Ok, so I arrived in Nashua, NH yesterday and Greg kinda figured that he and me should get started on music stuff today, so we did. I would’ve never thought that we’d record several songs. One is an old Southern Sickness song. Greg laid down the bass and the keys and I dod the guitars and the vocals. The song is called Song for Kiki and is about a romantic crack addict encounter I had while at university.
The second song we did is just something else. I had this chorus that I’d been fooling around with for a while and a riff that worked well enough for an intro. I made another riff to be the base of a verse. I did the guitar work and the bass and while Greg recorded the keys and the unbelievable shredder guitar solo I wrote some lyrics. It’s a disturbing piece about a happy couple and it’s called Wife Battery. Very much in the vain of Faith No More which I’m very glad about :)
Southern Sickness “Song For Kiki” (demo) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The Girardin Nordström Project “Wife Battery” (demo)
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There’s a third song as well. We were supposed to go watch a baseball game but the weather sucked so we decided to keep recording. This song took a bit longer to record than previous ones (which might have to do with the fact that we wrote it while recording it). I think I recorded about everything but Greg glued it all together very well and had some great ideas. He’s a master man. Not good with the brew though.
The Girardin Nordström Project “Active Nature” (aug 2005)
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It’s about me being stranded at an airport in London two weeks ago and that experience we kinda mixed with the current happenings with the Katrina hurricane that is raging in the southern parts of the US. Hope you like it. It’s something of a mix between Chroma Key, Fates Warning and Porcupine Tree… or something.
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