Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea
On February 15th, after several years of recording and countless ups and downs, Glider released a new album called "Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea." As the drummer for Glider, having the album finally released is especially exciting, especially since there were times when all of us in the band thought that the album would never be completed. To celebrate it's release, I wanted to take a few minutes to look back at a few of the memories I have of creating the album...
The oldest emails I have concerning the album date back to march of 2007, but I'm fairly sure we started tracking in 2006. At that time, we were recording at a pretty aggressive rate and sending demos and bounces back and forth, trying out different ideas. It was definitely an exciting time.
We had a practice studio in Santa Ana as well, and we spent a lot of late nights there writing, as well as demoing songs onto an old video camera. When we would leave the lockout and go back to Rory and Brian's, Rory would take the audio off the camera and make us all CD's to listen to.
I also have a vivid memory of being at South Coast Plaza and getting a call from Brian. He said he had come up with a name for the album. He wanted to call it "Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea." I remember really liking the name a lot.
Long story short, our momentum slowed, and the years passed with no release in sight. Rory moved to Santa Cruz, Brian and I started playing in other projects, and the album was left in a state of limbo. We tried a few times to get some momentum to finish recording, but it never seemed to stick. Every ever so often, I would come across a song or a CD-R full of Glider demos and I'd listen to it and wish that we could find a way to put the album out.
In late 2012, we decided to give it one last try. Then we got some bad news. The hard drive that we had used for recording the album had broken. Needless to say, it was pretty devastating, but as we each spent time listening to copies of the songs we had that were "in progress," we felt that it was actually very listenable in the state that it was in. Ultimately, we made the decision to release it as a "snapshot" of where it was, and where we were intending to take it.
We all went through all of our old Glider recordings (on CD-R's and our computers) and finalized a track list. Then, we sent the songs up to Rory and he mastered them in his studio. What resulted is something we're all very proud of, and very proud to share with you as well.
Related Links:
Glider - Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea (Bandcamp)
The oldest emails I have concerning the album date back to march of 2007, but I'm fairly sure we started tracking in 2006. At that time, we were recording at a pretty aggressive rate and sending demos and bounces back and forth, trying out different ideas. It was definitely an exciting time.
We had a practice studio in Santa Ana as well, and we spent a lot of late nights there writing, as well as demoing songs onto an old video camera. When we would leave the lockout and go back to Rory and Brian's, Rory would take the audio off the camera and make us all CD's to listen to.
I also have a vivid memory of being at South Coast Plaza and getting a call from Brian. He said he had come up with a name for the album. He wanted to call it "Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea." I remember really liking the name a lot.
Long story short, our momentum slowed, and the years passed with no release in sight. Rory moved to Santa Cruz, Brian and I started playing in other projects, and the album was left in a state of limbo. We tried a few times to get some momentum to finish recording, but it never seemed to stick. Every ever so often, I would come across a song or a CD-R full of Glider demos and I'd listen to it and wish that we could find a way to put the album out.
In late 2012, we decided to give it one last try. Then we got some bad news. The hard drive that we had used for recording the album had broken. Needless to say, it was pretty devastating, but as we each spent time listening to copies of the songs we had that were "in progress," we felt that it was actually very listenable in the state that it was in. Ultimately, we made the decision to release it as a "snapshot" of where it was, and where we were intending to take it.
We all went through all of our old Glider recordings (on CD-R's and our computers) and finalized a track list. Then, we sent the songs up to Rory and he mastered them in his studio. What resulted is something we're all very proud of, and very proud to share with you as well.
Related Links:
Glider - Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea (Bandcamp)
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Right now I'm listening to:
Glider (Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea)
Glider (Asleep In The Arms Of The Sea)
