February 01, 2009

¡Jackpot! or ¡Obamanos!

Obama won, and as we are upholders of our promises, Becca and I are sitting in the control room of Jackpot! studios deep in Portland Oregon. Willis is in the live room stunning us with his shaker prowess. We have used more percussion here than ever before. There are cymbal grabs. All this shaking comes 5 hours after Willy gets a phone call from a friend informing him that his drumming was featured on a super bowl commercial. Yes, get in line folks.

We are all here recording tracks for the next full length Light Footwork album. So not so dubiously, we are knee deep in a very weird yet inspired recording. We aren't sure what the cool way to release albums is anymore, so if anyone wants to give us clues please let us know. Cassette tape maybe? Also any aspiring DJ/Remixers out there, drop us an email.

All in all, this is being done in traditional footwork fashion. We got into the room with about 65% of each song written and kind of improvised from there. At this point, I for one, am very satisfied with the results. Becca has been playing a lot of bass. I've been playing a lot of bass. There is Baritone guitar, steel drums, porcelain bowl, anything and everything else you may want. We will keep you posted and abreast of our activities. Target release date is September 2009.

Go make babies so they can have the same birthday as our album!