its been quiet around here for a few days but we’re about to kick things into gear with the third song, Fire and Ice.

as I mentioned in the previous post, I had the idea for the chorus/hook  a little over a week ago and as I was recording the demo that appears below the rest of the song kind of fell into place. this is actually the opposite of how I usually work – usually I get an idea, jot it down quickly on paper or on tape, then come back to it weeks, months or even years later.  it’s been a challenge to force myself to focus on one thing at a time but so far it seems to be making the songs stronger – and it’s quite a buzz to write a song, record it, mix it and have people hearing it all within a few days.

anyway, as it happened we ended up keeping a lot of what was in the original demo – what was supposed to be a rough vocal take has ended up in the final mix and we just built some guitar, bass and mellotron overdubs on top of it.  I have some video footage to upload later today and then I’ll post the final mix of Fire & Ice tonight – hope you enjoy it!