Avec organ!* *For those of you who don’t “parlez français”, that means “with organ!”

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I have been working on my song, just forgetting to upload it! Now it has vocals, which are almost done, but not quite. The whole song is kinda like that, actually. Almost done, but not quite. I’m remembering how to mix, though some of my subtle little tricks have escaped me, and I’m actually finding [...]

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Well, hello. As some of you are surely aware, because I can’t stop talking about it in real life or on twitter, I started grad school last week. So, while I still plan to record songs and kind of have a vague hope that people will like them, I don’t know if I’ll be able [...]

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I’m back from my nearly two weeks of family/wedding/honeymoon insanity, but I have to move and start grad school in the next 11 days so don’t expect much from me yet. In case you are curious, getting married was awesome, and it’s a shame that if things go as planned I’ll never get to do [...]

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Here’s some real navel-gazing action for you: a word cloud of my lyrics. I’ve included all 9 songs from The Fortnighter, as well as a few unreleased songs. Funny-shaped wordy goodness is from Wordle.net.

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Congratulations to Goudy Bookletter 1911. The venerable font won the voting 5-2-0-0, with Sorts Mill Goudy as the only other font to gain votes. This is interesting, actually. When I first put those four fonts together, Goudy Bookletter 1911 stood out to me as the clear favorite. I loved the letter spacing, particularly between the w and [...]

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During my break from recording songs, I have been working a bit on some visual elements for my little corner of the internet. I have an idea I really like for a new album title and album cover when this batch of songs I’m working on becomes a coherent thing. I’m not going to reveal [...]

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And we have a release! Not much has changed between this version and the last. I tightened it up (that’s my go-to vague word that means “did a bunch of shit only I would ever notice needed done, but I’m crazy and did it anyway”) and bumped up the level a bit to match my [...]

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Finally, vocals that don’t make me throw up in my mouth! This is pretty much the arrangement in its final form. I’ll tweak the mix a little bit, and trim the vocals here and there so the ends of the phrases line up. But this, right here, is the song. I think I like it, [...]

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I forgot to post this one on Sunday because I was picking up Dr. J from the airport. It features a smoother mix and less crappy (but still not uncrappy) vocals.

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