Mastering in the studio right now with Adam Dempsey at Deluxe – sounding sweet!
About to go and see Paul Simon live! This is a life-long dream for me – this guy was one of the first artists I ever listened to, and who inspired so much of my songwriting style.
In a few hours I’ll be listening to him onstage with Sting. That blows my mind.
Also supported by Sarah Blasko – she’s fantastic too!
I’ll be sure to post some photos! Playing at the Coopers Brewery in Adelaide.
Love Simon
Ok so today’s the day, I’m heading back into #TheAviary and I’m going to be joined by the likes of Mark Grunden and Dave Hall, who are playing Brazilian percussion with me on Gone A Long Time. This is going to be a corker!
Also today I’ll be doing lead vocals on Rolling, as well as getting started on all the backing vocals, and sundry other percussion on most tracks.
Wish me luck!
Yours,
Simon
Hi happy campers!
Just thought I’d give you an update on what’s happening with our latest album. We had some very successful days in The Aviary studio laying down the bed tracks. If you’ve never heard of this before, it’s putting down the foundations of the song with drums, bass, keys, guitar and guide vocals. You can then use this to lay down the finishing touches, including the main vocal, backing vocals, other percussion etc etc.
We’ve also being laying down some of these overdubs in The Kitchen, Oscar’s home studio. So far we’ve got all the main vocals done except for one, and we’ve got the congas done on two out of four tracks. Here’s a little snap of percussionist Salvador Persico doing his thing.
Next step is to head back into The Aviary to do the rest of the overdubs. We’ll be doing this on this coming Sunday and Tuesday, and this will hopefully include getting our mate Mark Grunden to help us with the Brazilian percussion, and my partner Anita Quayle on cello and mbira (an African thumb-piano). Also of course our keys player Andrew will be doing BVs along with me.
After that mixing, and we’re going to be getting our recording engineer Tristan Ludowyk to help us out with some of that, as well as our guitarist Oscar.
That’s all for now, stay tuned for more news as it happens!
Cheers,
Simon
Looking forward to laying down some Brazilian grooves with these bad boys next week – phase 3 of album tracking!
The odyssey continues, #salvadorpersico lays down some thundering grooves on New Religion and Shot In The Dark, massive tone!