barking road recreation ground (some felicities and infelicities)

horsemouth is up in the cloud forest. he has his coffee. he has fed the cats. the sun is shining into the tree canopy. 

yesterday he hung around the house and then walked down to walthamstow queen's street to get the train over to barking and thence east ham to visit howard. he arrived early and so spent a little time in a park (barking road recreation ground).

back at howard's they dived into mixing and editing the songs from the recent horsemouth recording campaign. 

the earlier edits can be heard over at musicians of bremen's soundcloud page. 

something's on your mind is probably the keeper from the session. but as horsemouth noted when he sang it 'there's probably a verse too many'  in that he repeats the second verse. horsemouth couldn't really see a way to alibi that and so decided it would be better to edit out his first attempt at the second verse and go with the second attempt instead. horsemouth was hoping there would be some felicities if they were laid side by side (particularly with the singing and the electric guitar part) but it just sounded confused. he layed down a track of him singing the main vocal over again to thicken it up.  job done (onto the next one)

jai guru. to horsemouth the main task was to edit out the bits where he was singing out of tune (to spare his blushes). howard on the other hand really wanted to drop the song down in its mid section. horsemouth wanted to rescue the second guitar but really the main thing should be to stay with the main 12 string guitar (anyway - he looks forward to hearing this mix). they succeeded in dropping it down in the middle and getting in an earlier fade at the end.

howard said he would probably re-record jai guru from scratch but horsemouth doesn't think they have time to do that. 

at some point in the middle of this they paused for a fried egg sandwich and a cup of tea (cheers howard). 

they listened to you and your sister but they couldn't find anything to do on it and so moved on. (ok there's a crunge on the guitar at one point but it's probably unfixable as horsemouth was singing and playing at the time).

having worked through the low hanging fruit they decided to get on with the more complicated stuff and the harder decisions. wondrous love they are probably going to junk. horsemouth was not singing well on the day/ they missed out the most important verse 'as I was sinking down...' 

murder ballad (aka. getting away with murder) they stuck some distortion on the vocal to make it a bit tougher and turned all the backing vocals and percussion (including horsemouth impersonating ivor the engine) back up and then chopped it so it was only playing when horsemouth was doing the backing vocals. (it's starting to sound good). 

no name resonate horsemouth is probably going to rename guitar peace for pier marton.  it's a guitar instrumental with a track of the resonator guitar playing the main theme  and two tracks of 12 string (probably panned hard left and hard right). it's probably just a matter of getting the sounds right (and removing the odd infelicity) 

if you have ghosts and  sometimes our dreams horsemouth thinks need keyboards (or harmonica and maybe the banjolin), high rise strutters' ball he thinks is pretty much fine as is (a few nips on the fake trumpets), hear us o lord is deeply problematic and may be another one for the junk pile. 

at this point horsemouth and howard decided to call it a day and nipped out for a quick pint at the pub with pizza before horsemouth headed off to his brother's house for dinner. after dinner he wandered back and fed the cats and watched a film on joe bussard (early recorder of john fahey, record collector and radio station operator) before bed. 

this morning. the cats laze in the sunshine. horsemouth plans breakfast and then a trip to the allotment to make sure everything is watered. later a journey off into walthamstow in search of second hand books.