Future Islands Wrap-Up

We finished up tracking and most of the editing for Future Islands late last night. We recorded nine songs total:

Beach Foam
Escape Artist
Flicker and Flutter
Heart Grows Old
Little Dreamer
Nu Autobahn
Old Friend
Seize a Shark
Wave Like Home

There is still some editing to do, and a lot of mixing. Some of this material is going on a 12" 45-rpm split with Tron Valdez, who I'm recording in Raleigh, NC next week. I might upload another song or two after they're finished. I wonder which ones...

Today I start working with Lonnie Walker, also from Greenville, NC. We're working in the same space as Future Islands, so I don't have to move my stuff, which is good. Also, it's a really cool room. Really lonng with a wood floor. It's also right in the center of town. There's a good view of all the drunk people who stumble out of the bars at 2am (it's a college town that doesn't really stop during the summer!)

The instrumentation for Lonnie Walker is two guitars, bass, keys, drums, and vocals. The lead singer and primary song writer is Brian Corum, who sent me demos for two songs, "Back Home Inside with You" and "Suspicious Compound". I guess he'll be getting here around three or four, and we'll get started. Until then, I'm just puttering.

One of the things I'm doing now is mixing Du Yun's piece titled "Obliteration", wich we recorded in early June. Maybe I'll put it up. Maybe I'll wait until we're done revising it. Yeah!