Studio Daze pt. 1
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Maz and I spent today in the studio working on our annual FoundatiOn Team EP. Our FoudatiOn Team EPs are our chance to experiment in the studio with recording different instruments and trying things we aren’t that comfortable with. Sometimes this will lead to a piece we’ll actually perform or put on our albums. Yamasong started as a recording idea for our first FoundatiOn Team EP and now we have a live performance version and it appears on our upcoming album as the original and a remix done by our studio mate Charlie Campagna.
This year’s theme for the EP is “13″. It all started with a collaboration we did with our Patrick Graham back in 2006. Patrick had all these cool rhythms in meters relating to thirteen: 13/4, 13/8, 13/16, 13/32 etc… We put together a song based on his ideas and performed it together a couple of times. Recently Patrick called and asked if we’d record parts for the piece for his upcoming album and we did a long distance recording collaboration. The piece, now called “Strikes 13″ turned out to be a lot of fun and is on his upcoming album and on our EP. (more…)