Thousand Thousand

Little sweetheart, as I continue work on the live OF LOVE AND LOSS, writing and recording the short guitar pieces that I call “incidentals” - that both link the existing songs from the album in transition and underscore the spoken word narration I’ve written - I’ve just composed something rather new. I have a new guitar pedal - a loop station - and it’s pretty neat. I remember that you just gotten one yourself our last Christmas together and were looking forward to trying it out. I was going to help you. You wanted to use yours specifically for vocals, layering harmonies, singing with yourself, and I thought that a great idea. Mine is more of a guitar based one, but I am certain we can figure out how to use it with a mic, too. I think it takes the kind of mic you use with a harmonica. And there’s also a USB port, so I can pre-load vocal loops - of your isolated vocal tracks, for instance - and play them back. That’d be neat, right, little sweetheart?! I'm just starting to use the guitar one and that’s what I wanted to tell you about. I started out making two different guitar loops. One layers both a guitar chord with tremolo under a clean arpeggio and the other is a big power chord leading into feedback. They’re based on coming out of the song “No Answer”, so the next thing I did recording-wise was to fly in your isolated vocals from the end of the song - both the parts where you laugh at the end, the spoken/softly sung beginning when you’re getting ready for your entrance and a little snippet of you singing the descant. Those are on tracks 3, 4 and 5. Then I added me way off mic saying the first words of the Choral Text Passage - “I have a thousand things to say…” and a second close up on the mic whispering the same thing. I put an ambient vocal effect on that so it’s low and sort of pans between speakers on tracks 6 and 7. All together it’s a kind of soundscape. It’s really neat. I think you’ll like it. I call it “Thousand Thousand Summer”. It's a whole new idea about composing, using these loops. I bet the next album is going to have a lot of them. And I love working with your voice, It makes me feel so close to you. And I know you are. Closer than I can imagine. Thank you, my angel. I love you with all of heart and soul forever and ever.