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A week off at home! Lazing about with 3 cats and a dog (thats not a band )
19 June 2010
Just about. Berlin is offering such beautiful weather this week, not too hot!... sunny, like a dream. I really appreciate it after that brutal-icka winter we had this year. Its June 19th, and I'm having my first week off this year! Started in Cape Town, South Africa recording The Plastics excellent first album "Shark", then hit London to work with Modernless, Then home to Berlin werking with Daviddson, The Gulden Rule (Sarah Maguire's new band) Lillienthal, Sparrow (from Stockholm) and mixes for The Tellers, Alin Coen and London's The Dash. Over to Seattle to see my folks, family and friends-- was s'posed to be a break but then I found Stormy and her spoken word project Girl, and a new artist named Audrey Bochsler::: and spent a great day at Bear Creek Studios recording them both. Still my top favorite place to make music! Everything is absolutely gorgeous there.
From there I went to Hollywood and produced Love Darling- 6 songs, which was really fun and I have never worked as a producer before in California, so that was very cool. Next up was Calendar in Buenos Aires, Argentina where we co-created a really groundbreaking record that was full of suprises and ultra-energy. We made songs with 30 tracks of vocals and 60 tracks of music , but in a GOOD way! and mixed that thing all in 7 days... probably a world record for making such an elaborate production in short time... the gods were definitely with us! (and the US Embassy and the press too!!) Got delayed in paradise by the Icelandic volcano clouds and had time for shopping. eating great food, cutting my hair off and turning it orange and black... fun!!
I just returned from Brussels where I had the pleasure to work with The Tellers on their album. No, I did not enjoy that city (except for the Hieronymous Bosch painting The Temptation of St. Anthony and the Pieter Brueghel The Elder's "The Fall Of Icarus", and Jean Delville's "Les Tresors des Satan" which they had in one museum there) The Tellers truly rocked tho, and we made a fabulous record.
SO 99 songs that i worked on so far this year-- and more to come in Oslo (Pirate Love) Leipzig (Safi), London (Pull In Emergency record release party, I'm Dj'ing!) Antwerp with A Brand, and then..... Pluto to get a new Germanium Fuzz Pedal.
Incidentally, I just got 2 of my own albums back from Sterling Sound Mastering, and I want to release them this year.. Space Rocker, and Dangling Between the Essentials and The Decorations. Watch out for that ok?? x Gordon (PS soon to come : Gordotronic.com) as I promised 6 years ago!!! better late than "bad sounding!!" x
19 February 2010
with Johnny Love. looking at paintings by Ksenia Hovden. I watched Pull In Emergency last night, on Faith's birthday, and even escorted (chaperoned?) 5 young people into the club-- as it was an "all ages event". Now things are looking rose and light purple.. thats for sure. with sparks of glitter and whole-foods as well. Big Up to The Plastics in South Africa for showing me some great music and a fabulous time last month (and getting me outta the Berlin Ice Freeze Age. PS My band Analog Poodle is playing March 5th in Berlin at an abandoned old German swimming-hall.! killer diller.....
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