Blessings, all!
After spending several days and nights down below on my "sacred stage" here at Wolvenwold, with some wonderful visitors, I am happy to announce that at least some real progress has been made toward the recordings that I have been so anxious to create. We are on a roll! Finally!
With my new found friend/engineer/cohort/partner in crime and fellow earth lover and home brewer and gardener, Mister Blane, we have just begun to delve into a world of soundscapes, psychedelia, and nuances that I never dreamed could be created. These last days, we did two, (very different) recordings of Black Goddess, to my surprise and pleasure, under the stars, and at my home, as it should be.
Blane is something of a mad genius. He has the ability to take sounds and shift them, play with them, and make them into something magickal, mystical, and phenomenal. While I am so used to the more "structured" approach to recording, we did a lot of things these past few days that I never thought I'd do before; we detuned our instruments all a half-step lower than usual, did not use any click tracks or metronomes, recorded right outside with the crickets chirping and all (gasp! sigh!) and even added some effects here and there very early on just to see how they sounded. We had so many instruments and gadgets up on that stage, that my head was pleasantly spinning. The photos should be able able to help with the visual of the amazing magick that was happening up there. (Oh, and a few weeks before that, I got to finally play his sitar a while! THAT was incredible.) And really, we only did a few takes of each version of the song.
I think we are on to something here, as well, using the older fashioned forms of recording, as well. I had an entire paragraph describing this in detail for you, but then one wrong stroke of the keyboard, and suddenly somehow it all of the work I just painstakingly wrote for you on the subject vanished on me... (sigh) I guess it was not meant to be this time. I'll rewrite it again for you later to let you know exactly what we are up to with that, but in short, older equipment, better sounds. Neato. To say the least.
Though with my maddening Taurean and steadfast sensibilities and need for feelings of grounded safety, I of course much prefer (and will likely release on the album, ultimately) the "normal" (whatever that means) recording of Black Goddess, the one that is actually in (somewhat) proper timing, the instruments with the vocals and the percussion, with clear and correct vocals, very little added effects and so on, I must admit that I shall never forget listening to the other, more experimental version of the same song. Beneath the black, surreal rolling clouds and full moon sitting in the very fields of Wolvenwold, over a PA that was blasted as loud as could be, in a place that was definitely not a place, and a time that without a doubt, not a time as I have known it, something very unique and special was manifested there.
I hope to be able to share it with you, soon.
Blessings of Love, Light and Darkness,
Yours,
Beltana Spellsinger
