Saturday, October 18, 2014

clarity (redone original instrumental mix)

i'm going to need to run the final version through some buses and eqs to get it to really come out, but this is a reasonable approximation of how i would have wanted the instrumental mix to sound in early '02.

i've added the two ftaa tracks to the clarity single because they're playing around with a similar guitar riff. it's an idea that got recycled, so there's a thematic unity tying it together. i guess it gives the "single" (it's 62 minutes) a little bit of extra variation and playability, as well.

strung out was done about the same time as i was playing with clarity. it was the initial source of the riff, which i then used in clarity, thinking strung out was just going to sit on my computer. i constructed "through the looking glass" out of files from 00-02 in 04 for the ftaa disc; that is, all the original files existed when clarity was being written, but i didn't actually put the collage from those files together for a few years. tacking it on here is thematic, if slightly anachronistic....

recorded in late 2001 and early 2002. reconstruction date is oct 18, 2014.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/clarity-redone-original-instrumental-mix