Hey everybody,
We're one month away from our album release and we're definitely feeling the pressure. The first tracks were recorded well over a year ago and we're now working on recording (and re-recording) the last little bits of the album and plan to start working on the final mixes a week from Friday.
one of Mike's handmade pickguards
The record will consist of twelve songs--six of Carl's and six of Mike's. Some of these songs are older than everything on our EP and a couple of them were just written over the last few months. We're really happy that we've been able to spend so much time working on this project completely on our own in the house where Mike and Carl live and can't wait for you guys to hear our newest material. A number of these songs have been tested out live; "More than Ordinary" is as old as we are and was played at our EP release show along with "Better Days."
Jon's 3-keyboard recording setup--for recording "I Never Hoped" (tentative title) and "Houses not Homes"
Mike's "Hold My Baby," "She's Wanting Me More" and "What I Want" have been played out several times over the last year and a half, and we're excited to finally be able to release these songs. A couple of Carl's songs have actually already been played out back when he and Mike were in "You and Yours" (with members of Macramé Tiger) and have now become Blasé Splee songs.
behind the scenes at our latest photo shoot @ the Maple Art Theatre w/ Joe Gall
We have a few special guest appearances on this album. Dave Jakubowski, who played trombone on our SubSprawl xmas jam added some horns to "When We Kiss" (which is previewable right here on our page) and another song we're currently referring to as "Praise" which we introduced at this year's blowout. (That's Dave playing piano in the McDonald's drive-thru on our myspace page, btw.)
the piano featured on the majority of the songs on "Et Cetera"
We're also very pleased to be currently working with Nicole Varga of Tone & Niche, who is adding viola and violin to "Praise" and also an old song (which dates back to the early 2005 electropop demos that would ultimately become Blasé Splee) called "All of it All."
recording Niche in the empty house next-door to our rehearsal space/studio
Also, WRIF's companion online HD radio station RIFF2 (riff2.com) has chosen us as "band of the month" for the month of May. Go check it out! We'll most likely be scheduling an appearance in the studio and may bring along exclusive tracks and/or perform a song or two live on the air.
Dave recording bass
pink & purple vocal booth built entirely out of "found" materials
And lastly, we neglected to mention our amazing writeup after the Blowout on The Post Rockist (post-rockist.com). Check out Scotter's kind words about us:
Blasé Splee is incredible. The songs are extremely well-crafted and performed, the lyrics are great, the songs are soulfully sung and the harmonies are not just striking to the ears–they’re striking to the body. They played a song last night that started slow and then kicked in with a three-part harmony that threw my body into a shudder. They were one of my favorite Detroit bands before this performance and after their performance last night they’re one of my favorite U.S. bands. After next year, they’ll probably one of my favorite world music bands.
Mike playing Wii fit
See you in a month!
Cheers,
Blasé Splee
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