than that, I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. This is the first song that I've recorded in at least three years. It took forever to get the equipment tweaked and balanced just so. That's never been my favorite part of the process, but once it was over, everything came together. It was really fun.

Next song is already in progress. Should be done on time. I just need to find a marching band, theremin, and a master of the Malagasy valiha. It's gonna be crazy!


If you need the main song download page again:
http://www.freewebs.com/largeelasticband/tracks.html
Right click on the song title and select "Save Target As."