Hello Mother

I actually recorded a song today. I always tell people “Oh, I’m going into the studio to record” or something like that.  I’d be rich if I had a penny for every time I said “I’m going to record”. I’ve had an obsession with recording ever since I started learning about it in the 8th grade.  The more I learn about recording, the more I learn I don’t know.  Maybe I’m more obsessed with the notion of documenting this idea in my head in the perfect way.  That’s why I rarely finish recordings. I’m so set on polishing them.  I get so lost in the process, and I’m so afraid of putting out something that is not perfect.

So today, I scrapped that notion.  I sat down and hammered out a song I’ve written over the past month or two in short spurts.  It’s not perfect, but that’s part of rock n roll. It lends to the organic quality of the song.  Now that I’ve listened to it a billion times, I’m quite happy with it. Besides, I like to think my songs are good enough in and of themselves that the quality of the audio is not so important.  That’s something I’ve always wrestled with.

I even tracked a few rough takes for a new song idea.  I’m curious as to what images this song conjures up in people’s heads.  Music is so image based for me.  I wonder if what image I based this song off of is anything similar to what it puts in others.

If  you’d like, the song is called Hello Mother at myspace.com/thecloudmachinemusic

Or listen here.

Hello Mother

I’ve been restless.  I need to trek and traverse lands I’ve never seen.  That would calm my soul.