Done! Hard to tell sometimes when you get here, but all of a sudden you’re finished. To do it, I polished and rerecorded some of the guitar riffs, and then totally redid the ending guitar overdub fadeout extravaganza. That final part has four guitars coming in at different times, all panned to different locations, playing [...]

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Two steps forward and one step back for this song, I guess. Listening to the second cut, I realized that I wanted slightly different guitar and bass parts. There’s no way around this kind of thing, and no real way to correct it. You either start over now or have to start over later, so [...]

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The song is coming together more recognizably now. I laid down a vocal line and double-tracked my voice for the harmonies during the chorus. I also added a quiet synth in the background in order to beef up the mix and maintain interest in the middle. I generally like it when a song starts off [...]

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I am officially beginning recording on my new album – a collection of songs old and new, dating from 2000 – 2008. It’s the first time I’m trying anything like this, grouping together all my more traditional folk-pop songs. This song I wrote in December 2004, during a trip in Guatemala and Mexico.
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So my unacceptably long, enforced vacation is finally at an end. We have moved into a new house, I’m 95% done with my new studio, and I’ve finished a stack of new fractal videos that I’m eager to share. Here’s the first, entitled Mandelirium. As always, the real thing in the gigantic planetarium dome is [...]

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