recording musicians of bremen volume four

howard had posted over demo tracks (vocals and ukuleles) for  blue crystal fire and confiding in the evening star, both of which are sounding good and fried in reverb and delay.  there’s also a song called blind spot (for the moment) and some kind of drone thing called experiment. and there are loads of covers that could be done painbirds, turn your heater on, katie cruel, on the road again, even rain and snow could get a re-lick.

ok day one (sunday 26th may) of the horsemouth's guitar and vocal recordings

the tracks so far;

• katie cruel (taken a little fast truth be told). two guitars (tuned standard and daddad), a vocal each howard and horsemouth. (perhaps a little lap steel next). 
• confiding in the evening star. howard vocals and ukulele, horsemouth slide guitar, vocals on the chorus. not there yet (but coming along nicely). as an original song it will take a while longer to get it together. 
• blue crystal fire. ukulele and vocals howard. horsemouth, some tracks of e-bow guitar (a bit meh to be honest), acoustic guitar following the chords about (sightly discordant) sounding most elegant but a little darker than the original. once horsemouth had got a take down howard could hear the sense in it. 

day two (monday 27th may) horsemouth was round howard’s recording again. 

on sunday horsemouth had brought down the lap steel - he played two parts call and response on katie cruel with this and then they added a track of clapping to attempt to firm up the rhythm. (violin would be nice).

for confiding in the evening star horsemouth faked up an intro (based on the chorus) and this led him up and into the verse, he then got howard to extend out the song by another verse (they had not taken the precaution of recording it to click and so could not just copy and paste verses round the place) and essentially reprised the introduction through it. hence (for once) a more complicated structure than usual. again violin would be nice.

 the one they began fresh was painbirds

this they recorded to click - horsemouth did the guitar part on the paesold nylon strung guitar, then some vocals, howard did some vocals and then a double-tracked melodica part for the instrumental last verse. it’s a bit slow (but it might be better slow). horsemouth then doubled up some of the guitar with some from the resonator. it was sounding pretty decent by the time they had it done. (erm. violin maybe).

probably back to work saturday