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Degrees of happiness
The album 'Degrees of happiness' began as a one off, once only recording session, allowing me to exorcise a few song ghosts, and Phil to test out his new digital recording gear. At the end of the session I was happy just to be going home with a demo I could listen to on my stereo, as opposed to having the songs on permanent repeat inside my head, but Phil had other ideas, asking me if I might like to return and add a few overdubs or backing vocals. I jumped at the chance and what followed was a years worth of Wednesday nights, hundreds of overdubs, thousands of backing vocals, and a 'patience of a saint' award for Phil.
The end result was 10 songs we were really excited about, and thought were worth mixing to as high a standard as possible. For this we enlisted the help of Jeff Ward at Random Productions who kept a watchful 'ear' on proceedings to make sure we didn't screw up sonically at the final hurdle. We took the title from what became the last song on the Album, 'Careful what U wish 4'. It just felt like a positive thing to do - to measure mood on a scale of happiness rather than sadness - a glass, after all, should always be at least half full!
The whole process, from first chord to mastering has really just been one huge experiment, which is why I'm looking forward to starting all over again, only this time with eyes wide open, and hopefully, a few more of you along for the ride..........
Eskimo
