Or when ocean waves splash your sun-kissed skin, sailing across the bay in your bikini. Or when you wake up to a snow day, pummeling around till your toes turn numb then retreating inside to hot cocoa warming on the woodstove. Or when apple crisp aromas, made with apples you just picked, come wafting from the oven.
Or, perhaps, when you find yourself on top of a volcano in the guatemalan highlands, watching another volcano erupt below just before sunrise having hiked all night with the full moon.
This is how recording music is for me: total magic.
For someone who always has about twenty projects going at once, and a hundred new ideas in my mind at the same time, there's something very spacious and calming about aligning 11 tracks next to each other in a neat package - a linear, cohesive, structured THING containing tidy tid-bits of creative ponderings and questionings and realizings.
"Laughing and Lamenting" will contain 11 new tracks, stripped down to just a few instruments, celebrating the loss paradox - the humor, the heartbreak, and the growth surrounding loss. i've got march 2010 on my calendar - hope you'll add it to yours cause i'd like to share this with you.
I might even share my pickles. If you're real nice.
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