Blog 5:
Hi Guys! I have been in awe of this 'second wave' of "BeatlesMania" that has come over the UK in the last month: Beatles TV shows airing for a whole week on BBC4...whole days on BBC Radio 2 dedicated to playing Beatles songs...people speaking about The Beatles everywhere it seems! Well I agree: even though there are and have been other GREAT bands, The Beatles were THE band. Their songwriting and arrangements are, to date, the most creative I have ever heard especially if you put them into the context of when they lived. All Hail!
Recording ' Just Me' Album, part 5: Guitars, and Strings
There are loads of guitars on my album (I luuuuv guitars!) to the point that we were jokingly thinking of calling my band "Odette and the 10 Guitarists" (who knows maybe I will! :-)). Anyway, during the first part of August Marco and I shipped ourselves off to Wandsworth where we recorded acoustic guitars at Vinilyzor, a music studio of a friend (Jay Glover). After that we "re-ampd" the electric guitars at Britannia Row (for those of you that are as clueless as I was when all this process started this means taking the guitar 'feed' that is pre-recorded and putting it through a really cool amplifier to make it sound more powerful and 'rockier'). This was pretty straightforward work as it was just Marco and myself and he knew what he was doing as he was also the producer!
We then had a great string quartet come in to do their magic on 5 of the songs of the album: My Friend, We Will Find a Way, Do da Dee Da, Break Your Heart and I Needed You. This was for me an amazing experience as I realised how powerful strings can be on a rock song! Mixed with the guitar sounds it was just paradise! I, of course, now wished we had written absurd string parts for the whole album! I think you will hear a lot of these in my next album (the gods willing!). We spent a day with the quartet and I realised how what they (more classically trained and used to working in larger orchestras) do is so different to what pop/rock musicians do. At one point we had given them the wrong part by mistake and they just kept playing it, perfectly and completely in time, but to a base track that had nothing to do with the part they were playing! Quite extraordinary! I thought they were doing a super job most of the time but Marco kept on telling them: "it's ok, but not great". He was really tough with them but it really paid off as we got an amazing result (they on the other hand probably whave been put off working for an Italian producer again!) :-))
All instruments recorded, vocals next! That will be in part 6.
Love, Love, Love...
Odette
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