6 powerful months kick off '09 for TN
-January 2009 - Marked the release of True Nature's - 'Feels Like Centuries' EP and has been the first year of True Nature's emergence on U.S. & International Radio circuits. Canada was extra good to me, thank you Alan Cross of 'Explore Music.'
My fellow Americans, Alan Cross & his TV/ Radio show 'Explore Music' are a big deal in The Canadian Music Scene. It gets Nationally syndicated out of Toronto to all of Canada's 8 major city radio stations. Google: Alan Cross Explore Music - immediately !!!!!
As you can also see in the Press section on True Nature's My-Space, some really great CD review highlights are posted and more reviews continue to pour in to this day!
-July 2009 - I found myself performing new songs for my friend and producer Aaron Comess at his Manhattan home studio. We immediately felt a sense of excitement. Even in the fresh wake of 'Feels Like Centuries' being well received Aaron felt that these new songs would 'exceed' all our efforts so far.
-August 2009 - Thanks to our awesome engineer, Roman Klun (Note: Fellow Canadian) who holds great powers of opening big doors, our legendary crew reconvened to record at a massive converted barn studio, 'Apple Head Recording,' in Woodstock NY.
Where else but Woodstock to flatten minds, open hearts and just get real with the cows. Apparently that very weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the historic 3 day Woodstock Music Festival (August 15-18, 1969). The new Ang Lee film "Taking Woodstock" offers a perspective about this most important event in all of Rock's history !
The complex matrix of heavy touring & session schedules barely allows a few days in an entire year that Aaron, Tony Levin, Gerry Leonard, Roman & myself, not to mention Studio availability, can get together and work ! ...and it fell on such historic days, .... Oh Man
This was the stuff Rock and Roll dreams are made of. A three story spiral staircase led to the sleeping quarters that over looked the entire studio where I slept for 3 nights during our tracking. Apparently The Rolling Stones used the Neve Mixing console and John Mayer recorded his smash hit debut album at Apple Head. Honestly I've never been in a studio quite like this and was really glad I arrived a night before everyone else did. At 2am, with a glass of California's best red, I meditated by a calming running brook just outside of the living room's sliding glass doors....
The next morning Aaron arrived early & was excited because the massive space & 60 ft. acoustically treated ceiling is the kind of setting that John Bonham required, and so did AC! There was one song we did that Tony Levin commented on during our tracking, "The drums are so loud in the room with me; I'd like to re-record my bass separately," which Tony did in just 1 take that blew us all away, especially because Tony took it to yet another level in doing so....
As I write this, we still have to finish all of Gerry Leonard's other worldly guitars. We are also yet to finish my final lead vocal and then add all the backgrounds. But what we now have are a strong sense of these fully shaped songs with Tony' s monumental performance and Aaron's true rock soul drumming.
"I'm trying to crawl to a future not so small." One of my own favorite lines from the upcoming material .....
I am the sole alias known as True Nature and I have and will continue to perform & record with different musicians. But A magical chapter is completing itself now that early 2010 will see the fruits of this labor ....