Hello from the studio!
It’s been an exciting month…lots of recording and the album is almost finished! There will be a 3 track “E.P.” release in February, then the full length album in April. Not long now!
The photo above is Stu G from Delirious recording guitars onto my album, over in the U.K. So it’s an album with contributions from across the globe!
Producer Jonny MacIntosh (below) is doing an excellent job here in San Diego. Here he is at the desk where it all happens! We are having a blast in the studio and coming up with really cool creative ideas. Can’t wait for you to hear the strings we’ve had recorded in New York… I was blown away when I heard them! The album has a great mix of huge rockin’ band songs, beautiful strings, and intimate piano moments. I think a great album should feel like a walk through hills and valleys, where you see light and shade, different horizons, and refreshing variety. I believe the album has that, yet all tied together with great cohesiveness. Thanks Jonny for doing such a great job!!!!!!!
We’ve been making a new yellow ‘post-it’ note for everything still left to do, and sticking them around the computer monitor. You can see them in the photo above. So each day we take the yellow ‘post-it’ notes down and cross stuff of our list. We don’t have many post-its left now.. almost there!!!!!!!!!!! Sam Gibson has already mixed three songs (the EP) and starts mixing the whole album between now and the first week of January….exciting 
Here is Tim Devlin recording some bass guitar earlier this week…
Evan Wickham played piano on this incredible $100k Steinway piano! It is THE best recorded piano I’ve ever heard… the overtones and the nuances of it’s sound are amazing.
Mark Suhonen played some drums too this week…here he is (sorry it’s a bad quality photo… I snapped it on my iPhone!)
During the making of this album, these Tootsie Pops have been consumed in large quantities!
But these British sweets are still my favorite… “Percy Pig” candy…made from real fruit juice… Available at a “Marks and Spencers” near you!!
Here’s another poor quality but fun shot I snapped on my iPhone while Jonny and are were working yesterday!
I’ve been drinking LOADS of water, as it always helps me sing at my best and coffee messes up my voice.. so I’ve drunk more water this month than EVER in my life!
Here’s Jonny laying down some great guitars with his Gibson Firebird!
Stay tuned for news on the E.P. release… We are choosing the cover right now, and also planning a whole new website relaunch… so there will be lots of cool stuff happening in early 2010!
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Love,
Vicky