Jaron's Journal
| July 18, 2012, 9:01 AM Recording The Song "Animals" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alright ladies and gents, Now that we've thoroughly covered what it took to record the "Dark Forest" song from the "Dark Forest" album, I shall continue to give you way too many details about how I recorded the song "Animals." Listen to the finished "Animals" song
This song began as a simple idea that occured to me on 12/20/2007. I wanted to build a song on a fugue. More specifically, I wanted to take three distinct melodies with exact timing and layer them a few beats apart such that they created somewhat of an incidental chord progression as they went. This was nothing more than an idea I codenamed "Fugue" until 9/14/2010, well beyond the "Lost Year" of 2009. In a fit of inspiration, I wrote a paranoid, allegorical song about a broken relationship with a set of friends called "Animals." I went into the studio for the rest of September 2010 and tried my best to make and combine melodies that worked with the lyrics and produced this demo. Over time, a few things clicked into place. During the aforementioned session, I made a drum piece played predominantly on the toms. In 2011 I thought of a chromatic violin piece and recorded spring peepers at a pond. The peepers were intended to be used for any one of my songs, but eventually I used them for this song. I also tweaked some of the lyrics, per advice from a friend, Jake Russell. Finally in January 2012, recording began in earnest on the final product and wrapped up in late May, 2012. I created vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, bass, violin and piano pieces and layed them down with a little help from my friends. I added a second pounding drum track at the advice of Jake. It didn't sound as jungle-ish as I'd initially anticipated, but it worked beautifully nonetheless and got the paranoia across effectively. So all in all, this was a pretty straightforward track to create, but it is one of my favorites because it really sets a mood and hits me close to home lyrically. The full recording schedule of this song is found below. The next post (hopefully next week) will be about "Dreaming Of Her," so stay tuned Russ and Chad (and anyone else interested)! Once again I'll end with a "missing link" demo, cut in April, 2012.
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