Back to school

Dette indlæg på dansk

So... Summer has ended, and I am back at my usual game of teaching, and planting the guitar bug in the minds of innocent children. This, of course leaves less time for finishing my recording project. Luckily, recording and editing is done, and I have gotten very close to a sound I like, in the mixing process. This means that the actual publication of my version of the collected solo guitar works of Heitor Villa Lobos has suddenly become a very real thing, and I am honestly tingling with a huge range of emotions.

Doubt: I personally like the choices I made along the way; but will others? (including less than perfectly fretted notes in the final edit, because I liked the drive and/ or feel of a certain take)
Joy: I always dreamed of making a solo guitar album - this is a dream come true!
Cynisism: This is in no way a groundbreaking recording. So many better players have recorded the same repertoire before. This will not sell or stream very much. None of the others (absolutely decent) recordings I appear on have.a
Hope: Somehow, this might open up opportunities, create contacts and make it just a little bit easier for me to book recitals (which I am notoriously bad at - the whole selling oneself-thingy)
Contentment: I actually did this. I envisioned a project, that felt huge, and I followed through. I managed to be the father, husband, teacher and performer I expect myself to be in the process, with very few exceptions, and even though some of those exceptions were directly caused by this project, I am as much human as the next person, so had it not been this, something else would have caused me to slip momentarily from my own standards.
Exitement: I can't wait to share the end-result with the world.

And so on.

I can't wait for you to hear it... I will announce a release date, as soon as I have a realistic timeline!

In the meantime, I have done a little thing, to demonstrate some of my mixing process... I present the mics, as they appear in the mix, how they sound together, and how they benefit from the magic of computers...

Mix-eksempel from Thomas Lyng Poulsen on Vimeo.