Was chatting (electronically) with our good friend Dave, and I thought I'd share some thoughts. Dave ( http://www.fatbwoi.com/ ) is a musician and producer who has very kindly begun to record our album for us, for those who don't know.
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Anyway, I hope to have about 8 to 10 tracks in the "shops" (online) for xmas. Preferably xmas 2010. Dave as Fatbwoi is currently recording about 30 tracks for his own acoustic album. The Fatbwoi 5 have just released their excellent Relentless EP ( http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com/ ). So I'd like to canvass the opinions of loyal readers - both of you!
Personally, I think you should mess about in the studio, not just slavishly record what you've got already. You make the recorded songs the best they can be, the album as a whole the best it can be, and you make the live performances the best they can be. But they don't have to be a faithful recreation of each other. You can add on parts in the studio if it sounds better, that you know won't happen live. Extra instruments or effects maybe. Doesn't matter about not recreating it live, live stuff will have the energy and volume and drama that you can't capture in the studio. Just as the full band and the acoustic versions are two different beasts, so the studio versions (band and acoustic) can add a further two beasts. It becomes an audio zoo, with a wide variety of beasts showing the wonder of "god's" creation. And I'm not comparing myself to god, I'm not saying that I'm god. That's for other people to say. (a Richard Herring gag there - aythankyew)
I'd quite like our album to have odd snippets and comments in between tracks if possible. Some throwaway remarks which made it to tape, or some very brief pieces of music, maybe. Then again, I may need to do a solo album for all the stuff the others reject, as I suspect they would with that idea! Something along the lines of The Who Sell Out or Ogden's Nut Gone Flake? Dark Side of the Moon even? That's the kind of thing I mean between songs, rather than Radiohead's Fitter, Happier (though I really really do like that track a lot) An album is not necessarily just a collection of songs, it can be a thing in itself which needs to be listened to as a whole. IPods and Shuffles, and even before them CD random sort buttons, have changed this. I rarely now listen to a whole album from start to finish - the technology just doesn't encourage you to do that any more.
In short, though, your album is your own album and is made primarily for you not the listener. So I hope we put together what we think is the best album we can, and give no thought at this stage to potential listener expectations.
Confound them!
In both senses of the word
That said, I now contradict myself, as comments are invited
I'm just curious, that's all
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