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Posts Tagged ‘home studio’

far be it from me to build mountains from molehills, but 2011 is showing potential to be another epic year for jonathan t marlowe & co. consider the evidence… – march: my first album, “humans” is restored and expanded to 29 songs, including 14 bonus tracks of rare, previously unreleased material & new, decade-anniversary mixes. [...]

recording is going well… slow, but well. john shaugnessy and i have been co-authoring lyrics since autumn 2010, and each day we get closer to completion. eventually, i’d like john to visit my home studio to records vocals, but transitioning from the old set-up to the new system has taken a back seat over the past few [...]

to those of you still reading, thank you, and please continue. this may be the closest thing that comes to a “history of yearlongday” type of publication (but we can still dream of something more “printed & bound”). though you won’t be seeing us live, yearlongday is still alive. our last blog explained why the stage [...]

maybe yearlongday isn’t destined for success. five years ago, things were different. songwriting was an outlet for ideas and emotions. i’d never performed in front of an audience. ’yearlongday’ wasn’t even in my vocabulary. today, songwriting is a contest, performance is a measure of talent, and i can’t seem to make ‘yearlongday’ a household word. i’m starting to [...]

is everyone enjoying our new cd? i hope so… it’s our debut cd, and we put a lotta love into it, but i suppose that goes without saying. there is much i can say about best excuses, but one characteristic of this album separates it from our other recordings: leah l’orange. this is her first [...]

how do we do it? well, you’re going to find out.to show you how we do things in our home studio, we selected a song from our back-catalogue called “giving up”. at 4:15pm today, yearlongday uploaded the 1st demo for “giving up”. from there, we will continue to work on the song, uploading our progress, [...]