I had a couple friends come over yesterday, and they helped me write this song. I had already come up with a few song ideas this week, but after a few false starts, we decided to start fresh. I programmed up the drums using Soulfi, and the keys using Chord Prism feeding Klevgrand's Elpiano. I've been digging on adding ambient backing tracks like rain, or forest sounds, my wife has been listening to me combing through these sounds for the last week, kinda trying to pick out ones that might work for some of my projects. When we kicked off this song, she was like "hey why don't you put some city sounds oh this." I think the way the city sample sits in the mix really adds an extra dimension to the song.

I played the bass, which is going through darkglass microtubes infinity to my interface. My friend Jono played guitar, and did backup vocals. The guitar went into a tonex one then into the interface, I added delay in the daw. My other buddy Micah dropped by after Jono and I had a bit of the vibe going, his vocal performance and lyrics really inspires me, and I hope we'll get to collaborate again soon. The vocal chain was an sm58 into the interface, in the daw I added compression and a little distortion. I grouped the vocal tracks and grouped the instrumentation, I put trackspacer on the instrument group and had it ducked by the vocal group. It really helped the vocals cut through the mix. The guitar and bass were mostly recorded live at the same time, though the parts were edited down quite a bit because for each part we noodled for many minutes hahahaha.

The experience I had yesterday really reminded my why I love making music so much. The energy in the room, the way it feels to lock in with the drums and feeling of listening back to a take and knowing that's the one. The back and forth of opinions on how a part should go. Jono and I have been collaborating for years, but the frequency of our collaboration has been slowing down over the last year. I think we both came away from yesterday feeling like we want to pick it up again.

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