We are now in the endgame for Hold the Door Open (and for Normal Man, the separate EP I will be releasing just before the album, and which I should probably tell you more about in a future post). My Google Sheet with the task list on it gets a little smaller week by week. I’m tracking significant milestones to keep my spirits up. (I’m shooting for a February release for this, which may or may not happen, but deadlines keep me focused.)
Today’s milestone: Dave Lambert sent me the last bass track I needed. The EP is all modern music, so all four of the tracks need electric bass. “Pack Out Day”, which is also modern in style, needed it as well. All five of those tracks now have nice rumbly bass supporting them. (As one of my Facebook friends observed, this is an important achievement since “bass is the bacon of music”.)
The rest of the tracks for Hidden Gold have the bass supplied by Rich Simons’s cello work, except for Dowland’s “Clear or Cloudy”, which has a recorder consort along with the (hoped for) lute guitar, and “I asked of thee a boon”, which has four part vocal harmony, with bass supplied by Arden of Icomb. Sabine de Kerbriant came up a week ago and recorded the bass recorder for the Dowland, so this milestone has been put to bed.
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