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New mic came today.

Slice's 'cuz' is coming tomorrow and freeing us some space on the 'studio' so we can set up the interface soon. This means polished songs will be coming soonish. None of this jibberish that was posted last week.

Practiced a bit last night for an audience of one (mr. tom heil) and are close to putting the finishing touches on the tentatively titled song "sweet honey." Lyrics are nearly a go and we've decided to switch the delivery a bit.

Once the interface is in and we're a bit more versed on how to use the 'base things should start to take off. That's where we are.

Oh, and the embedded above is D of E's new video for "NoOneDoesItLikeYou." D of E is Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and his former NYU roomate...whom I revere like Paul.





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sweet honey

above: a baldersnatch


you can listen to the first take of our newest song right hizzere.

this should give yins a bit of an idea of what's to come.
certainly amateur...but then...that's what we are.

should be a bit mo' crisp after the new mic & interface cover our blemishes.

again, the thing's essentially lyricless, aside from the chorus, which was mentioned in the previous post.

i must also add the fact that alex didn't want me to share this extremely rough version, but i've decided to be an ass and put it up anyway. there's no shame in mumbling jargin and butchered notes...so long as it's original mumbling jargin and butchered notes.

lest any man should boast.


good night all...it's nearly 4 a.m. in the midwest. i should have been sleeping a long time ago.







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ford chapel

i'm not going to be able to sleep tonight. as richard ashcroft said in alone with everybody: "i'm on fire / and full of love and new desire."

a-slice and i met up for the second consecutive night in our new venue - ford chapel in schoffler hall. last night, with dr. ken wetstein's blessing, i packed up the "studio" and carried it from the offie to the chapel. it now sits right behind our piano. that's right, our piano. no more casio keyboard riffs.

which reminds me, we also upgraded the guitar. gone are the days of playing on alex's old strummer. kyle renick gave us his bro's hand-me-down, and it's a thing of beauty.

at any rate, why was tonight so special? well, we essentially played our first show. from 9 until around 11 alex and i were having what was arguably our best session ever, as he puts it: "vomitting" ideas and music...the way the creative process should be. we were especially excited about the development of a song we've tentatively called "sweet honey" (yes, we know, stupid). we already had the chorus in order, but we finally have chords and melody (no lyrics yet) for a verse.

the chorus now officially goes:

and i swear you
you've changed me
i've never been so free in love and happy
and i just want
to let you know...
that night i
met you while
talking at the bar all night
i knew then
that something in this world went right

anyway, after wrapping up a great session we decided to call the guys living in the ga house to come check things out. sure enough, awhile later, in comes j-brew, t-heil and m-sanko. we played a four or five song set for them (only the songs we feel comfortable enough to play) and then just hung out for awhile afterwards. we ended up ditching the chapel around midnight. it was such a great time and has my mind racing with ideas and possibilities in terms of what the future might hold.

alex just ordered us a real mic tonight and his cousin is apparently going to rearrange my desktop so that we can run our newly-purchased interface. when all of that happens we figure it will take a month max to make an album. we're planning to be able to put something in our friends and families hands here in about five-to-six weeks, and we're very excited about it. ken wetstein might even make a guest appearance on guitar...stay tuned.

we'll post rough drafts of new songs soon if i have any say. i'm really anxious for people to hear this stuff. we're proud of the majority of what we've been working on lately. admittedly, there is some serious junk as well, but we stand by the better stuff.

again, i can't emphasize enough how great it is to get out of the office. the chapel is the perfect venue - not only to practice, but to hold potential shows. hopefully we'll get the opportunity to host some get-together's there this summer.

...this just got interesting.






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"weekenders"

first thang's first. the b.snatch currently has close to twenty-five original sung tongs under construction. slice and i have come to a conclusion: attempt to put a hault on new material and hone in on the stuff we already have. as alex stated in a previous post, thursday night (i believe) we got 'after it' as the kids say. we practiced some old stuff live and came up with a few new ideas we're happy about. not only that, earlier in the day we finally purchased cubase. we've decided to kick magix to the curb and move up to the minors ('base' certainly isn't the majors, but magix was straight-up grade school...it's time to get serious, we dropped mad money on 'the base' [all of two bills, haha]).

when 'the base' gets here we'll begin to decide which tracks deserve the right to make our first cd-r. as of now i think we'd agree that only a few have truly separated themselves from the pack:

little time (which i posted to the blog awhile ago in accoustic guitar form has now evolved to piano and believed to be one of our stronger tracks...we have a few plans/ideas in terms of which direction we need to go with it but ultimately like where it stands)

singe in a small town (one of only two deframe track's i've recorded since the move to defiance is a song slice enjoys killing over the piano as well...you'll probably see this make the cut when it's all said and done)

alicia (again, a song i posted in the first entry of this blog awhile back)

there are a few other rough tracks (with just as rough names) such as 'tiny dino,' 'all about the idea' and 'sweet honey lullabye' that will most likely end up making the cut, but no song is safe. we have much to work on, or..."much ado about something."

oh, and as for the title of the post...

i was in border town bryan, ohio this evening watching a play in montpelier called 'the lion in winter' with my friend Dawn when she noticed a paper calling for open mic talent at the nearby "little theatre" in bryan. the open mic nights started just recently and will apparently run all the way through the summer through a program called "weekender's." the program calls for poets, singers, jugglers, comics...whoever...from the community each and every saturday. what better place for an opening baldersnatch gig? i can think of none.

i was all about making it start this very saturday, the 21st, but apparently slice will be entertaining youth soccer athletes at a camp he'll be running. still, we soon hope to get our kinks out in front of DOZENS of listeners before attempting the local defiance coffee shops, etc.


i should be writing a paper right now.


much love.







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New Stuff

Today 3/11/09 was a big day in Baldersnatch. We bought new software to record our songs, finally we can actually produce our ideas. Also, today we layed down numerous dirty dirty tracks with a lot of potential. Be ready B snatch is gonna change your life. D simp and A slice out.