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They call me the night owl; and for good reason. It's 1:31 am, Friday morning. I've just gotten in from going to a jam to hang with some good friends of mine and got up and sang and played some cool old tunes by Denise LaSalle ["I didn't take your man" which was also recorded by the great Ann Peebles] and a woman named Yvonne Fair [ A song called, "It shoulda been me", very cool, very gospel. And no, it's not the same song Ray Charles did. But Gladys Knight recorded it and her version is very good, what a voice. But Yvonne's Fair's is less slick and I like that, yeah]. The latter I haven't sung for many years but thought of it today and how much fun it would be. And it was....Why is it that I feel so awake right now when I have to be like a normal person and get up at a reasonable hour? I was born at night, some things will never change...

So, tomorrow I'm going to the studio, where mixing is taking place. In fact, tomorrow we will be finished with mixing all 5 songs. I heard a few mixes today that sounded really good, just got to do a little tweaking on one or two of them. And that will be that. Then we shall play them for my publishers.


Wish me luck people, if you're reading this. Send me a comment if you like, let me know what you think, how is your world, what kind of music really inspires you; really makes you think, what makes you feel good, excited, what makes you forget what you wanna forget and remember the times you've treasured? Talk to me!!

Much love;

Marcy xoxox

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My tenth blog about this, well, happy 10th blog anniversary!

This coming week: All overdubs are finished. Two mixes have been done, we will go back and review those. Now this coming week I think the last 3 songs will be mixed and done. There may be a few tweaks here and there, but for the most part, finished.

I'll report on the results in a few days.

Thanks for tuning in.

Peace, love and all that good stuff

Marcy xoxoxo

The Making of 2011 Blog 9

About to start what will most likely be the last week of recording for these 5 songs. I only have a few things left to add, some acoustic guitar on one of the songs and a few backing vocals on some of the others.

Then it's on to mixing. In fact, they will be starting a mix tomorrow, the last of the overdubs, I will add on wednesday. I'm looking forward to hearing what EL does with the mixes, ie, what he leaves out, leaves in, turns up or down.

In the famous words of Arnold Schwarznegger, "I'll be baaaaaaaaack!" in a few days with an update. Feel free to follow me on twitter @marcelladetroit. I've been tweeting from the stuuuudio.

Much love;
Marcy xoxo

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Ah, Saturday, not a second too soon. It was a good day to catch up on the real world. I did have a great week in the studio doing overdubs and look forward to next week when I'll be doing vocals and a few other things. Then it's time to mix these new babies!!

I've been given permission to officially announce the name of my publishers who are funding my recordings. They are called: Music Sales Corporation. As I mentioned before, this is unprecedented for them and they are all very behind this which is great. So far, I mentioned we've done 5 songs. There's been more talk lately of doing another 5 to complete the album. We shall see..But I'm feeling confident about it all. You can find them online at: www.musicsales.com if you want to learn more about them.

Many people have asked if there will be more filming of the whole process. YES!
I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Lots of love;

Marcy xo

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Friday will be here in less than an hour and I'm pretty tired so I'll keep it short and sweet.

It's been a very good week. We've been cruising through all the overdubs and things are really starting to take shape. Did some more percussion today, some backing vocals that I did and tomorrow, the amazing organ stylings of the incredible Larry Goldings. His list of credits is very long and very impressive so feel free to google him and find out.

looks like next week will be about getting my lead vocals down. oh, and there will be more filming!!

thanks for staying tuned. gotta go, my eyes are crossing!

xoxo

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Happy Monday. I hope it's getting off to a good start although it's difficult to be completely cheery due to the tragedy that's going on in Japan right now. I cannot imagine; my heart goes out to all those people.

I got word from EL yesterday that we are beginning the overdub process tomorrow, Tuesday. We'll be in his studio all this week adding my vocals and backing vocals, some of my guitars, other guitars by Dean Parks, keyboards with Patrick Warren, more percussion with Jay Bellerose. And more next week and beyond if necessary till the "painting" is finished :-).

In the next few weeks I will have 5 finished tracks. I'm also working on some more new songs and got a few upcoming surprises or two.

Mediajag created the first clip of my recording experience for this record. Watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxVHQYcO38

Off into my studio now, got a busy day singing and compiling vocal files...

Much love;
Marcy xoxo

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Saturday afternoon in southern California happens to be a lovely spring day. How dare nature serve up such a beautiful concoction here after the devastation a few thousand miles away in Japan. My heart goes out to all those people.

This weekend was meant to be my time off; but if anyone knows me, it's hard to do that. last night I was working in my studio till about 1 am on a few songs of mine that I've been wanting to finish. I am desperate to become a better engineer and am determined to be able to make my demos sound like records. I'm also looking to connect with a good studio partner, someone who can help me with that, perhaps write with me and be at the helm of the technical aspect of gaining good quality sound.


re: my record, it's supposed to all start happening on Monday. According to EL we are going to start overdubbing then and "not stop till it's done"; ok, ok, well maybe we'll take some food, bathroom and sleep breaks, but I don't really know what his work ethic is like at this point, so it's anybody's guess.. We've got keyboard overdubs, percussion stuff and I would imagine some guitars and other goodies, and of course, I will do my vocals and backing vocals.

oh, sorry I never told you this, you can't expect me to give everything away, but here are the names of the musicians that have played on the recent tracks:
dean parks: guitar
patrick warren: keyboards
jay bellerose: drums and percussion
brian mcleod: drums and percussion
larry klein: bass and production

if you google all of the above players you will find a wealth of incredible credits. I am honored to be working with all of them.

Will report more on Monday.

Much love xo