Here we go....

So today's the day I start my quasi residency over at Sean's house (guitarist and main songwriter for Aetherius). I'm leaving today and won't be back in my apartment until, at the earliest, Saturday evening. The plan? To finally finish the keyboard tracking for this new album. We've been at this for a good while now and missed several of our deadlines. I've been pretty optimistic (cocky) about how fast I can get this done, but sho 'nuff I suck at deadlines. I was actually hoping to get the keyboards done by the end of the summer. Now my deadline is to get it done before 2010, which is creeping up on us like a cat who sees a dangly, jingly thingy.

So I'll get to eat Sean's food and get to spend Thanksgiving with his clan, at least dinner part of it. We'll be working from about noon to the wee hours into the night, which I'm okay with. The reason the recording is taking so long is because we write, then record which has brought about some very interesting keyboard parts.

Bit crusher, Distortion (phase, overdrive, clipping), real time modulation.... this album has become a synth project like none I've ever seen before. I'm doing things that you would probably only hear on an electronica and/or ambient album, but yet it fits so well. I guess you can say the album sort of mixes elements of Frost* and Chimp Spanner. At least for the keyboards anyway. I'll post specs on my favorite patches and transcriptions of my solos when the album is done. Oh Joy!

Well now I have to do a bit of laundry so I won't stink up Sean's house with my foul smelling pants that have a distinct oder in the butt area. Peace.

-Nate