The Voice From Above

I returned the next week under the new name "The Voice From Above". I guess all that week Jon had been mixing the song "Peace Not War" really loud in his bedroom upstairs so all of his roomates had to listen to my idiot voice all day. I would apologize, but that house is like a Musical Neverland, man. I am yet to be there without feeling any sort of melody or rhythm in the walls. In one corner of the house, wrapped in a blanket, their roomate Ben wholeheartedly goes to work on composing music for an independent film. In the living room, Chris blares a healthy reminder that The Meters are better than we will ever be. In the basement, Ben and Marson rehearse for their band, This Is Cinema. And of course, placed conveniently in the center of all of this, we have turned Jon's bedroom into a recording studio. Not a likely location to be recording an album, I know, but I have no intention of making these songs sound any bigger than that.

Of all the songs I'm recording for this record, "Soul Shaker" was the one I was most uncertain about. Not with the song itself, but with the direction of where to take it. "Do you think I should keep it how I have it or make it more...like a band?". "I would say more like a band" Chris replied. I knew that was the right answer I was just afraid to take it there. So, I stepped into it like a cold bath and within the hour we were playing what felt like a brand new song. It was much easier for me to move forward with this song than I thought it would be, but that's only because Chris and Jon made it that easy. With a Feist-like groove and a certain pop sense worn handsomely by The Kinks, I'm sure it will rest easy with at least some of you. Did I just review my own music?