A Quick One...

Well, things have been crazy here at the Gaito Camp. Trying to wrap my head around some stuff, catch up on things fallen behind, create some new experiences for myself, all while finishing the recording of Beard of Bees. It is going really well and I am really happy with it. AND, I now have a deadline for home recording to be complete! August 21st, 2006 at 11 AM I am to convene with Andre Maquera at West Street Digital to begin data transfer, mixing and mastering.

So know I have a deadline - very good - terrifying - but very good :-)!

So there's the update more and more detail soon.

Hope you're all well!

Mike

Asparagus and Glass and the Bruddas Gaddos

I finished recording Asparagus and Glass this week and I can't tell you how happy I am with how it came out. The track is made even stronger due to the fact that the
"Bruddas Gaddos" were able to make a guest appearance on the instrumental mid-section.

To elaborate: the Bruddas Gaddos are 4 Italian Brothers who are busking through the US. I met them in downtown Huntington, VT performing somewhat avant-garde acoustic pieces. Now you must understand busking in downtown Huntington (a town of just over 1000 residents and no true centralized downtown) is about as financially rewarding as biting your nails. They were hungry, friendly and great. I invited them to my home and we were able to hang out for a bit. As we chatted over fresh-baked french bread, VT Cheddar Cheese and local veggies dipped in EV Olive Oil we realized that we were actually related! Distant cousins as a matter of fact.

So, to make a long story short, the Bruddas Gaddos (Marco, Icabod, Kelvin and Efram) wanted to pay me and Tracy back for our hospitality. I taught them Asparagus and Glass and they created a wonderful mid-section for the tune! I'll expand more in future blogs and in the liner notes of my new CD (Beard of Bees), but I love these guys (if you ever see them busking about in your town ask them to join you for some wine and bread and ask Efram to do his Benito Mussolini imitation - it's HYSTERICAL!). I hope someday I'll be able to produce a whole album of their music!

Anyway, that's where I am at right now. Don't forget to preorder my CD (check out my banner below!)

Hope you're well!
Mike

Finger Tale Poem and other diversions

Finger Tale Poem
With the finger things have slowed yet the mind it wanders well
Clarity from patient healing ensures pleasantly explosive ends
And with the time a smile grows as calm prevails above the storm
Containing it but brewing unimpeded and focused all the more



CD is going great, if slow and preorders are making me smile and adding huge bricks to my confidence wall everyday…and the creator of this beast, his muse is calling clearer than ever before and for once he’s in a position to truly and boldly answer.

Exciting times…tinged with sadness yes…but very exciting.

More soon…

Beard of Bees Update - Making Progress

The good news: The recording is going pretty well. I have 5 songs almost completely finished. These include Ullow Kahng, Beard of Bees, Art Bunny, Hobart the Emu and the tentatively titled "Intermezzo". I have made some headway on Asparagus and Glass and other bits and pieces are slowly finding there way to completion. I am very happy with it so far and I think the range for a target release date of "between September 1 and November 1, 2006" is still very reasonable - sweet!

The bad news: A nasty little cut on the tip of my index finger (damn my home improvement/weekend warrior tendencies) might slow down everything other than vocal tracking for a little bit - luckliy I have recorded guide tracks for a bunch of stuff so I can indulge myself with doing tons of vocals! And it is healing well and as long as I don't accidently try to type with it (which I have done twice so far in this blog) it doesn't hurt too much.

So, it is less bad news and more inconvinient news.

So I'll keep this short as it is almost time to isolate myself in my makeshift vocal booth for the weekend.

More soon, Gaito