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"That didn't sound good... ...Andy? What was that?"
Deep below the surface at the heart of a concrete maze, recording is underway on the latest Mollys Revenge album. No other location could have been more secure than Fort Gadget Box for the ground-breaking project. The late winter winds whip along the Santa Cruz coast bringing a chill to the outside air, but the amber glow of tube pre-amps keeps me cozy and fingers nimble inside my sound-proofed chamber.
With that last take on the low whistle finished, my work on the album is nearly complete... only one great hurdle remains. All the whistle tacks, bodhran tracks and even singing tracks I have done so far, though dexterous, will seem easy compared to what is to come:
the addition of the Great Highland Bagpipe.....
Whatever the outcome, the world will behold it in due course. A myriad of scales, rolls, and arpeggios, carved from the bow of John Weed, a plethora of hammer-ons, strums, and syncopations chiseled from the pick of Stu Mason, and a vast cornucopia of melodious syllable strains voiced outward by Peter Haworth, the Lancashire Stallion have until now only been witnessed by Andy and Ryan of the studio, but soon the album may well have listeners saying in astonishment "this may be the finest recording of traditional music yet made..... ....by them."
More updates to come...
"I don't know David, let me check on that... Ah ha! The powered water Kettle for Stu's tea must have blown the fuse!"
"Oh...hmm... You pushed save, right?!"
--David
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