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We have 4 drums tracks in the bag for the new Ledaswan record and last night we started tracking the bass. We got 2 songs down, "Faulkner" and "What a way to Drown". The other 2 songs, "56 Chevy" and "Six is Better" will be done on Wednesday, which means that we will most likely start tracking guitars for those 4 songs this weekend.
Amanda was very cool under all the picking that David and I did on every part of her track. "Hmmm, that note isn't played with enough intensity." or "did you accidentally hit another note under that note? Something sounds weird." A lot of "Just do this whole part over again".

But overall the tracks sound way better for it. We will have some footage of Amanda cutting bass up real soon.

We debuted a new song last night. It's tentatively titled "Class of 88", for no reason in particular. Just the beats per minute it is. Playing new songs is always exciting for us. here is a clip from last night's performance. Expect this to make it to the new album. Special thanks to Damien Cortez for filming it.

Thanks to Jenny Machete for taking these

We started recording drums and little bit of guitars last weekend.

We have no title for the new record yet. We haven't even thought about it much. But we do know it's going to have some great songs and it will be a full length. We have been writing a lot lately. Lot of new songs have come from just jamming and putting parts together on the spot. lots of mistakes have made it into the songs. That's partly the whole excitement of writing this way. Things seem to happen. Like "magic".
So we started laying down drum tracks this last weekend. We started off with laying down 4 songs. On our last 2 EPs, we just had Delrick go in and cut all his drum tracks (7 each time) in about 4 to 5 hours. Friday, we went in and just got drum sounds. For about 6 hrs, we just hit drums, recorded them, adjusted mics, retuned them. Till it all seemed to come together to sound like a solid booming beackbeat we wanted to hear.



Saturday, we started the real recording. Only after, we hit one drum for 2 hrs before recording anything. We repositioned and moved that around till we were happy. We got 2 drum tracks down that day. "Faulkner" and "56 Chevy".

Sunday, we went back and cut "Six is Better" and "What a way to Drown". I really feel this is the best that Delrick has ever played. He rewrote a lot of parts while we were recording.





While we were in there, I played Delrick a piece of music I had made with some loops and weird sounds. He immediately jumped on the drums and told me to roll tape, adding his own drums to the mix. We added some huge backing drums as well. Late Sunday night, David and I pulled out the guitars and colored the rest of the song. I don't know what is going to become of this song as of now, but I can tell you it sounds like nothing we've done, but is pretty amazing. I'm excited to see what comes up of it.

We shot a lot of video, that we will put up soon. So, we seem to have a lot of work to do now. We will complete these 4 songs and get to work on recording the rest of the songs as we finish them. This is a very exciting time for us. We hope to see everyone come out to the shows and see what we have been up to. We have a great show this Saturday, Jan 17th at Scout Bar. Also on the bill will be Sandoz and Heather Go Psycho. Show starts at 10pm. Ledaswan goes on at 12am.

Labels: ledaswan, ledaswan shows, new record, recording

Hope everybody had a great start to 2009