AKS vs MBO Recording Session Vol. 4

Thursday night, I made the weekly trek out to West Oakland and recorded some bits for a new song: Anjuna.

This is a different type of song for MBO. They call it a bit CSN. For sure, it's got a smooth and folksy little vibe about it. It even has female background vocals.

Basically, the main progression is C Maj7 - D over an A pedal tone. I played rhythmic wurli throughout and then worked on a rhodes part with glock on top for the bridge, which created a nice moment.
There're no vocals yet, so let's see what turns it takes over the next week.

Before we recorded, they also played me the current state of Aphid, which I totally dig. They added lots of weird sounds over the last week: ebows, treated musical boxes, weird samples. Aphids. Sweet.

After the session, I kept them up late again, dissecting Anjuna and re-dissecting Aphid for the new parts.

Craig also included some extremely cool textures he created with an 8 string bass through heavy pedal action. These textures go into Autopilot as is. They're perfect.

The project raw file directory is growing, and now I get to paint some sound and tweak. It's starting to get interesting.