9 am. Woke up in a rainygray copenhagen. Heavy eyelids. Excited about what is going to happen. Don’t really know.
10 am. Arrived at Pinligtavshed. Coffee! Lovely. Aske and I discuss what we should do with the ideas we got yesterday. Aske says: Let’s start all over. I say: OK. But I’m outside my comfortzone here. Aske says: Yeah, I can feel that. Let’s begin with the piano.
10.25. Aske sends me outside so he can concentrate on writing down technical stuff. So here I am. Outside. Smoking. Drinking coffee. Waiting for the magic to happen:
11.00. Aske records the pianopart for So mournful the elegy so comforting the hymn. It is b e a u t i f u l.
12.00 I try to record the guitarpart for So mournful, the one, I couldn’t play yesterday. I did it! Aske had an idea for an improvement, and I did that as well – turns out that they can easily function alongside each other. So now we have two different guitarparts. Hurrah!
12.30 Aske chops up the doublebass so it fits in the new tempo. Still sounds great.
13.00 We search for some good sounds on the JUNO, and Aske makes a loooooooooooooooooong, high pitch tone on the outro-chorus. Sounds like a large swarm of mosquitos inside a cathedral.
13.30 Aske and I simultaniously get the idea, that there should be a pounding bassdrum on the outro chorus. Not too techno, though.
14.00 Caspar stops by and listenes to what we’ve been working on. It is nice to get a fresh pair of ears on something, when you’ve been working with it all day. Fortunately, he likes, what he hears. I think, we’re done on So mournful.. for now.
15.00 I call it a day – it has been a good, but tiring day. Still got heavy eyelids. It might sound as if Aske has been the one who worked the most today, and that is very true – my job today was to think and to approve and to make coffee.
Now I’m off to Aarhus for the weekend – Sunday I will join my sister’s band at their releaseparty for their coming easter-album.
Have a nice weekend.
/Jonas
