2+4
Hey!
An old friend of ours visited us yesterday at our studio and he said more or less that we looked like shit (some more than others, someone whose name begins with a X). Thanks, man. We might look older, thinner but at least it means that we’ve been working hard at the TLab.
We’ve just finished a serie of 3 intensive weeks of rehearsing/ arranging new songs.
To be honest, at times it felt weird, as we now have 2 new “official” members in the band (Raphaël & Julien).
—-2+ 4, means that Tahiti 80 is now a six-piece—-
We soon found out (even though we kinda knew it) that touring & performing live is actually very different from working on new material.
Why? Warum? Perche? Mais Pourquoi?
First, it takes a while to get everybody comfortable enough so they can make comments, express opinions etc.
Secondly, we have to learn to speak the same language, being a musician with absolutely no knowledge of music ( eg “Let’s keep that, erm, “theme “going for the first, erm, 2 bars and then when we get to the chorus let’s stay on that note, erm a D#, sorry a Eb, for erm, a while…everybody OK?”), and being musicians who kinda have telepathic powers as we’ve been playing together for ages, it sometimes hard to communicate ideas to others. Still working on it, but it’s going good.
Now, we’ve got a bunch of songs in stock, some are more advanced than others, some were demoed first, alone or collectively, some were created in the live room, so in the end they all sound quite eclectic at the moment, which is very interesting I think.
The first collective effort to be printed on tape is a cover of A.R Kane’s ‘Crack Up’ that we’re recording for an Amnesty International compilation. It’s been fun and I guess it was very wise to start with a song we haven’t written, so we don’t feel too much pressure working on it.
Hope everyone’s well!
More on this later…
Luv
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