“Far” by George Hrab
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I tore myself away from Twitter long enough to put this one together… (tweet, tweet)
My dear friend, George Hrab, called me to book a quick session to record a song called, “Far.” This was an expanded version of a jingle that he had been asked to write for the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. We banged the whole thing out in a few hours and he subsequently made a video of the tune which you can find either on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2HG1PVZok
or on Blip.TV at:
http://blip.tv/file/1768264
Belated special thanks to a few people on the show:
Donna Mugavero of Sheerbrick Studio (a.k.a. Ms. Information) for designing the Sessions With Slau banner and for insisting that the site be neat and clean. You can find her on Twitter at @MsInformation or check out her blog
David Jackson of Cooler Websites for helping me put together the podcast through his Podcast Fast Pass program which allows me to concentrate on just creating the content and slowly get my feet wet with the whole WordPress and RSS universe.
Tony Corso for his voice-over on the podcast intro. We recorded a bunch of stuff so I’m sure you’ll hear more of him in the future.
Audrey Farolino (my lovely wife) for doing the “Sessions With Slau.com” tag at the end. She insisted that I let her do another take but, I swear, her first take was perfect.
Thanks so much for the comments and e-mails. You can always reach me at:
slau { at } sessionswithslau { dot } com
and you can often find me tweeting by following
@slaubesharp
http://www.sessionswithslau.com
Watch the George Hrab Video “Far”
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March 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I have listened to “Far” and watched the video many times, so it was really interesting hearing it all broken down into its components. Thanks for putting that up.
March 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Thanks, David. It’s always a complete blast to work with George. I knew a bunch of folks in the innertubes, especially fans of the Geologic Podcast would enjoy the microscopic view of the session. Cheers!
March 13th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Very nice! I love hearing a skilled craftsman talk about his work.
And you and Geo are both so engaging, it seems to me you ought to do something like a DVD commentary track or a “making of” documentary for his next album. It would be instructive for learning musicians and drooling fanboys alike.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I am a fan of Geo’s so I thought I would listen to your pod cast because he recommended it and he is your friend. I didn’t know what to expect, I thought it might be worth a listen to hear George’s interview. It was so much more! I really liked how your broke down the recording of the song “Far” into each instrument and how you put it all together. To hear the behind the scenes techniques and goings on of producing a song was very cool. Good Job!
March 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Hey Guys, thanks for the comments. Yeah, we’ve kicked around the idea of somehow capturing the sessions on video. Naturally, I’ll capture the “making of” in some type of format for the podcast. We’re beginning the new album sessions next week so I’m sure we’ll have to figure it all out pretty soon. I don’t know what the plan will be exactly but, whatever is decided, I’m looking forward to the recording itself, of course. It’s always a complete blast working with Geo. Contrary to the seemingly tame and understated manner presented in the previous episode, we can get pretty silly during the session and, well, I try to keep the podcast as clean as I can without having to bleep stuff too much. (smile) Thanks for listening!
March 17th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Very fun episode. Really, really hoping that we get some kind of video chronicling of the making of the album, but i will be over the moon with more stuff like this if it’s what I have to ’settle’ for.
March 17th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Yeah, even if I just have to set up my Flip video camera, we’re gonna do something, anything, but it’ll happen, for sure. Hey, maybe we should auction off a skype conference call to sit in live during the making of the album. Hmm… there’s an idea…
March 19th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Sweet.
So…17 tracks.
Is that, like, a lot?
March 19th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Well, 17 tracks is certainly more than usual for Geo but, whatever it ends up being, it’ll be nothing but a pleasure to record. This time around, it turns out, I’m going to set him up to do a bunch of stuff at his home. We’ll definitely track the drums here at BeSharp and he’ll do some bass and vocals at home and we’ll schedule some time to do whatever he can’t do in Bethlehem. I have to say, it’ll definitely be “far” less fun to just work on most of the recording as opposed to all of it. It’s always such a blast to have him in the studio all day.
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.