Today (well, technically yesterday... but I'll say today) a neat bit of synchronicity happened in the Fish&Birdiverse. There is a song of ours entitled Hail, which is actually the first song Adam & I ever performed together. We played around with it when we were recording our first CD but no satisfactory recording of it came about at that time. Now that we're into recording our second CD, we decided to include Hail this time around, and so today finally sat down in the studio to revisit it in that context for the first time in well over a year. It rained early this morning but by noon it was looking like it was shaping up to be a clear sunny day. So, Adam and I met in the village for coffee and then set off for a day of recording. We originally planned to do work on the track "My Garden" but for whatever reason ended up trying a live and organic recording of Hail instead, much the way we did Mark My Grave a few weeks ago.
Then, at the end of maybe our fourth or fifth take, I heard a noise, which at first I thought was somebody trying to open the door, but when I turned to look out the window I saw that just as Adam & I had struck our final notes it had begun to hail, loud and hard. Small hail, and not quite the kind I wrote the song about, but still something that I scarcely see in Victoria and that has never interrupted us recording before, let alone during songs about it. After taking a few moments to register the fact that, as Adam put it at the time, it was "...fucking hailing", we decided one more take, during which the hail died down, having lasted about a minute and a half. That recording, hail and all, is the one you'll hear on our album. It's maybe not the most technically perfect performance we've ever done of that song, but it's got a certain energy to it, and just about the best performance from mother nature we could've reasonably asked for.
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