The tracking for my next album, Darkling, got underway this past week with an unexpected session at D. James Goodwin's Isokon Studio in Woodstock, NY. While I had finished the writing and demo-ing of this album back in the winter, I had no immediate plan to start recording and really didn't know when it was to begin. But a fortuitous alignment of available studio time, drummer, and resources meant it was time for me to take the plunge and get this project started. The stars and planets also aligned, literally, to provide us with a brilliant display of meteors from the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked during the same window of time we spent recording.For a couple days, drummer Conor Meehan and I hunkered down in DJG's great
new recording retreat space on Meads Mountain just outside the town of Woodstock. There, Conor set down acoustic drum tracks for eight of the songs that will be featured on this album. This is everything I hoped to get done during this session, so I was really pleased with what we accomplished. I plan to interlace these acoustic drums with electronic beats; some songs, too, will be based entirely on electronic beats.
So, I'm excited to have made progress and to have gotten the ball rolling here. Next, I'll do some editing of these tracks, lay in some loops, and then get to work tracking guitars and bass, all of which I can accomplish at my home studio or on location at the players' home studios.
Onward...
