TRACK SAMPLES!

Watch and listen, folks, to the preliminary mixes of the final versions of four songs that will be on our EP!

Track Samples from Lori and Andy on Vimeo.

La Batalla de los Bands

THIS JUST IN!

Lori and Andy's 10th Avenue Supergroup will be playing Tufts' Battle of the Bands! The winner plays Spring Fling alongside Drake and OK Go. Not a bad deal.

So here's what we've been up to: recording, mixing, writing parts for backup singers, and writing about all of the above for our Communications/Media Studies project.

Here's what we're doing in the near future: talking about our live show (which includes discussing wardrobe, coordinated backup singer dance moves, and how many mics we can use without causing a university-wide blackout), more recording and mixing, rehearsing with our 9-PERSON BAND, and some promotional stuff (here's a hint: you are being promoted to RIGHT NOW, omg).

Drum Recording

Untitled from Lori and Andy on Vimeo.

First Rehearsal with Band!!

Wow, a REAL band!!! That's Caleb Sweet on the left, Zach Camara on drums, and the guy you can't see because he's not there is Jeremy Strauss, who's doing some synth stuff for us but was not present at that particular rehearsal. We've had four or five rehearsals and officially have all of our songs READY TO GO. Which is a good thing, because we're doing our first batch of recording (bass and drums) Sunday, March 7. Wow.

I'm really, really excited about how everything sounds. Seeing the songs come together with musicians of this caliber has been very cool and very humbling as well. And having everyone's input on song structure, arrangements, and even lyrics has been incredibly productive.

And, added bonus: we're now putting all our videos on Vimeo because the Blogger video thingy sucks with a capital S. So check 'em all out! They look and sound much better.

Rehearsal 4

Rehearsal 4 from Lori and Andy on Vimeo.

Our first rehearsal back from winter break was trés productif, which of course means "very productive" in Chinese. We worked out "Hop On My Train" (see below) and started planning for our next rehearsal--with a REAL BAND! Maybe now we can come up with an official name. Right now, it's still "Lori and Andy Write Some Music Together as a Musical Entity," which is simply too long and doesn't even make for a good acronym.

My goodness, another one?!?

Hop. On. My. Train. from Lori and Andy on Vimeo.

Here it is, Demo #3: "Hop On My Train!" Wrote this song in Spain with Mr. Jacob G. Stern. It's gone through a few iterations since it first sprang out of my head outside of the train station at la Universidad de Autonomá--Andy helped a lot with the structure of the song (my apologies for the mumbled sections, I'm still working the lyrics out).

Incidentally, trains in Spain stay mainly on the plain. No, really, they do.

D-E-M-Ohhhhhh!

Oh my goodness, it's finally here. Demo #2.

http://soundcloud.com/loriandandy/again-and-again

HUGE shout-out to Jon Evans and Nick Matiasz, who helped me record it, and to Scott Schoen on drums. Thanks, guys!