Here’s a really early version of song two from my last record, Claye. Unmixed, unfinished, and rough from the week of November 24, 2013. This song took months to finish.
notes on claye
I’ve been spending some time lately making better backups of my albums (so that when Logic isn’t around in 30 years or less, I’ll still have the tracks), and I found this vocals-only version of Weird.
One year ago.
Once in a Blue Moon, circa May 2013. Originally intended to be an instrumental electronica piece, I ended up writing a vocal part, and this song ended up kicking off the more successful Claye sessions that finally wrapped up in August 2014.
From the recording sessions for Claye. This was before I wrote/recorded any of the words or sax parts. This bounce is from April 27th, 2014.
Here’s the final version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZH7I85WXY
A year ago today, I was trying to rewrite a song called Naomi, which went on to be Weird, a song that wasn’t written until 5 months later.
I record a lot of the process of working on an album. From the CLAYE sessions alone, I have over 3,000 voice memos.
Sometimes I like to sift through them, and tonight I did. I found this one, from May 2013, just around the that time I was starting to be successful with writing the album.
This album made me go crazy, and I’m surprised the effects don’t show as much anymore as they did a year ago. I fucking lost my mind.