Recording came to a close last Thursday night at Thundering Sky with good friends Jesse Dold and Courtney Brocks lending sweet harmonies to a number of tracks. The session was incredibly productive and efficient, although those words make it seem robotic when in actuality it felt like swimming with the current. I’m amazed at Jesse’s [...]
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Studio Journal: April Fool’s Day, 2010
Studio Journal – 1/20/10
Driving home from Thundering Sky at midnight tonight, I dodged goose feather snowflakes in my Element while listening to piano sonatas. It was the perfect backdrop for my mind set, at once born of exhaustion and absolute joy. It’s interesting to me how tough it is to finish. Anything. I wrote about this a few [...]
Studio Journal – week of 12/7/09
This week we returned to Thundering Sky Studios to begin putting the wraps on my debut solo release. The first session included returning road warriors Adam Terrell (guitarist for Assembly of Dust and the Nate Wilson Band) and Jason Cohen (keyboardist for Ryan Montbleau Band). It was a homecoming of sorts, as I haven’t seen [...]
Studio Update and some FAQs
Thursday night I witnessed perhaps one of the most amazing first-time studio performances ever. Performing music live is unnerving. Recording is like going to the supermarket in your birthday suit. You are undressed to the soul.
New Videos Added
Check out the Videos page. I’ve added a video from last week’s session at Thundering Sky, and also a live-from-my-living-room version of Open Me.
