thenepotist says:
This is Full-time Work.
I’m sipping coffee and waiting for Nate to arrive for our afternoon session. We’ll finish the last of sixteen recordings we’ve made this month. Sixteen! The last time we recorded sixteen songs in a batch we were sixteen ourselves, working on the IY record Further Gone. That was seven years ago. For better or worse, our teenage stamina hasn’t left us.
These days are long. We work late (early), usually until about 2 or 4 in the morning. Then wake at about 11, make three different kinds of coffee* and head straight back to work. Since July 26th we’ve taken one or maybe two days off. Since May 18th, we’ve been in tour rehearsals, on tour in Australia, in record rehearsals, or recording, all days but eight. (We took nearly a week off after the tour, a week I have almost no memory of. Perhaps I slept?)
Ironically we’re wishing we had exactly one more week to finish this record, but that’s the way these things go. We needed that time off.
I have a friend who cooks only while in a good mood. She can taste bad energy. I’m not sure I can taste it, but I hear it well, and I’ve no interest recording any. Here’s a strange sentence for you: We’ve worked hard to keep this work fun. I’m not kidding. Be suspicious if you hear bad energy in these recordings. You may be confusing bad with evil.
So now we’re sitting on sixteen songs. If you’ve been to a show recently, you’ll know some. Others are new. I have a feeling they’ll show up here before anywhere else, so let’s keep in touch about that.
be good,
Chris
*Re: three different kinds of coffee — John likes his from a french press. Dana makes proper espresso drinks from a proper espresso machine. I drink an odd hybrid born of an aluminum moka pot. And Nate? He’s adventurous, and drinks all three. (Not all at once. Not necessarily.)
