Friday 20 October 2006

1.30am
Sessions all done, rather satisfying too. We finished with Les Pélerins, arranged for voice, gamba, harmonium, tabla and the strange sound of me and Chris doing low vocal drones. We reluctantly abandoned our original technique of chanting the names of Islay distilleries, brilliant as it was.

harmonium (back view) with optional accessory- is this a comment by someone on my playing?

My favourite moment was our recording of Pigeon on the Gate with DG adding extra beats, and the bassline deliberately out of sync with him for about 8 bars. I laughed myself silly with the sheer stupid joy of it when we heard the playback: I think I said 'my whole life has been leading up to this moment' when we went back for the next take, but it was a joke. Kind of.

Marie took me out for a celebratory curry on St-Denis and then we joined the others for a healthy combination of business and socialising. But  to suggest that HTF have negotiated a six-album deal with ATMA would be overstating the case. Back at the apartments, Chris and I returned briefly to the bottle of Laphroaig before I crawled off to bed, too late...