Here's how I've been spending my mornings when Mikey and I aren't recording or writing. I've been scoring the whole piece. The first 2 movements are almost complete, save for lyrics and a few percussion parts. The completed piece will take 42 musicians to perform and we won't have a conductor either. The idea is to have 4 - 5 separate click tracks running to each of the sections. Alright, I have to stop talking about this stuff and finish it!
Mikey and I have been at work pretty hard over the past couple of months. We decided to record an old song to be released within the next month or so to keep you at bay while we wrap up the Decameron. Wende finished up with the texts over Thanksgiving break and they are quite great! We are putting them to the music right now and will hopefully be finished with the piece and score by spring. We have also been talking with a local orchestra and are working out the details for the premiere (we'll keep you up to date as we find out more).
The good news is that we'll have a new song up on the bandcamp site very, very soon. The bad news is that...there is no bad news! Things are going great!!!
Enjoy this short, silly, and poor quality video of Mikey recording his guitar part to the new song. We're recording at his house with his pet snake, Snake. We are still recording string parts and an F. horn part but the trumpet & trombone tracks are finished and they sound pretty amazing.
