Madeleine Bloom

Month: February 2008

  • Leap, no leap

    Today has been strictly rehearsing. I thought about bringing full gear to the little gig tomorrow, but decided against it. There’s a piano there and I’ll bring my looper.  Pretty low-key.  All four songs in…

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  • It’s about time

    In the last two days I’ve continued working on ‘Webs’ although it might end up with a different title. I thought I had a refrain already, but it turned out to be much better suited…

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  • Spring is just around a corner

    Took me a while to get going today. I felt like I was coming down with a cold, but no, it’s just my body thinking it’s being attacked by vicious tree pollen. So I’ve been…

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  • Tissues of night

    So I began the new song called ‘Webs’ today. Like a breath of fresh air. Back in the flow of things. No sign of writer’s block. Ha! The lyrics are taken from a short story…

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  • The next chapter

    Yesterday there was no music making at all. This dreaded song was doing my head in so much so that even when I tried my mind just went blank. And just to avoid having to…

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  • Mpf…

    This song is really throwing me for a loop. I can’t figure out the lyrics for the chorus and that’s actually stalling the writing process for the chorus, too. I tend to have the lyrics…

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  • Stormy

    Good day today. Made some headway with the new song. The first two verses are working nicely now, the lyrics for verse number two are done and go well with the vocal melody. I wrote…

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  • Taking a breather

    Good news… I cracked the new song yesterday. I’ve got a bass line for the verse running over a pretty rudimentary drum loop I’ve made. I guess this one calls for some real live drums.…

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  • Show me yours and I’ll show you mine

    Last night a friend of mine came over to play me the last tracks of his now finished album and to listen to my work in progress. He makes sort of latin-style house music and…

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  • What a day

    Today hasn’t been the most successful day. I’ve been trying to figure out how to go about the new song… which so far is still untitled, but that’s gonna change. I figured I might use…

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  • I dream of Music

    I’ve had a dream about ‘Unspoken’ last night where I found the last missing piece and it fit perfectly. So I had to try it and it actually worked. I sometimes have dreams about the…

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  • Words unspoken

    Back in the studio after taking the weekend off. I can’t say that it was all that relaxing, but that’s my own fault… got hammered with my best friend. The more disciplined I am most…

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  • Finally weekend…

    I’ve been pretty busy trying to finish ‘Chaos & Order’. The beats are mixed and automated. The rough mix is done, too. I realised though that I have to rerecord the vocals, don’t really know…

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  • Beats & Brass

    It’s been a very long day yesterday, but a very successful one. In the end I was already kind of getting cross-eyed and it would have taken me twice the amount of time to write…

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  • Stadtbad Neukölln

    Sussing out

    I had some appointments in the morning and early afternoon and managed to go swimming in between in this great public swimming pool that was built in 1914 (Stadtbad Neukölln. Yep, that’s where I live,…

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  • Chaos & Order

    That’s what today has been like and it’s also the song I’ve worked on. I said I would try a kind of R’n’B- or HipHop-style, but I can’t really say that it sounds like that…

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  • A little sneak peek

    So here’s the little mp3 snippet of ‘Unspoken’ I promised to put up. It’s the second half of the third verse, without vocals so far and just roughly mixed. It might change quite a bit…

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  • Numero uno

    Okay then… I guess I’m just gonna pretend I’ve been doing this blogging all along. I will throw in bits of flashback info of what I’ve already recorded and so on when it seems appropriate.…

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