Christmas 2010 Recording

Awesome news to share: FT is very close to releasing a new set of songs!

Back during the prolific college years, FT recorded an album every Christmas break and every summer break. The Christmas albums were always an extra challenge because we had such a short time to record. The various ideas that we’d developed over the Fall were worked out and recorded quickly on our workhorse 4-track recorder. When all the recording was done, the album was finished. There was no post-production or mastering work to be done. That made life easy.

Christmas 2010 was similar in some ways: We had limited time together so we had to work quickly and efficiently to get everything done and we had to only record a small set of songs to ensure that we’d get everything done. What’s different is that, with digital technology, there’s now some post-recording work to do.

Well, that basically is good news: we have finished recording and are ready to do post production work now. That’s always a relief; the hard work is over. We had six songs slated to be recorded for a new album. Three of them, we recorded in Chicago in the summer of 2009. We didn’t do much in between the summer of 2009 and Christmas 2010, so we decided there was enough delay and set a goal to finish the remaining six songs over Christmas, the same way we did back during our college years. And, one of them, “A Small Life” was scrapped and re-recorded, with much better results. So, we recorded a total of four songs over four days. But, we’re still going to do a bit of touch ups, post production, and mastering work, so look for the final work to be ready by mid January. Exciting - this is the first album since Relic, released over five years ago!

Precious Time.