My ending endeavor last year was starting Black Pipe's and Alamat's demo albums. The busy holidays has carried over the work for the albums to this year but we are finally nearing completion. After how many Sundays with Black Pipe in the studio, we've already cut about 12 songs in demo quality, and now the real work begins.
Difficulties...
When Black Pipe initiated acceptance of an old offer to record an album using my facilities and my technical know-how, I was a bit worried knowing that they would be doing this gig without a front man. They've already decided that they would stick it out as a 3-piece band with August Gamo who plays bass slated in doing the vocals. Now that's completely fine if they could pull it off, but my apprehensions remain as of this writing.
Don't get me wrong, August is a gifted singer. However, playing bass and singing isn't exactly an easy task. That's not to mention the amount of effort one has to put in it on live sets. I am also unsure, or to be more precise, apprehensive of the charismatic aura that August will have to develop on and off stage even before we press our first demo cd.
So I suggested last week that the options will have to be thought of, namely; take a step back and concentrate on bass, or drop the bass guitar and front full time. These were options that were discussed but never finalized.
And now comes phase two of the project... The bed tracks are laid out, temporary vocal lines are there for guides, now we have to rethink the value of each of the songs. The fundamentals are not yet that "clean", but the potential (or non potential) is already recognizable. The cleaning process must start and it starts with the vocals. Before that, there should be ample time to debate over the messages and the lines of the songs... the fluidity sort to speak.
And all these we start next weekend.
And I am looking forward to it...
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