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We had a GREAT weekend at Jon Wyman’s studio. In this shot, I was standing in the live room, and took this shot, you can see the back of Jon’s head, and Todd, Alfred, Matthew, and Yo as we listen back to some of the takes. And if you really look, you can see my reflection as I took this picture, right in front of the diffusors on Jon’s back wall.

After a weekend of chill, vibey, and productive work, all the basic tracks (meaning drums and bass) are finished for the new album. They sound great, these are easily the best basic tracks I’ve ever had to work with for Freakwitch. This is due to several factors…. Alfred’s drumming, Jon’s engineering chops, a great kit, a great room…. and most importantly, a well-rehearsed band of skillful people doing their thing…. there were very few edits required, only a handful, which were usually just splicing together different takes. This is refreshing in this age of grid-editing, drumagog, beat detecting, and drum samples; great drum tracks that don’t involve me programming fake drums! What a concept.

Next step…. JWL’s guitars. Stay tuned.

…until we go into the studio with Jon Wyman to record basic tracks for our new album.

Despite the lack of updates here, we’ve been hard at work, writing some new stuff, tweaking some older stuff, prepping a great album for release soon. Having Alfred as a co-creator/co-conspirator has greatly expanded our rhythmic vocabulary. And getting Jon to record us means we won’t have to worry about good-sounding tracks.

Once the basic tracks are in the bag, we want to knock out the rest of the album as soon as we can, and still do justice to the material. We’re talking about gearing up for summer gigs so that you can hear this new incarnation of Freakwitch. It’s exciting!