Darrens Message

August 15 2005

In L.A.
I forget how you can smell the ocean from the airport. On a good day that is. Oh California.. It's so vast and clean. When I've been away for a while it's always what hits me first when I return. That, and jet lag.

Well, I've recorded so many songs in demo form this year and finally I'm about to sit down in a studio with a producer and try to capture some magic and make it something permanent. Demo's are great because they're so instant. You either have a good song or you don't. No one ever talks about what happens to the bad songs. Usually they end up erased or gathering dust somewhere. But ones with potential face a secondary judgement. They are either deemed perfect just as they are or they require developing. But taking a song out of a safe atmosphere of a writer's demo and taking it somewhere else is always precarious because some don't survive re-entry. But sometimes they return re-born. That's the risk. And the reward. And that is the process of making a record.

I decided to write these new songs with the intention of later taking them to a producer who did not write with me. This is something I have not done since Affirmation. When the person producing has had a hand in the song writing,
the production sort of happens as you write. And it's totally subjective. But taking the song away from the creators and taking it to a third party (like I'm doing this week) is an entirely different process. More than anything, you get objectivity.You get to work with someone who is hearing your song with fresh ears and their only goal is to make it the best it can possibly be. If your fragile ego can survive constructive criticism it can make for incredible music.

So that's what I'm here trying to do.

Gotta say I'm enjoying it so much. I don't know whether it's that I'm more chilled out.. or I'm happier.. Or that I've just worked out what I'm good at..But this new music just feels pretty natural to me.

I'm off to find a meal.
And then a bed.
My love to you.
Thanks for being so beautiful to me and my music.

xD

^^^ so looks like things are happening. Cant wait to hear what the new music is like. Who the producer is and all that.

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ August 15, 2005 06:01 AM: Message edited by: Kattitude ]</font>