I wanted to waste no time in getting back to work, I have a lot of projects that I am eager to start on. I had this idea that night I got to Paris I would start recording and mixing. Ha f***ing ha. I had been gone for a month! Just unpacking and putting things away and gong thru my mail took 2 hours...plus all the other organizational things. Once I resigned myself to that (plus a an hour long trip across Paris to pick up a hard drive, long story; a trip to the bank, the post, all the little tasks left undone since July) and got to work it went pretty much like it always does. So, on the first full day back in action, I played and sang on three excellent songs for the Seattle band
Explone--who are related by marriage to Red Jacket Mine, whose upcoming album I produced and mixed (and played on). One of the songs, "I Can't Wait" is a serious gem. Don't know when they'll get this out, but I am glad to be a part of it.
Two other days I spent mixing and adding some extra bits to the
Oh, Libia! album I produced in Spain this summer. Recorded 12 songs in 5 days on 8 track analog in a tiny tiny studio. They transferred the tracks to digital this summer and sent the results on a Flash drive. I loaded up the tracks, spent half the first day organizing all the songs into their sessoins and what not, and then started to get into it, and it's....beautiful! You're gonna love it.
Friday was a day to other things--get a haircut (I had gone back to brown after swimming and such every day for a month, now I am sleek and black again, and shorter hair too), do interviews, and meet with musicians about upcoming projects. Including a preproduction meeting with Andreas from
Twice; we'll start working on an album next week in fact. Andreas is Danish but has lived most of his life, as far as I know, in France--in Tours, even, which is Dominique's home town. He and Margot are a duo and they are amazing. We share the same management here in France.
I had time for an aperitif at Le Motel with Mattias Corral, a super person, who I met when he took my pictures in Buenos Aires for
Les Inrockuptibles. He used to live in Paris and speaks fantastic, authentically Parisian French. And English. And his native South American Espanyol. He was just back from shooting pics for an NGO in Lebanon who work with Palestinian refugees there. Shoots analog. Awesome.
I did have time to listen to a cool record, handed to me in Uruguay this spring, called Polyester. Ten-minute live slow rock jams, with vocals occasionally. Incredible Sunday morning music. Also, have started to read
Naomi Klein's book Shock Doctrine. The Horror. Please read it.
By working, I chose not to attend the Lou Reed/Laurie Andersen concert at Salle Pleyel. But also it was full moon, and I didn't want to be on the metro on Champs Elysees with all the moon zombies. Hope it was good.
Love
KS
Paris
