Intraphase's coming concept EP

Hey Record Time friends,

We, Intraphase, are gearing up to record another album. It's always exciting getting the caught up in a creative moment. It's even better when you get to hear the playback of that first rough mix. Surely, this will be no different!

We got involved through a friend of it's creator, Kris Eckman. (Looking forward to hearing your stuff Kris.) But the timing couldn't of been more prefect. I (Mike Godlove) had been working with our drummer and long time friend Eric Cripe on a story for a concept album. We were just figuring out some of the details and now here we are. Want to give a thanks to Dan for hosting this event!

Our story is about an orphan boy who has just been accepted into the not-so-warm arms of new foster parents. He had a sordid past and as the album progress we find out some of the details of this past.

As a band we explore many different genres of music and this album will be no different. Eric has pushed me as a guitarist to come up with riffs heavier and darker than I'm used to playing. Exploring those new areas for me has been exciting. Very excited capture it all on tape.. or hard disk rather.

I'll be keeping the Record Time masses updated on our progress as it continues. If you're interested in our band we've love for you to cruise by our facebook, or reverbnation pages. Also, search us on YouTube. We have a couple episodes of something we call the "365 Project." It was our attempt of writing, recording and releasing music in the same day. It was fun and some of it was pretty decent. I think a week is a little more realistic, thanks Record Time!

Mike Godlove

guitarist for Intraphase

Lobster Shanty is on board!

This will be my 6th Record Time. I look forward to it every time I get the phone call from Dan when he gets the RT-itch.

Lobster Shanty and the Crab Rangoons will set sail once again for RTVII. Collaborating is something that I've found to be really fun with this event as well. Although only one of the albums submitted has been a joint effort, I think the team effort is definitely worth pursuing if you haven't tried it!

After several discussions with my fellow collaborator, Nick, we decided that we're going to go for an old school funk record--circa 1960s. Should be pretty fun, and our low-tech gear should hopefully add to that cloudy lo-fi sound. I don't think that I'll be contributing any guitar this time around since Nick is a more dutiful guitarist in the funk department. Me only needing to do Drums and Vox should hopefully let me better focus on those 2 things, yielding a more thoughtful performance...(record) time will tell.

I will say that it's really great to see some old names returning for RTVII. It's fun to hear how everyone's tastes change over the years, and try to pick up on their influences since the last Record Time! Hopefully people contribute more to the blog this time around...I think it's a great addition for motivation's sake.

Oh herro.

Dan here. Figured I'd write a bit about my current RT plans, as I'm gonna be busy for the next few days!

This time around, I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible. As with last time, I've got about a 3-hour window each night of the week, plus two full weekend days.

As some of you may know, I'm currently working on a musical, which has been an absolute blast. It really emphasizes all of the things I look for in music -- great vocal melodies, great lyrics, and a sense of humor. I've always enjoyed musicals, and have even written a couple ridiculous ones, but I'm only starting to realize that this might be where my skills are taking me. Maybe not, who knows.

But in writing it, the one thing I've enjoyed most is playing and writing at the piano. I write everything out on staff paper, and don't have to touch a computer until the song is done. For RT7, I decided I would record a piano trio album, so I could focus on the songwriting rather than recording aspect.

Coincidentally, I've been getting into really old-timey music, especially vaudeville stuff from the 1910s, as well as pop from the 30s and 40s and early brass band jazz. On top of that, there's my new obsession with the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the music for a lot of old Disney movies, as well as the music for Disneyland itself.

So I guess my idea is a sort of neo-vaudeville-Disneyland album, but I'm sure it will turn into something much more strange. I'm trying to steer away from another "kids" album, but it'll be hard to write anything but the most innocent lyrics to this stuff. I also plan on taking a stab at some barbershop quartet.

So hopefully this will be a stress-free album recording-wise...just piano, drums, and bass. I've also got a new tube mic, so hopefully I can get a slightly vintage feel. My voice doesn't fit the style AT ALL, which will hopefully make it interesting and not terrible.

So that's the concept thus far...we'll see how long it lasts!

Dan

I'm really excited for this opportunity. I decided I'm gonna avoid doing anything guitar-related for the most part, to avoid using any ideas I may already have cooking subconsciously. It should be interesting to see what everyone creates next week.

Looking forward for all the process that will happen in this week. For me, this week will be hard to record, but will do my best to record at least one jam.

Let the games begin...