a quick one before a long one... (Patreon)

(patron-only)

hallo my loves

i have an epically long post for you tomorrow (as promised, i’m going to be “thinging” the month and i’m doing a State of All Things post)...but i don’t want this particular moment to get lost...

i’m really, really happy right now. drunk on the finishedness of a spontaneous didn’t-have-to-be.

i’m behind, i haven’t answered any of my email for several days and i’m completely behind and i need to rearrange several messes and haven’t practiced for my northwest tour...something i promised myself i’d do, i even booked three full studio days to ensure i’d practice. but then i met some people. randomly. five days ago.

and i wound up dragging these two people into the studio (procrastination OR GENIUS?? you decide) and spending three full days in the studio with these two people (matt nicholson, an arranger and composer and pianist, and jasmine power, a 24-year old, relatively unknown/emerging songwriter from wales) and in the last three days we’ve done nothing else but spin a magical new song into being. just like that.

i sat in the control room this afternoon and cried listening to the beauty and intensity of what we’d created - all so fast, from thin air. and like that, they were gone. we slaved over this accidental spontaneous thing for three days and jasmine literally kept doing vocals up to the last second they had to drive back to new york tonight.

the song is, as seems to be happening lately, like nothing i’ve ever released.

this is the way of the patreon.

these things have no reason for happening.
no reason for existing.
but we did it.

i cannot wait to share this one with you.

the working title is “Mr Weinstein Will See You Now”.

this is a photo of jasmine today, giving chris, our engineer, notes about her vocal take. he voice is like an ocean of velvet. she crushed it. her lyrical style...so different from mine.

the amount of power and progress in the room was palpable. i’ll post more pictures tomorrow.

this one is special. i don’t always say that, do i?

i love this patreon
and i love you.

good night dear ones

x
afp