Two full days of song production work. Lots of vocals created an added for 'How Lonely', and some for 'Written on Rice'. 'How Lonely' has lots of vocal layers in the manner of 'Video Killed the Radio Star'. Certain lines have 3 double layers (all vocals are recorded twice to make a stereo pair) to form chords. This adds up to make a lot of layers and hours of tedious trimming and arranging. There are a few vocode layers too. 'Written on Rice' has a few similar layers for the chorus.
This all adds up to many hours of arranging. I found time to start a new track, though it's a strange atmospheric piece, which features the sound of the planet Saturn, and an arrangement of 8-note choir chords, creating an effect like the somewhat frightening sounds in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I started to watch a film called After Blue last night which was amazingly inventive, and inspiring. It looked crude at times, and reminded my of an early 80s pop video, like the one for 'Forever Autumn' as played on the Kenny Everett show, and 'Ashes to Ashes' (both were probably directly related, as director David Mallet connect all of these).
Easily an hour or two of today was spent singing, my voice better than ever before.
