Been working on the next fourstones album with the very talented Lisa DeBenedictis. We’re focusing on a remix of her song “Brilliant Day” (stream here).

I’ve done many remixes of this song at this point and I’ve posted one that will not make the album but I still like it a lot. (Yes that’s me plunking away at guitar doing my best John Lennon imitation.)

Sometimes it’s enough to get tracks from singers online but in this case we re-recorded a new vocal performance with my handy-dandy laptop studio and groovy M-Audio OmniStudio USB. This performance was captured just for the new album and I’ll be eternally grateful for Lisa for doing this for me.

On a totally, completely randomly different subject, here are a few things to try to shut off or control when recording with an open mic in your house:

• The fridge.
• A room fan.
• A computer.
• The aquarium.
• The phone’s ringer.
• The answer machine.
• A cranky one year old.
• A (understandably) cranky dad of a cranky one year old.
• The TV.
• The neighbor’s TV.
• The neighbor.
• Leaf blowing gardener.
• The neighbor who shouts over the leaf blowing gardener.

Enjoy the track.