Hungry Lucy

Well, despite HL’s efforts to stream the podcast live, we had technical difficulties outside of our own control. Thusly, the podcast will not have a live video stream for this episode. Sorry :/ It’s all Leo Laporte’s fault!

But, the duo still had lots to talk about. Work on the new album is chugging along nicely, finally! With no release date a of yet, CB & W are working away on brand new tunes. One of which, ‘Just Imagine’, was just completed and only needs a good mixing. Who knows how many tracks the new album will have. At this point, it’s best to just keep on doing what they’re doing! OPM’s included for the week were Christa’s pick of Frisbee, thanks to Grant and his Three From Leith podcast, and War-N’s pick was the new album ‘Nine Heavens‘ by Niyaz which is due out next week. All absolutely great stuff!! CB also chatted about the music store located in Louisville, KY called ear-X-tacy. Frisbee sells his cd’s, and vinyl, there directly. If you live near the Louisville area, you should go check it out! Also, you can order from them online here!

Until next time, be nice to others more than you think you should! You don’t always know the other side of things.

Toodloo!

Other fine examples of good “brick-n-mortar” indie record stores are:

• Shake It Records in Cincinnati, OH
• Amoeba Music in San Francisco/Hollywood, CA
• Rasputin Music in multiple locations in the Bay Area, CA

What song should we perform next time?

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Here’s the TWHL theme music, for Jody

Niyaz - “Allahi Allah”

Today (Sunday) was spent working on a new song (called “Just Imagine”) that started life as “Futurist Space Car”. We actually played bit of it on TWHL #102.

I spent today cleaning up the arrangement and we just recorded Christa’s final vocals about 30 minutes ago. The song started life as a little drum loop from Matilda (our affectionately named Alesis Micron) and a somber, yet spacey, synth pad. If memory serves correctly, Christa wrote lyrics on the spot for this one and we recorded scratch vocals right away. The lyrics and whole feel of the song speaks of life(?) after we are all gone for this world. Christa’s melody is really beautiful in contrast to the cold music bed. With this in mind, I decided that Christa’s lone voice should be the only real human element to the song. I added some very mechanically played electric piano… playing only the first and fifth of each chord. I’ve always liked the way fifths leave enough space in a chord progression for the melody to really dictate the tone. Is it major or minor? There is also a certain sterility to this method of harmonizing that lends itself well to this song. For a nice lift (but not too much) on the chorus I added some very stylistic TR-808 and CR-78 cymbals. Nothing screams early electronics like these percussive sounds. There’s a 8 bar break between verse and chorus that needed a little something. So I added a very cold sounding CS-80 synth (well, a virtual version of it). The song ends (quite dramatically I think) with just Christa’s voice and the ambient synth pads, so a nice crescendo is needed to build up to this. The crescendo still needs a bit of work. I’m thinking (and Christa agrees) that some strings might fit the bill here. That will add another human element besides the voice I suppose, but what are rules other than things to break?

Sorry if I’ve been a little too music theory/tech geek in my description here. I just wanted to document what we’ve been up to today… in the only language I know. All-in-all… a good day of creative work. It’s been along time since I’ve had such a productive and rewarding day, musically. So I wanted to share.

In a rather dry-feeling episode, the duo chat briefly about how evil the sun is, how great Sex and the City the movie was and how violent Prince Caspian was! CB wishes Chris & Tina (long time friends from Lexington) a happy birthday today live on the streaming video of the podcast! That’s right. Live streaming Lucy! We hope to do this more, and let you know about it in advance, as soon as we can get the technology working without a hitch. You can watch the video of this week’s podcast at Stickam.com. HL also perform the song “Stay” (from the “Glo” album) at the end of the podcast. Ya gotta love the spontaneity of live performing

OPM this week is from CB. Her pick is a photographer by the name of Joanna Kane. Go check out how she made castings of people’s heads in pre-photography times look like they were real and right in front of you! Some people included were poets, authors and the like.Some were totally unknown. Amazing photographs. If you fancy it, you can also buy her book titled “The Somnambulists“.

Until next time, smell ya later!!

What Hungry Lucy song would you dedicate to a loved one?

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Hello all. We’ve decided to take Tea With Hungry Lucy (our weekly podcast) to a bi-weekly schedule for the Summer. At least until we have something more frequent to share with you that is.

So, stay tuned for the next installment on June 8th. We’ll also be streaming live (audio and video) as we record the podcast at http://www.hungrylucy.com/live.php.