Comfortable in Your Own Skin

 December 5th, 2010 ›

Yesterday afternoon and evening we recorded some vocal harmonies for a new song called “Bag of Nails.”  We were trying to redo the vocals because the first vocals were kind of “demos” if you will.  After beating our heads re-singing these vocals we decided to keep the original vocals because they sounded so good.  And even though they may not be the most perfect vocal technically, they had so much emotion in them.  They sounded great.  It was simply something we could not recapture.  So instead we decided to rebuild on the “demo” vocal line.  And we added harmony parts.  I thought about a documentary on the Bee Gee’s that I saw the other night.  one of the members, I can’t remember which, said that a lot of artists today are lacking the use of melody and harmonies….for the simple reason of laziness, it’s a difficult thing to accomplish.  And there’s nothing like the creation of two separate human voices coming together to create one.  So as I thought about this quote I decided to experiment more with harmonies again, in the studio now and later.  I love doing them, it’s harder than to just do one main vocal.  It’s complex to do more than 2 harmony parts.  And as our songs are being mixed we are very proud thus far at what we have produced, engineered, performed, and created on these recordings.  We create songs while we are recording and this ends up being the way we work most of the time.  That and a focus on making the best songs that we can at this point of what is Ledaswan.  A band that’s revolved around the love, and friendship of a few individuals.  Some in passing, but the center, stays encompassed.  It’s been quite some road and we’ve had the pleasure of growing gracefully on this road.  Sure there are challenges we face.  Lots of challenges.  We fall down & get back up again.  We’ve had people come in and out of our lives that try manipulate us and our art.  We do know is how to be good people and how to create good music that satisfies then challenges us.

One piece of advice that someone gave me as a musician trying to make it in the business….went something like…. “sound original because it will be harder if you sound too much like someone else, because those artists already exist” or something like that.  And now that we’ve become hard to pigeon-hole i’m wondering if I’ve dug myself in a hole.  But I think I don’t care so much what others think.  Just be what you are.  comfortable in your own skin.  I think I’m learning to be comfortable in mine now more than ever.  It’s not easy to do.    Are you comfortable being you?

I could not find the actual clip from the Bee Gee’s Documentary that I saw but I found this as a close replication which is only the first few minutes or two.  We looking forward to our C.D. Release in January!

From the Bee Gees Documentary \”This is Where I Came In\”

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