This blog is starting to make me look bad. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been home in Paris, enjoying my neighborhood, working on my album in my home studio, spending Christmas at my in-laws, spending New Year’s Eve at home with my wife, quiet and mellow. In fact, the view from my window was that the ‘hood, which is rotten with bars and nightclubs, was pretty quiet. When the bars closed around 2, a few people tried to get rowdy, but not with true ardor, just going thru the motions. I saw a woman walking her dog at like 1.45. This is not the vibe of a city getting down. This is not the blog of a dialed-in internationally renowned artist and bon vivant.
What’s worse is, not only is my life substantially less glamrock when I’m at home, but because I enjoy the change of pace so much I am loathe to spend much time blogging about it. I spend enough time on the (selfsame) computer as it is working on my album.
So, for the curious, my quotidian rhythm is more or less: rise when I feel like it, have a coffee with Dom, take a walk, maybe hit the market. Do errands–shopping, banking, etc–then slide into my groovy vintage chair and add tracks to a song of my choice from my album. One song each day, more or less, unless it needs lyrics, in which case that might take a couple of days to do. I’m not adding a lot–almost everything the songs need was done in the sessions leading up to this. Some have finished lead vocal takes that just need to be edited to a master take. Some needed lead vocals, some needed lyrics to written, then sung. I’ve added a few instruments here and there but it’s important not to crowd the tracks. I was even working last nite, New Year’s Eve, on one of the songs. I’ll work on another one tonite.
There’s been plenty of preparation for my upcoming visit to Asia (see the TOUR page) , a lot has come together in the last week.
So, by a week from now, I’ll be posting from exotic locales and have my usual running travelogue going again, never fear. Like you were really afraid, right?
Wishing Everyone a joyous and healthy and bountiful 2012.
Love
KS
Paris