DAN WALLACE MUSIC » mexican folk music http://www.danwallacemusic.com Official website and blog of composer, songwriter, and guitarist Dan Wallace. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:18:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Next Album(s): Working Hard for the… how does that go? http://www.danwallacemusic.com/the-next-albums-working-hard-for-the-how-does-that-go/ http://www.danwallacemusic.com/the-next-albums-working-hard-for-the-how-does-that-go/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:50:10 +0000 Dan http://www.danwallacemusic.com/blog/?p=79 I wasn’t planning to release an album this year, but a couple of weeks ago I started working on one anyway. I’m approaching it differently this time. Instead of the usual process of spending a year writing and recording songs, I’ll be doing this one in a couple of months. I’m also giving less regard to whether or not it will appeal to anyone other than myself, and paying no attention to continuity of genre or style. Hey, maybe that’ll actually be a selling point. As Bill Cosby once said “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everybody”. I also have some new ideas about engineering and mixing… more on that after it’s released, perhaps.Another thing I’m getting away from is the mostly guitar/bass/drums oriented instrumentation of Reattachment. Last night I was adding some french horns and trombones to a song… so does that make it Chamber Pop? F@%k no. There’s a lot of awesome music that falls under that moniker (or Baroque Pop etc…), but it’s not a sensibility I’m interested in pursuing.

Anywayz, two songs were mixed in the first week, and now I’m working on a song that’ll take a week or two to put together. I’m looking to release before summer. Here are the songs to be included (not in this order):

1. Look at Me
2. Fever (title will probably change because I see there’s a song called this on Neko Case’s new album)
3. Fell (folky electronica shredder remix)
4. Vante Left Them Human (featuring violin)
5. I Want to Be (new parenthetical identifier to come)
6. Spiders in Heaven
7. Snack Time
8. Go Away
9. The Gift
10. Untitled (the lyrics aren’t done yet)

Three of these appeared on previous releases: “Fell” is the live version I do in my solo set plus some violin parts; “Vante Left Them Human” is basically a studio version of the arrangement I did in the live video with Emanuel Ban on violin; “I Want to Be” is a very different, cool arrangement of that song.

Also, “The Gift” once appeared on a Christmas charity compilation. This is a new version. I’ve always wanted to get this song to a wider audience.

After this album, I’m planning to release another one in Jan or Feb 2010. That one will feature songs I wrote back when I was heavily influenced by Brazilian music (especially Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben and Paulinho da Viola, all kinds of Samba forms et al… ); I was also really into Mexican folk, and on the brink of an obsession with Jacques Brel that lasted about a year and half. I might seek to enlist Heitor Garcia to play some percussion on it, if there’s time. Also, I haven’t mentioned that to him yet either, so we’ll see. He was playing drums with me back when I conceived some of these tunes, so it’d be a nice completion to the circle. The poppier stuff (like “Between the Lines”), I hope to get George Lawler on board for again.

After that, I’ll be ready to do something totally new. I have ideas, such as for a musical/opera thingy (that neither of those terms adequately describe), and I have a couple of album concepts. I also have some ideas for live shows, if I can ever get the funding to pull them off.

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