Elephants of Scotland | BRAINS!
Elephants of Scotland return after 8 years!
Read more
Elephants of Scotland
April 26, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Recorded a slap-dash demo of “Tree Fellin’ Gal” for Megan and Ian’s feedback
Elephants of Scotland
- Recorded congas for “Too Many Voices”
April 25, 2023
Neb Crabula
- Gave “All Day All Flavors” a remix (and piano extension) for possible inclusion on something … EoS, perhaps?
Elephants of Scotland
- Finally organized my thoughts and ideas on “Slow Effects” – perfect album closer / bookend of “How To Do Nothing”
April 23, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- Spent a lot of time with the new ebow coming up with ideas for “Vanishing Twin”
- Also tweak the electric piano a bit with a backing synth
- Played the keys and ebow together for really out of this world stuff.
March 25, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- Experimenting with slight variation on the mastering of HTDN.
- Too much bass? Not enough bass?
Hatchford Hotel
- Wrote Act I, Scene 5
- Some lyric changes to “This Is Me Now”
- Slight change in the script form what we had planned brought on a small re-think of Scene 6. We got this.
March 21, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Woke up to receive Greg’s verses for Chester for the opening number.
- I had a pass at them. He had a pass at my pass. All before my second cup of coffee.
- Nailed it.
- I also marked up the story summary and script with an idea to lose a cumbersome plot point.
- We’ll discuss it later.
Elephants of Scotland
- Got Lyle’s backing vocals for “How To Do Nothing” last night
- Sounds awesome
- Did a first mix/master of the song. Holy crap, it’s good.
- Meanwhile, Greg was working on the words for “As Whale Song.”
Hot Neon Magic
- Five-person band practice
March 1, 2023
Hatchford Hotel
- Good long video chat with Greg
- We really nailed down Chester and Fletcher’s characters.
Elephants of Scotland
- Bob came by just to discuss the bass parts for “Tempest of Tarragon”
- It’s a highly detailed song so simple tabs or charts weren’t cutting it.
January 16, 2023
Elephants of Scotland
- Chatting with Greg about spoken word prologue to Tempest of Tarragon.
- Additional pre-mixing
Hatchford Hotel
- Had a long meeting with Ian and Mike about producing HH
- All of us were excited and seem to work well together