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85 (Remastered)

by basement sessions

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don't really know 03:17
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work 03:24
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3.
dropping eggs 03:30
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4.
unfold 02:55
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5.
snow falling windows 02:03
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originally released in 2010.
I feel this is my most accomplished piece of work, ever. It's a quick 5 track (technically) EP. That had sat around, unfinished, for about a year. This album is meant to be listened in headphones, loud.

My production started with recording in a bedroom with my EV mic, a dean markley pickup and recording into cubase. After getting a decent recording, all 5-15 tracks (including all acoustic guitar parts (sometimes doubled with mic recording and pickup), hits, various whistles and chimes; are individually sent out to Audacity for effects processing, mind you Audacity did not have real time effect capabilities and all settings were based upon experience and what I had been crafting beforehand, mainly the album Field. Once the individual tracks had been processed, I would then start meticulously mixing in Cubase. I would then group tracks together to greatly compress the sounds to remove a lot of background noise or reduce the CPU working load. Then I had maybe 5-15 tracks reduced down to 2-4 tracks I would again do a final process through Audacity. The only files that ended up being the final final were the mp3s originally released and which i have remastered here.

if you listen carefully you will hear the noise of the bedroom (footsteps upstairs, people talking, guitar strings echoing, furniture sounds, etc). There were also some grounding issues with my equipment (guitar pick up) in the sound of hums at different frequencies which I've decided to leave in to preserve the authenticity and to reflect the equipment.

The music itself was a nod to having celebrated 25 years on this planet and still trying to figure life out and being adventurous while also reflecting on what I know already. The tempo was set to 85 for all the music. Normally i did not set tempos, I had not been as intentional as I was with this album. I knew it would be short, maybe 7 tracks at the most. And I believe part of the processing and mixing the tracks might have taken away from my ability to focus on other tracks that could have been. The recordings are all very slap dash and rough which reflects my will to just get it down within the time that I had.
Another thought: at this point having spent so much time making the music the way I had been was all very tiring and consuming and tedious. I think I had refined my skill using what I had to the point that I had exhausted it and wanted something else. My next albums which released a year or more later reflect that tiredness and wanting to pair down and use only a cheap sony voice recorder to record live sessions.

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released December 28, 2010

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basement sessions Brooklyn, New York

VA --> NYC

acoustic based music

recording under "basement sessions" since 2004. semi retired since 2014.
working on other music under aerenchyma.

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