Finally!

After waiting to get internet set up at our house, and subsequent battles with my wireless card, I can upload songs! I have, however rethought this blog. After recording every day for half this month, I've decided you probably don't want to hear everything I've done (trust me, you don't). So I'll only be posting the things I think came out well and we can all avoid a lot of pain. I'll also use this blog to post other odds and ends and never-released recordings from previous projects I've been involved in. That being said, here we go!



Song 3: Breathing in Billows

This is the last song that I recorded on my crummy computer mic before getting a small mixer and better microphone. So you can expect a small increase in quality from here on out (however not huge since I still know next to nothing about recording and mixing). The reason I didn't re-record this on the new equipment is that I improvised the guitar parts between the verses and don't exactly remember what I did.



This was my attempt at writing an epic song with multiple movements a la Joanna Newsom or the Decemberists' "The Tain". However, as a practitioner of the "tiny" genre of music, even my epic song only clocks in at 5:15. But, seeing as I usually only make about the 2 minute mark, breaking 5 is quite a milestone in my opinion.