Shoebox

I've been working up a storm over here these past few days.  Lots and lots of tracks of strings and harp.  My good friends Stacy and Darren are going to come into town in less than a week to do some more work on her album.  By the way, do any of you ever accidentally start typing @ signs in front of people's names outside Twitter?  When you think about it, that's a very strange habit to form...

So, Stacy has really hit her stride this past month.  The demo's she's been sending me are simply stunning.  Oh, if you're not sure who these people are, read the post I did last year about the project here.  After about a week of drowning in my own bad ideas, I finally fell in love with a few ideas last night.  The song is pretty simple; piano, vocals, drum loop, and harp for most of the song.  So I started messing around with doing some poly-rhythms with the strings later on in the song.  As I told Darren in a text after writing it, it's either a train wreck or it's brilliant.  Ok brilliant is a stretch...  So I'm off to work today to see if I still love my little idea.  That's always the ultimate test, listening the day after.  It's kind of like writing a love letter in Junior High.  You may write a masterpiece of a letter late at night, but when you read it the next day, you just end up tossing it into a shoe box.  So we will see.

Thanks for reading.

Jeremy

Comments

[LoFiDad]

Elizabeth does this all the time with her art, getting away and then coming back......................................We call it perspective!

[kat]

coool! its crazy im actually from pretty close to where they are from. small world. my "stomping ground" in high school were tyler tx. haha.

[Jen]

I'm so excited to hear what you and Stacy and Darren are coming up with. The show in March was absolutely spectacular, and I know that everything to come, even if it gets caught in the fledgeling stages for a while, will be beautiful. That's the best part–when you catch up with the fleeting genius and have that euphoric moment of overwhelming certainty: this is it.

Good luck, but enjoy the journey, too.