Over the past 15 years, my closest friends and i have developed a language based on references to other nouns or adjectives. I am dusty, i.e sleepy, crunched, busted, exhausted, tard. The record is going well. I have 3 songs (as of last evening that blended into this morning) to go and R&D is officially in the recorded can. Sequencing and Mastering to follow and then i will breath my sigh of relief in terms of having actually recorded and supervised this opus to reaching the market place. I have a bit of anxiety about it, as would most parents when given the scope of parentage, but I'm confident that i have made something honest, something me. In creating each piece of this record i stayed away from the usual cookie-cutter "this is for the club..." thought process and thought about what i would really like to hear in a mature (do not read as old!!!)record. I try and blaze my own path, stay on my own road/lane and listen to what needs to be said and how. I have moments of humor and being utter facetious in light of certain issue but all in all i say its well balanced. a hand in from Tonedeff and many conversations with Substantial have definitely helped in smoothing the road. Not to many potholes or 11th hour decisions to rid the record of fodder. i'm a minimalist when it comes to music, meaning I'm not recording 50 songs and picking 12 for a record. i specifically set out to record the amount of songs that i think will make a good record. in the end only 1 song bit the bricks, for no better reason than the energy behind it didn't reflect my current state of mind in approach to the subject matter. So it wasn't me anymore and ergo got merked. The whole thing has come together, God y goo, from the underlying theme that ties the concepts together to the overall sound of the instrumentation. We had a beat from a producer that was BANGING!!!!! but fortunately it didn't work out. I think it was fortunate because the vibe of the song would have been a little out of sorts with the entire piece, don't slip though it was banging and the concept of the song was hand in glove with the beat..but alas my friends it shant be, at least not on this snapshot. follow me on twitter @koklarock and @kokayi. bang.
