Song by song details

At long last the album is finished. The manufacturer just called telling me the final product is in the mail and I should see my copies anyday.

Instead of going through all the recording details as I have done (repeating myself as I go) I decided that I'd simply post the details of each song and that would cover much the same ground (re-cover in some cases) but also give more information for those who want it. So here goes:





Evil Clocks Part 1

composer: David Campbell (music and words)

Line-up:
David Campbell: guitars, keyboards, vocals
Ange MacIvor: alto sax, vocals
Aaron Clark: drums
Claude Prince: bass
Guy Dagenais: 5 string bass, fretless bass solos




This song title (and in fact the album title) was inspired by a story my then 10 year old son wrote called "Wii are in the time of Evil Clocks". It was about a wii game controller and an evil clock. They battled, the clock was defeated, and for some obscure reason the controller got a job at Wal-Mart where he worked until the end of his days.
We liked the title (and of course made wii a we) and decided to use the evocative qualities of it to write a series of loosely related songs vaguely suggesting some distopian evil future.
This is part 1 of the 2 part song and is mostly in 5/4 with a 4/4 B section and bridges featuring a drum loop originally played by Aaron which we subsequently took, processed heavily and then made a Rex file with Recycle.


Recorded at Fiction Music Productions March 15th 2009. Claude's overdubs at Fiction July 2009.

Gear used:
Drums: Pearl
Kick: AKG D-112
Snare: Shure SM-57
Piccolo snare: SM-57 (x2, top and bottom)
Toms: AKG SE300 /CK93 (x3)
Hi-Hat: AkG SE 300/CK91
Over-Heads: AKGSE300/CK94 (x2)

Electric Guitar: Howard Roberts Fusion into a Mesa-Boogie Maverick into Neumann TLM-103 and a Millennia Media Origin .

Acoustic Guitar: Taylor 314-CE, into a TLM-103 and a Millenia Media HV-3 preamp.

Bass 1: Status Graphite into an Aguilar tube DI.

Bass 2: Music Man Bongo 5 string bass and a Fender Jazz fretless.

Sax: Selmer Mark II alto saxophone into a Neumann TLM-184 and a Millenia Media HV-3.

Keyboards: E-MU Vintage Keys, Dave Smith Evolver, Logic Sculpture, LinPlug Cronox, Sophistry and Albino 3. Solo on Korg MS-20 Legacy Series via M-Audio Axiom 61.

Voice: AKG C-414 into a Millennia Media Origin.

Recorded live off the floor onto 16 channels of ADAT-XT then transferred to Logic 8 for further tracking, production and mixing.