While making this album, sometimes a song would take a long time to record, arrange, edit, mix, produce, etc. This happened with the song “Transition”. It was one of the first songs that I recorded and I always found things to change or add in it while I was recording the other songs, Sometimes it’s a bad idea to want to make many arrangements, to be a perfectionist, or to try to include all of the ideas that you have when you think that they all can go well in the same song. In the end, you have to decide how to arrange all of the good ideas that you have and how to put them in the exact and precise places, without cramming all of the sounds together so that they don’t lose their essence. Continue reading

Some info about my latest work….working in my bedroom studio, recording the new album. It’s a small place but it gives me a lot of freedom. I’ve been doing the album all by myself except for a few vocal additions by Jimy and Missy. The mixing and mastering process is what is the hardest and most tedious. Your ears need to be well-rested before you start so that you can tell the difference between all the little sounds and not hear everything the same. Continue reading

From the album Deja Que Se Vayan