What a productive week!! I am so excited. And now it's time to move another mountain, vocal harmonies-wise over the weekend.
But check out this photo: it's a snapshot of my vocals on the screen in waveform. Coincidence? I think not! 🙂
Perhaps I am an alien, after all.
Yes, I know I have not written for a bit. This must be corrected immediately.
But I have been hard at work in the studio. Some photographs coming soon, as Missy Washington will get in here and immortalize me and Greg (unless he decides to hide in the bathroom).
I have been learning so much, and one of the most pleasurable things has been making vocal arrangements.. for which I locked myself in a very small closet this past weekend in order to be able to get some definitive takes of vocal harmonies and avoid construction noises next door. The closet is VERY small. I'll post a picture.
Right now it's 1 pm, and I have been working non-stop, kind of, since yesterday morning at 8 am. That includes studio 11-8 pm, then home, a bite to eat, some practice, and more work. To wake up at 630 am this morning to do more work, and then rush to the studio again. But it's all very much worth it. The thing about vocal arrangements is that they take time – you try various lines and some work and others don't. Then you create layers of them. And you have to be in tune. It is rather laborious and highly addictive. I can understand why Imogen Heap spends days and weeks coming up with hers and then tweaking them. Give me a house somewhere in the country, a piano, a recording set-up and I can spend months just layering oodles of vocals on top of each other. Hmm..
Well, back to work. For now, is this wrong of me to covet this dress? Worn with panache by a compatriot Natalia Vodyanova. Mind you, looking at it reminds me that after studio time, I need to start swimming every day because I am becoming a sedentary creature. Eek. Once I am done with this record, I am onto a new phase of extreme girlish elegance.
Take a stroll through the winding corridors of the museum of your heart. See the fascinating displays on the walls. Over there are emotions you used to feel. And over here are situations you once found difficult. All these memories you keep encountering are experiences that were once a part of you and are now a part of your past. One day, even the intense drama you are currently going through will sit motionless in a glass case with a label attached to it.
Hold tight to that understanding.
There are dragons
living in my head.
All it takes is one exhale
from the smallest one:
(I call him Pipperstick)
and my whole body is on fire.
Fortunately for me
they like the slumber
so I get time off
from herding these large,
carnivorous creatures.
There was a boy once
who sang them to sleep. You,
on the other hand,
are loud and brash,
with your rusted bugle.
How dare you
challenge my dragons?
You are a survivor
of a different siege.
You know nothing
of the dragons of the North:
the way they swoop,
and grin
before consuming flesh.
Learn to sing, boy
or better yet: become a Man;
for your enchantment
is not meant to last.
You are not a match
for the smallest of their leathery brood,
while I offer no protection
once the fiery cloud
descends upon your heart.
(eik 2010)
CAPRICORN
(for week starting September 11)
Make Monday your deadline for crunching any nostalgia, regrets re ancient relationships and no-longer-you yearnings. Mercury goes direct and you’re back in the now, a power-Capricorn, leaving everyone else gaping at your genius. Pluto is also moving forward this week, supporting your most cherished self-transformation efforts. Love and money affairs set aside earlier in 2010 are soon back and on fab form.
(I attached the above pic because.. well, just because.. I had to! Flattery will get you everywhere)
