Verses of Truth Trash and Beauty

Labels: bass, home recording, ledaswan, logic pro, recording, san antonio, san antonio music

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

Tomball, TX was fun...very different. Gary's Spot has a lot of regulars and they have a stripper pole in front of the stage. Ledaswan went on about 1030pm. We played with this great band from Houston called Harem Festival. Definitel check them out. We will probabl try to bring them out to SA. # Kisses ended out the night with songs that were cross between Avril Lavigne and Green Day...? What? Yeah!

Gary will have drink specials for for the amount of time that any girl is dancing on the strip pole. It was interesting to say the least. Everyone there was great and friendly. We were completely beat by the end of the night.

Here are some pictures from Gary's Spot last night:

Labels: gary's spot, ledaswan

We had our c.d. release and it's finally done! all the hard work we put into it, and we finally were able to hold it in our hands and sell it to our friends and fans last night. There are so many elements involved in the making of your very own c.d., money being the obvious. Apart from that there is the emotion, time, creative highs, creative lows, all adding up to a little healthy emotion we call stress. Today I just feel totally wiped out. I think we all felt wiped out juggling practice, last minute c.d. details, and our regular day jobs all the week prior to the release. We got a lot of press which is good. We were expecting more of a turnout considering the flyering and press we got. regardless people were there to see us play, and we didn't just have a bunch of people not paying attention or just going through the motions. All eyes and eyes were on us.

So where do we go from here? I begin to ask myself this question. With such a great c.d. well I guess we just want to play more shows and get it to as many people as possible. We are selling it on amazon.com for those who don't live in San Antonio and for those that are overseas. We also do paypal if you are a tactile person and want something to touch in your hands.

It seems we are slowly gaining fans one by one, which is great. Other times it can be discouraging when nobody is paying attention. But I think we would all play music alone or in front of 500 people. although 500 people might be really asking for it. I felt nervous last night in front of 25 people, all eyes on you. So again, what's better the chicken or the egg? Wait no, i meant which comes first... thy chicken or thy egg? The double edged sword is what life seems to be hinting to these days. I think after all the excitement of last night and anticipation gone, I'm feeling a bit low. Waiting for the next musical high.

Labels: c.d., female singer, ledaswan, ledaswan shows, mazzy star, music, san antonio, shows, smashing pumpkins