And Then What Happened...

Wow. A lot is going on. A LOT!!!!!!
Okay, I'm heading to Mission this weekend, I'm so excited to be out there for a bit, back in the flow. I'm full into production on the record, it started last week. It is going to be a luxurious process of discovery and I have 2 fantastic cohorts to ride out the journey with. I'm so pleased to announce that I'm working with Roma Baran and Vivian Stoll. Roma is connected to a wonderful Montreal lineage of acoustic music (Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Penny Lang), but she's probably best known for co-producing a grand bunch of records with Laurie Anderson, including Big Science, of that brilliantly emotive vocoder tune, Oh Superman. So Roma's got the acoustic connection, and the crazy artsy experimental thing down as well. And Vivian is totally solid in the studio, and not only that toured as a drummer in ground breaking rock and punk/new wave bands like Isis and Unknown Gender since the late 70's and throughout the 80's, so she has that whole background set up and ready to go. She has also mastered an insane variety of world music, so her ears are tuned to the multiple frequencies. I like that they respond to my creative whims with a terrific amount of energy and knowledge, plus they have barrels of their own great ideas to shoot right back at me, and of course, studio skill galore. And... AND... second day in the studio we recorded with a brilliant surprise guest and I'll tell you later who it is. ROCK my world.