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June 2009 
New Song Available for Download Today!
Posted on Jun 1st, 2009
by 
Sooj
Sooj
Girl with the Lion's Tail awaits you.
Enjoy!
I realize that my bias is severe, but even so, I hope you'll all agree with me: Tony Fabris has done an amazing job, in his capacity as recording engineer, of helping me create and perfect this song as it sounded in my head, mixing each vocal and each instrument to my every specification, in addition to meeting his June 1st deadline for producing the entirety of our friend Brooke Lunderville's album. This will not be the only time we work together in the studio, he and I, I dearly hope.
Betsy Tinney's cello contribution to this piece is, as usual, breathtaking. I don't know what I did before I had cello in my life. So much emotion is contained in those five strings (and that's not a misprint--Raven is a five-string cello, not a standard four-string). What amazed me most about the cello part that Betsy brought to this song is that from time to time, she not only evokes Lucia's emotions, but those of Lucia's husband Ludovico as well. The scene in Palimpsest which inspired this piece involves Lucia cutting her ties with her husband, and his not wanting to let her go. Particularly toward the end of the song, Betsy and her cutting, mournful cello work put me in mind of Ludo begging Lucia to come home with him. This is absolute magic, and I never would have expected it. Thank you, Betsy!
Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey played shaker on this track, as I was uncertain of my own ability to lay down a good, strong, steady shaker track myself. It was the least she could do, as she is a consummate musician and vocalist, but this tiny favor from her nevertheless has helped the dream of this song come true, and I love her for it.
Thanks, always, to Cat, for inspiring me so. Our tour ends in a day, but I have yet more songs coming to accompany her delightful and sinful book. Keep checking the album page throughout the summer. I'm hoping to complete at least two more songs as part of the tie-in album. Tomorrow Cat and I perform the Palimpsest Road Show one more time, on the deck of a tall ship in the New York harbor. Location info is on my tour schedule page. I hope you'll join us.
Enjoy!
I realize that my bias is severe, but even so, I hope you'll all agree with me: Tony Fabris has done an amazing job, in his capacity as recording engineer, of helping me create and perfect this song as it sounded in my head, mixing each vocal and each instrument to my every specification, in addition to meeting his June 1st deadline for producing the entirety of our friend Brooke Lunderville's album. This will not be the only time we work together in the studio, he and I, I dearly hope.
Betsy Tinney's cello contribution to this piece is, as usual, breathtaking. I don't know what I did before I had cello in my life. So much emotion is contained in those five strings (and that's not a misprint--Raven is a five-string cello, not a standard four-string). What amazed me most about the cello part that Betsy brought to this song is that from time to time, she not only evokes Lucia's emotions, but those of Lucia's husband Ludovico as well. The scene in Palimpsest which inspired this piece involves Lucia cutting her ties with her husband, and his not wanting to let her go. Particularly toward the end of the song, Betsy and her cutting, mournful cello work put me in mind of Ludo begging Lucia to come home with him. This is absolute magic, and I never would have expected it. Thank you, Betsy!
Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey played shaker on this track, as I was uncertain of my own ability to lay down a good, strong, steady shaker track myself. It was the least she could do, as she is a consummate musician and vocalist, but this tiny favor from her nevertheless has helped the dream of this song come true, and I love her for it.
Thanks, always, to Cat, for inspiring me so. Our tour ends in a day, but I have yet more songs coming to accompany her delightful and sinful book. Keep checking the album page throughout the summer. I'm hoping to complete at least two more songs as part of the tie-in album. Tomorrow Cat and I perform the Palimpsest Road Show one more time, on the deck of a tall ship in the New York harbor. Location info is on my tour schedule page. I hope you'll join us.
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