Roma and Viv are fiddlin' with their brand new telefunken microphone, we tried out a whole bunch and this is the baby for the job. I'm feeling this lovely sense of well-being lately, life is really most excellent. Got two projects on the go now, my next album which is like this gorgeous big broccoli growing in the ground, and also I'm producing music for a dance by Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action, which is intense and fascinating, getting into the grooves and strange noises and soaring moods...It's a mammoth one this time, 50 minutes, which is the longest score I've ever produced. I'll be working it through the winter, I think the premiere is in March.
But this record unfolding is exciting. The collaborations are evolving, the musicians are emerging, I'm laying down the mood first, vocals and guitars and mandos and stuff. Things happen like, I wanna rock, like a shy kid I think about electric guitars and how i'd like to try them some time, and Roma throws one into my hands and says 'why practice when you can go straight to track?' and there we are, tracking electric guitar. Fu-u-un.