My latest release is a collaboration between two friends, Michael McEnany and Patrick Wolfkill, and myself. We met in my home studio, did some tracking, and wrote the music for Go Slow. We had no idea what the song was about, at that point. I wrote the lyrics, played acoustic, stitched the song together, and started to flesh out the arrangement. Mac played bass, Pat played the one electric. I programmed the drums, B3, piano, and layed main vocals and harmonies. Mac came back to finish off the bass and added some vocal harmony, too. I finished of the tracking with some B-Bender, some Tele lead, and then brought out my venerable Kramer, with the Floyd Rose locking trem to finish off the bridge lead solo.
I tried to do some new things mix and production-wise. Some things worked out and others go yanked. I tried some binaural panning, to get the sound of something going by and above you, and then echoing off the surrounding canyon walls with doppler effect. Automations detailed work was needed in a couple parts, including the B3 part, where I automated the Leslie rotor speed and volume swells. I brought out an e-bow for some etherial guitar pads in the bridge. As usual, I had some help on the mix and production from Falling Waters Studio and friend Brad Rudolph.
Adding to the music, I pulled together a nice music video using a new resource and tool for me. Storyblocks.com and their Maker tool enables you to put together videos with a nice library of clips. I was able to search their catalog with key words from the song and put together a cool video for the music. Looking forward to creating some nice videos for my other new songs.
Related to Ukraine, new friends, Shaunessy and Amalei, who raise funds for medical support in Ukraine, did the beautiful cover art for me.
Go Slow should be out and available in a couple of days. I just submitted it today.