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The Plot Outline (Making the Album)
A girl of 22 wearing platform
boots and a lot of eye makeup plays bass guitar in various bands around her
home town of Toronto Canada. In the meantime she spends very late night/early
mornings writing her own songs, experimenting and playing around with sequencing
and strange sounds and effects, chiming guitars and layers of very soft vocals
so as not to wake sleeping roommates, all blanketed in the gurgling of her
nearby fish tanks. She meets a keyboard player in a band that has come to
town, they get to know each other and each others music and feel compelled
to work together. He lives in England and they record in his studio in countryside
that looks like the patchwork landscape of a fairy tale. It goes well and
she moves to England and the pair continue working together and her first
album is born. The earliest demo of one of the songs does in fact have that
tell tale fish tank gurgling throughout. When she is 26 he is also working
on his own music and she sings on three songs on his album. They travel to
the countryside of Germany to mix his album and the pair meet the producer
who will become a fast friend and who will produce her album. They return
to England to fetch the songs they have put together over the last few years,
write a few more and with all their synths and guitars theremins and accordions
in tow, make the long drive back to the rolling hills of Bavaria to record
her album that eventually acquires the title 'You are Found'.
(though the working title 'Bavarian Rhapsody' was hard to let go of)
They eat many pretzels and hob-nobs together, enjoy the night life of the
local town and make music from the fall through the winter watching the horses
they pass on the way to the studio gradually grow their fuzzy winter coats
in brown black and grey.
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the Final Recording Block Blog Here
Erin Lang
Is the central character, brown hair blue eyes, creative dress sense (it has
at times been suggested that her various colour or pattern combinations look
like she may have dressed in the dark) inspired by love and fantasy, poetry,
fleeting moments, first stars, flocks of migrating birds, outer worldly, paranormal
or everyday things.
The singer and songwriter, plays guitar and bass.
Roger O'Donnell
Writes together with Erin, has a big influence on her musical tastes and has
had a gradual effect on the structure of her song writing. Was a key voice
in convincing her to work more seriously on her own material. Is the musical
director of the album and plays keyboards, piano accordion and wine glass
on the album along with some programming. Has been in many great and influential
bands. Writes his own amazing music that paints intricate and mesmerizing
audio pictures. Roger is nearly unbeatable at the grab-a-toy machine.
Mario Thaler
Producer- A fiery character full of ideas and enthusiasm Mario is passionate
and adventurous in the studio running drums through vocoders guitars through
moogs through vintage space echos and animating the faders on his pride and
joy vintage neve desk. He is patient with those recording and has a great
sense of vision also a flare in kitchen. His specialties are pasta lunches
and apple strudel. Also a contender in the mornings grab-a-toy challenges
and the studio begins to fill up with furry creatures.
(as well as a producer he is the owner of Uphon
Studios in Weilheim Germany where the album was recorded)
Ron
Flieger
Engineer- the calm and collected voice of reason of the group Ron is a singer
and songwriter and multi instrumentalist in his own right and has a strong
sense of the pop song. always has a fresh idea or an in tune guitar to lend
he is a master editor and and a great source of encouragement. He also kindly
saves Erin from her sometimes average guitar playing and plays some wonderful
guitars on the album.
Christoph Brandner
Lends rhythm to the group and regales us with tales of free jazz in the USA
from the 1950s and 60s. (though he is in his 20s and German) He plays interesting
and creative things on the drum kit and he sure can play laid back after some
coaxing. He loves English Tea we all look forward to drum days and the spine
he brings to the songs. He plays drums in other bands Lali Puna, Console and
Mexican Elvis.
Steve Lang
Had a profound effect on Erins childhood love of music and a direct impact
on her career path (being a bass player himself). He taught her at an early
age how to pick out the harmony parts of Beatles or Beach boys songs and encouraged
her to learn trumpet parts or bass lines from classic records. He drove her
to King City to buy her first four-track through and add in the 'Buy and Sell'.
It was Erins great honor to have her Dad come to Germany and play bass on
one of the songs on her album.
Maria
Isabel Arango
Maria is from Colombia and studies at art school in New York City. Erin found
her one day trolling though the internet and felt immediately connected to
her work. The fantasy scenes and subject matter, the sometimes sketchy sometimes
painterly execution. Maria agreed to do the artwork for 'You are Found'.
The songs
There will be 10 songs on the album. They are sometimes electronic with strange
sounds and samples we made ourselves, sometimes acoustic with accordions and
old organs. There are some older tracks you may have heard in other versions,
there are some songs that have never graced the internet or airwaves in any
form. Below is the track listing though not in the running order since that
has still to be decided.
Daisy
Happy to see You
Lightning
Empty (if the first demo of this ever comes out you will hear the fish tanks)
1000 Years old
Now
You're Better Off
You're Coming Home
Until Then
Dragons
'You Are Found' is available in a limited supply at Sounscapes Records and Criminal Records in Toronto.
It has been a musical adventure.
