Torched Laughter Studio Diary: Day 42

Fuck this night. It’s midnight and I’m not feeling the way I should in order to sing. The voice sounds wrong, the emotional flow is dry. The poor annunciation of consonants make me want to punch my mouth. Everything takes too much effort. I’m psyched out and tired.

I know when it’s time to just call it a day and go to sleep furious. These shit days are as common as hydrogen molecules when it comes to doing vocals. You may see a lot of these type of posts in the coming days. I have not just the 6 songs to sing for `Torched Laughter’ but another 16 songs of the metallic persuasion to do. 22 or so to do this month.

I’m certainly not seeking empathy. No one forced me to do this. But as a goal-obsessed alpha-thing, I get severly bent when things go awry.

I could simply vent and then go back at it, but I won’t.

I learned my lesson with a song called `Sunday Is Falling Apart.’ Which can be listened to and bought at www.cdbaby.com/christophermusic . It’s on `Smoke and Origination.’ For you see, dear reader, I was in this same situation then. Except, I kept going. After 11 hours and 267 takes later, I got enough down that I could splice together a good track. Not a single good track, but many bad tracks with some good spots.

Many months later after the album was done I decided to have a go at that track again: One take. Perfect. 

The song I’m currently working on is called `The Tilted Figure.’ I’ll write more about it tomorrow provided that I sing competently.

~ by ikonowerk on March 5, 2008.