A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 7:51 am
Well this is really something. I don't know the first thing about mixing so couldn't offer much beyond thinking it sounded really good, and enjoying it a great deal.
Thank you! The second side was made with layers and layers of stuff I played in real time. Then I went and removed a lot if it. Kind of like pouring a concrete block and then chipping away at it until you find the form. Here's the excellently pretentious, but honest blurb:
I started with a field recording of the roadworks that were keeping us up all through night during the lockdown. I walked with a shotgun mic, recorder, and headphones, trying to capture the best objects that I could could find. Hunting for sonic opals at midnight. Afterwards I listened to the field recording and tuned my guitar by ear to the resonant frequencies of the roadworks. I have a small steel rod that works well for prepared guitar, so I recorded a layer whilst listening to the field recording and treating it as the other half of a duo. Then I listened to these two layers together whilst playing sparsely. Now we are a trio you see? Then I listened to all three layers whilst playing a feedback drone by rocking my guitar back and forth across the top of my amp via a little old Prescription Electronics experience-fuzz that I have had for around 25 years. And the quartet has arrived. This damaged my guitar but it was worth it I think. The guitar parts were all tracked with multiple mics into separate channels, and every track was engineered independently, delicately, and very carefully. God, this took me over a month, working on it all night every single night, into the edge of dawn. There were so many layers of sound. I took to this block with a scalpel and cut and peeled and chiseled and filed and sanded and polished until its form was exposed. Campbell Parade nearly killed me. There is no rearrangement of any of the layers at all. Everything that you hear is heard exactly when it was played, and what you hear is what I heard when I was playing it. I know that it sounds like bullshit when I say this, but Campbell Parade is a jam.
