Posted in Bandisms: Chronicles of an Indie Band, Songwriting on 14 August 2005
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Normally we don’t concoct unusual endings for our songs. But for “Mid-flight”, we did anyway. It’s funny because we never really made a conscious decision to do it. It just came to us when we did our final band rehearsal a day before PNB version 5. This only proves that there’s more to full band jamming than just perfecting a song’s rhythm, feel and over-all delivery. Doing time in the studio also breeds creative spontaneity, which in our case, worked really well in crafting a rather atypical finale for the song.
Posted in Songwriting on 1 August 2005
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Once again, we found ourselves inside the four walls of Handuraw’s jamming studio last Tuesday night as we tried to give the song “Mid-flight” the full band treatment (the first of many jamming sessions—I predict!).
As I’ve said in the previous entry (see below), this song is going to need a lot of work given its […]
Posted in Songwriting on 26 July 2005
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I got mugged the other day.
The jerk took my wallet, my Bic ballpen and my blog entry.
So now I’m writing a new one.
But who am I kidding? Nobody really believes this story (I can just picture YanYan raising an eyebrow, Makoy suppressing his classic “ahhhh t*ya!”, and Tessa emitting a faultlessly delivered, perfectly pitched “aaaaaaahh”). […]
Posted in Songwriting on 20 May 2005
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12 April
It’s Tuesday night and Tessa, Roy, Arceline, Jayson, and Guile are hanging out in the living room of Mark’s and YanYan’s condo, otherwise known as the band headquarters.
Having gone straight to rehearsal after toiling in their day jobs, everyone is feeling giddy and a little weary at the same time.
Guile quietly walks to the […]
Posted in Bandisms: Chronicles of an Indie Band, Songwriting on 27 April 2005
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We finally completed a demo version of “Oblivion”, which we recorded at Zzubu studios earlier this week.
I’ll leave the details to Guile, who (I’m sure) is itching to write a more comprehensive entry.
As Guile would say, “no pressure, no pressure…”
Thanks,
Makoy
Posted in Songwriting on 24 February 2005
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Mark has always wanted to give the song “Plot of My Revenge” a hard rocking treatment but for some time, we haven’t been able to find the perfect mix of chord progressions, guitar riffs and vocal melodies. So one weekend, Mark, Jayson, Tessa and I decided to sit down and get right on it or […]
