This song is one of my favorites from the new album "A Song Across Wires". I wrote this track on acoustic instruments (guitar, a six string fretted cello I had built that's like a bass or baritone equivalent of the viola de gamba, glockenspiel and others). Tydi and I worked together on the track (beats and bass) over email and eventually in person. We had a blast in the studio on this and eventually the culmination of these efforts was sent in a rough state to the country artist Plumb.

She wrote a wonderfully simple and catchy vocal. We worked with this vocal for a while and it became apparent after some time that her management and representatives had a different idea about what this song should be and what it should be for so we began looking for new singers (still bummed about this, Plumb is a great artist).

Enter Tanya Zygar. She is friends with Tydi and we sent her the track and she wrote a beautiful verse melody. I sang a multi-track chorus top line and sent it back to her. We went back and forth with iterations of lyrics and eventually settled on a nautical theme (which I love). Stem the Tide is an expression originally used to mean that a ship was sailing against the tide fast enough to make headway over the ground or to move faster than the tide in the opposite direction. 

I spend about a week after all this doing vocal editing, glitching and comping and eventually laid the vocal into the final mix.

All said and done, this song probably took in work hours the better part of 2 months. I worked on in in Logic 6.43 on a 24bit PT rig (OS9), OS X Logic 7 and 9, Live 8 and 9 and was stem printed from Logic 9. 

My favorite thing about it is the acoustic instruments playing in tandem to the analog synths, plugins and glitch elements. Very proud to share this one with you.

Stem the Tides

Stem The Tides

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Once upon a time, The Bearded Man had an idea. He noticed that although the days were plenty long enough in the summer, they were far too short in the winter. This was way back, thousands of years ago, before people had any concept of the solar system or astronomy. This was when people believed that a variety of gods were responsible for everything. For our hero, getting more sunshine in the winter was as simple as finding the responsible god and just stealing the sunshine from him. Seriously, how hard could that be? He began his quest as we often do, by looking through the phonebook. Sure enough, he found the address of the god responsible for sunshine. He went to the address in the moonlight, picked up a rock, and proceeded to smash a window. Sure enough, sitting out in the open in the living room - not even in a safe mind you - was the sunshine. If you happen to know anything at all about the god who was responsible for sunshine back in those days, you would know that he was a mighty fast runner. Obviously smashing a window set off the alarm in this guy’s house. Our hero looked up and saw the angry god staring back at him. He grabbed the sunshine and ran for his life with the god running right behind him in the moonlight. TBM genuinely believed that he was faster. The trouble was, he soon tripped over a rock and dropped the sunshine, shattering it into a million pieces. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why nowadays there's barely any sunshine in the winter in the Netherlands at all. So much for trying to be a hero.



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