For those of wondering about the infrequency of shows, and what we've been up too, I'd thought drop a line. We have currently been experimenting with the long and tricky process of "recording yourselves". Although individually we have all dabbled with this art on our own for years to some degree or another,  it's interesting to note how much of an "artform" it truly is. The producers we have had the honour to work with are masters, and we are just students, so following in their footsteps with our means has been humbling. It has however, made us learn ways to deal with what we have. I appreciate learning this lesson again, for as the Almighty Grace, his Holiness, Mick Jagger has stated, "You Can't Always, Get Want You Want, But if You Try Sometimes, You Get What You Need."

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Hey Folks, thanks for making it to our release of "Angels And Demons, Space And Time
> Ben, the projections were amazing, Mama Cass, spin after spin of goodness - Sky Lynn thank you for the vocal beauty - Blue Light Curtain waves of sonic fury - Joy Wants Eternity many magical miaestros - Zac Gray our artist for all our records made it from Chicago - Zack Reinig inspiration and product placement - Mike Cupids SF fellowship and beyond - Greedy Greg (check out grredtone pedlas!) builds sonic perfection @ the Cobra --Danielle took some nice photos of us. Thank you for filming!

Love,

Hypatia Lake

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I love Scott Colburn....

I wanted to post a bulletin w/ a quote from Scott regarding an experimental track off of our upcoming release. You don't understand how happy I was that Scott was open minded enough to do this track, as most people, let alone most engineers, would have probably just looked at me and told me i was fucking crazy.......checkitout "Audio Geekery alert!!! The Hypatia Lake session included many really cool recording techniques, but the one that was simply too serendipitous was what is now called the Numerological Phi recording technique 7. Lance from Hypatia Lake asked if we could setup a triangle of amplifiers that were laid back in a way so that all of the sound would collect in a point in the stratosphere of the room to form a "sound pyramid" so to speak. Since my control room is designed around the Golden Mean Ratio (phi), we thought that using Phi as a beginning point would be a good idea. So try to follow this: Two Pathfinder amps connected to two 12" speakers where placed 7 feet apart. A third amp which was of the Fender Twin variety was placed at a distance equivalent to Phi from the bisection of the line formed between the first two amps. This sort of looks like a capital T. All three amps where angled back so that the pyramid point was about 7 feet above the middle of the T. A binaural mic was placed in the apex of the pyramid. Two room mics were placed at 7 feet tall as well, but their bases formed an equilateral triangle with the Fender amp. These measurements were all 7 feet, forming a 777 triangle within the T. a sound recording was fed to all three amps simultaneously. The two feeds to the Pathfinder amps were run through a stereo tremelo which Lance adjusted by hand during the recording to make the sound move faster or slower depending on the feel of the piece. Each amp was also close mic'd. If you stood at the apex, it was physically disorienting, but the recording is a stellar audio journey into worlds unknown. " Scott Colburn

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Both YUYM and Joseph are now available through many different digital stores, including I-Tunes among others. We are being distributed thhrough IODA, so if you search for us you should be able to find us. I'll post some links on the comment section of this blog soon.

 

Cheers, Lance7777777

Alright. that's it. No more obsessive fiddling w/ the record. It is officially fucking finished. Now we get it mastered at RFI by Ed Brooks on the 17th of December and that's that. We're getting everything in line for the album's release in mid April, and we'll be taking a local break up till the release after our show at the Crocodile on January 11th. If any of you are interested in helping us promote the new album, that is, if you run a blog, write reviews, or what have you, contact us through this space and we'll get back to you with bells on.

 

Cheers, Lance7777777

After drilling the songs into my head countless times, I have found some irritating quirks connected to little details that i cannot get past.....so we have one more day and then it's going to be put to rest....the mastering date is set for the 17th of December, and that my friends will seal the deal.  At this point, it looks like we'll be self releasing this album, as our gracious distributor has agreed to keep us on, with or without a label. Since distribution is the most necessary thing you can get from a label, I can't see any reason to keep our music in a vault. If someone sees/understands the vision presented in this album down the line, then we'll talk about it then. As it stands, the ablum should be available digitally in March and physically in April. We'll be posting demos and things that didn't make the cut on this player and on our website that you can download for free to give a preview of what's going on in Hypatia Lake. Tahnks for yr. pateince, and I look forward to hearing yr. thoughts on the direction we have taken this little Universe of ours.

Cheers, Lance7777777

So last night was the "final" mixing session for our new album, "Angels and Demons, Space and Time", and I'd like to say it's finished, but I need to let it breathe a bit, reflect on it it some more, before coming to terms w/ it.

It was alot of fun recording w/ Scott and I was very pleased w/ how our ideas seemed to click w/ him, and alot of things that most producers would find intimidating or just too wiers to do, he was open to. I am surprised by the sheer amount of acoustic guitar ended up on this record, as it was never my original intention for it to to be a a light album, but it felt natural to use it as the ground of a number of the songs, and the results are quite pleasing to my ear. We'll just have to wait to see what our fans think of this step.

It looks like there will be a total of 12 songs, w/ 2 transitionary loops that aren't quite songs, so our longest album to date. It is also the most diverse of our efforts, covering alot of ground from tender ballads to walls of noise. We'll be releasing an EP in limited quantites that will contain demo's of the songs from this record, as some live recording and maybe some live footage in CD-Rom format........The release date is still to distant to quantify, but let's be hopeful and say early next year.

Love and Light........................7777777

So after our intial attempt to start recording a record several months ago ended in a rushed result that was less than ideal, we forged ahead to work on sculpting the aspects that we found useful from those sessions into the groundwork of what we are now preparing to commit. Intially, I had hoped to make the third record a type of space rock opera, as the direction of one of the tracks from the previous sessions was a very interesting piece that would lend to that type of thing if other songs were to follow suit, but the nature and scope of songs like that take more studio time and money than what we currently possess, so our direction has shifted toward creating an album more focused on the raw, psychedelic, live energy than on layering and tons of keyboards.  I am very excited to be forging this adventure with Scott Colburn (arcade fire, animal collective), who recently recorded my other project, This Blinding Light. I am confident that he will be able to capture our live energy, and the room we'll be working in is quite special in terms of it's acoustic and energetic qualities. We are attempting quite a feat this time around, in the sense that we are going to be recording 14 songs in 3 days and mixing them in another 3. Some of you may know that "Joseph" was recorded and mixed over a period of almost 2 years! That being said, this will be a much different approach than what we've been used to. With change can come greatness, and that is what we're striving for with this new one. A different energy, with an introduction to different characters, to a landscape through vortexes both mental and emotional, as archetypes within Joseph Bigsby are given defintion, and inhabitants are transported across Space and Time to forge on new adventures. Wish us Luck!  Cheers, Lance7777777

Hey check out these 2 films, as our music is used in them. Tomorrow Mourning-http://www.myspace.com/tomorrowmourningfilm  and The Weathered Underground. I'm not sure if The Weathered Underground is availble yet, and we'll post a link as soon as I find one. here is the skinny on them:

                                          Tomorrow Mourning

                                                    premise

it would seem as if we have control of our own lives and our own destinies. the life we lead is determined by the choices we make. the choices we must make are at times, if not always, somehow connected by the choices of others. do we really control our own fate? or is the randomness of it all so chaotic at first sight, that we cannot see how well organized life is, just below the surface.

this story is a glimpse into the lives of six strangers as they drift through life hoping the next door that opens will be the door to their salvation. they will all, in their own way, come to find that no matter what choices are made, life is not theirs to control. when a person hits the rocky bottom of their life they come to realize that at the bottom is where life truly begins.

each of these six people represent the foundation of the society we live in. more than a story about destiny, more than a story about prejudice and hatred, more than a look into the troubled lives of today's youth, tomorrow mourning is a harsh look into the darkest corners of society. it explores the idea that no part of society is exempt from loss and pain. there are two constants that remain true in all walks of life...time and pain. while time waits for no man, woman or child...pain does not discriminate.

                                        The Weathered Underground

It's a choose your own adventure, interactive story in which you are a Hipster named Eric, and you get to live his dysfunctional fucked up life.  Kind of like a film verison of the Sims....It's alot of fun....