New project born tonight

Here's a post I wrote on December 2, 2012

A new music project was born tonight. My friend Brian Kogan came over to record some music at my basement studio. Right before he arrived, I recorded 5 drum parts to overdub on once he got there. Before we started the session, we loosened up with some long 40 minute jams on keyboard and drums respectively. Then, we started working on these new tracks I laid down. They were all pretty different and unique. A few of the beats did not change throughout the pieces and others had a few different parts to work out. I did this to try and keep it simple yet interesting. 

Brian was a pro through the whole process and came up with some really interesting keyboard sounds/parts. After a few hours of overdubs, we felt really excited about the prospect of this new music we created. One of the best things about creating music is that you basically take something out of the air and make it into music. This music we recorded tonight did not exist before tonight and that is an exciting way to live. Plus, now we have some actual original material to play right off the bat. We don't have to wade through a bunch of covers to find our sound. We found our sound tonight. It is to be celebrated.

The next step will be to complete these works and make some more magic in the basement. I will be adding bass to some of the tracks. The key will be to lock in with the drums nicely without stepping on the keyboard tracks. I think we will call upon Anthony for some sweet guitar licks on a few tunes. He always seems to come up with just the right part for every song. 

I see this project evolving into some kind of instrumental band. I'd like to involve the typical cast of characters for this kind of thing. 

2013 on the horizon.