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Monday, July 04, 2005

Cat CD Nears the Finish Line

Ah, another raucous recording session. Yesterday, I had a full day free, so my producer, Ari Koinuma, came over and we recorded music for my Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers CD.

Yesterday featured Cedric the Fiddler of the Bedlam Bards and Michelle Hedden. Michelle plays bodhran with my regular band, the Brobdingnagian Bards, whenever we are up in Missouri. She was kind enough to fly down here for the weekend to record on this CD. Course, she was pretty happy to do it since she's a major cat lover too.

We started with Michelle adding rockin' bodhran to "The Mining Ship the Red Dwarf", "I'll Tell My Cat", and "Jasper Tabby Kitty Cat-y".

Then Cedric laid fiddle for "Black Kitty Paw", "The Cat Came Back (Cat's Perspective)", and moving line to "Black Is the Colour (of My Cat's Fur)". Then Cedric added a few background vocals to the first two of those songs. You can always tell someone who performs at Renaissance Festivals, because they always seem to have the most-powerful vocals. And Cedric was no exception. He really boomed it out.

After he was done, I picked up a copy of his CD Take Out the Trash so I could add it to my Renaissance Festival Podcast. Then we recorded Michelle on dombek. She played it on "Black Is the Colour", "Black Kitty Paw", "Harry Potter and the Rising of the Moon" and "The Cat Came Back".

Once all those were done, I suggested some cat sounds for the CD. So Michelle, Kristen Roger, and I huddled around the microphone and goofed around adding various meows to the CD. It was quite humorous being immortalized for better or worse Meowing!

Fantastic day of recording. It was as much fun as the session last week, when Sarah Dinan came in to sing vocals for "Black Is the Colour" and a "Cat Named Rover". She was joined again by Ben Hamby and Blake McCaig.

That means we are almost done. All we have left is two fiddle parts by Chris Buckley, one by Heather Gilmer, and a few flute parts by April Porter. So close! :) posted by Marc Gunn @ 9:55 AM