Flora et les animaux
By LeCroqueMonsieur on March 15, 2026 12:34 pm
Alright, coming in hot for a hard landing, late and with the worse setup (no computer at home and only my iPhone), timing (new flat, new job this month) and environment (baby at home, boxes everywhere and no amp) to record!
Never had more than a 20mn sessions to do anything. And I think I needed 2-3h to properly record the parts and do the mixing, but when I wrote that to my wife she wrote back “:D you'll be lucky if you get 2-3 hours of uninterrupted anything, in this household 
” so yeah. That’s the deal.
So thanks to dreat and BurnedOutSun for pushing me to start! I tried my best this week.
Buckle up, so origin of the idea came from listening to Cléa Vincent’s Samba (if you don’t listen to French indie jazz and indie pop (wtf), you heard it in Gran Turismo 7). She combines a pretty sad/minor scale for a genre that is quite upbeat (samba) with minimal instruments and creates a very compelling ambiance in her song.
I thus dug into the style of samba, for which I am completely oblivious, that I butchered, but tried anyway. Listened to a bunch of samba in Portuguese (Chico Buarque, Seu Jorge), French and English (thanks Stan Getz I suppose) and discovered a ton of cool stuff.
The prep was a mix of composing the beat on garage band on the way to work, writing the lyrics about my 10 months old daughter’s shenanigans with our pets, recording an acoustic guitar with a portable Zoom recorder and the weirdest setup of all for the bass, putting the body on a table and recording it this way… which works? Lyrics are in French because I simply never released anything written in French and I need to start somewhere.
Anyway, let’s see what I manage this week, exhausting. Enjoy the listen!
NB: recording sessions with a toddler bring their own levels of difficulty!
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