Recording Dogma

As a reaction to the slow moving music industry, I had an idea.

“Why not record an album, do a photo session for promo-pictures, and shoot a music video and some promotional pictures – all in one day?”

Recording an album in a real studio is great. I love to be able to spend hours and hours on vocals, arrangements and so on – but sometimes you just need to get a move on. Sometimes you can’t recreate that magical first-take – or the way you played a song, when everybody was just sensing what to play, instead of reading carefully written sheet music. Sometimes it can be extremely liberating to just press record – play a song – press stop – and then move on. That way the song gets it’s own life – that way you can listen to it the next day or a year later, and still hear new things that you didn’t know were on there.

I’m not trying to compare the two – they are two different things. And I’m not saying I prefer one over the other – but that being said – I see no reason why the two can’t co-exist.

So – I’m going to try this.

I have a bunch of fantastic friends – and I have shanghaied a few of them to help me. This tuesday we’re going to attempt to record a small album – I’m thinking 6-7 songs – do a photo shoot – shoot a video for a song or two – and do some additional footage. While we do this, I’m going to videoblog – as I usually do – to document what we are doing.

When we’re done, I’m going to release the album for sale online, with little or no post-production, meaning no fiddling around on the computer, pressing numerous buttons etc. – I’m gonna put it straight out there. The video will be edited together quickly – or should I say “by intuition” rather. Same goes for the pictures.

With a lot of luck, some skill and pots and pots of coffee – we’ll get there.

D.