So, can I make an album in a day? Apparently, yes.
A good one? I'll let you be the judge of that, listener.
3 hours of recording, 1 of monitoring, 2 of mastering, aaand that's it. One afternoon of work, while fucking around on tumblr, twitter & facebook. I didn't even think it as a challenge, it just happened. After breakfast, I thought “oh, I should record one track today!” and then I recorded another one. And another one. And... oops, here is an album! Wow.
I'd rather view it as a double-EP, though, rather than a whole album. If that makes sense. Even if it doesn't, actually.
Tracks 1, 2 & 8 are actually really old compositions of mine, I wrote them in 2006. I was a monitor in some school and it was really boring, so I passed some time on the piano in the music room when the kids weren't there. These three tracks come from there.
Tracks 3 & 7 were composed during this month, shortly after the release of Emoji Death Threats and Instagram's Codeine Kingpin, while working on my upcoming (metal) album, Gorilla Warfare.
Track 5 originates from a retro-gaming medley — “Retrollection”, based on Laurent Voulzy's song Rockollection — composed last year, that I'll probably never release.
Track 6 was composed 2 or 3 months ago, when I asked myself “what if I try to play some Meshuggah or Periphery on piano?” (NO I WILL NOT SAY THE D WORD) — it is, in a way, an echo of my song Umeå Dance Party from Cyber Woman With Corn.
Track 4 was composed on the go, today, while I was recording the other tracks. I thought I recorded only 6 songs instead of 7 so I quickly made this one to fill the hole, that actually was nonexistent. TIFU.
Is it heavily inspired by Ryūichi Sakamoto? Yes.
credits
released June 26, 2014
Chad Mojito: piano.
Also composing, recording, mastering.
Album art based on a photoshop by Anonymous, edited by Chad Mojito
AOTY. Beautifully crafted layers of noise, jazz, folk… Feels like breathing into an unknown dusty land with the hot sun on your neck and mirages ahead. Heavily remininscent of Matt Uelmen's work. Chad Mojito
A visceral LP centered on the subject of death; deft layers of instrumentation that blurs the line between organic and electronic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 5, 2018
This remixed reissue of Jessica in The Rainbow’s 2017 album brings out new levels of detail in its tiny, winning bedroom pop songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 23, 2020