A Love Letter (sort of)
Dear eL,
We’re recording.
Having undergone some twists and turns in the past months, it gives me so much relief to be saying those two words.
The fact that we’ve been laying out tracks in Pheonix Glide Studio for more than two weeks now is, indeed, a massive leap in progress for this band. Nonetheless, we have more work cut out for us in the weeks ahead.
As of this writing, we have already recorded the basic tracks (except for vocals) for two songs: the chant-y “Lover’s Mantra” and the upbeat “Drowned”, with the latter defying expectations (at least mine anyway). I tell you, the full-band treatment for this song is completely different from the acoustic guitar version which Tessa and I recorded in Makoy’s and Yan’s pad a few months ago. Thanks largely to Gaw’s incendiary guitar chops.
Makoy and I have also started laying tracks for five more songs: “Oblivion”, “When Misery Speaks”, “So Hard, So Deep”, “Virgin’s Orgasm” and “Mid-flight” (a little bit tricky). That leaves us with three more songs plus some minor overdubs on “Random”. So I guess we still have a lot of work to do before the year ends. By the way, we now have a tentative title for the album (compliments of Yan), but I will keep that information a secret for now (hint: for some reason, I can hear a heavenly choir whenever someone utters the word).
On another note, we did our photo shoot (with photography wunderkind Mai Demeterio behind the lens) over the weekend and we hope to post some of the pictures here soon. We’ll be posting more updates in case something interesting happens (like “left behind” incident—but more on that later).
So, how was your weekend?
Love,
Guile
guile loves his girlfriend, adores (er, adored) Michael Jackson, and wants "to be complete". When he's not playing bass for Hastang, he creates thingamajigs for icomm and writes gibberish in his not-so-secret diary.
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Waaaaahhh! After last weekend’s photo shoot, we headed to the nearest mall to grab a very late lunch. The hunger must have been overwhelming, coz we accidentally left Guile in the car. Imagine him trapped in the back area of the vehicle (usually reserved for the baggage - but it was a tight ship, so he had to sit there), without a single peso in his pre-paid phone, and with no means of escaping. Waaaahhh! If Phoebe (Gaw’s better half) had not noticed that Guile was missing, who knows how long he could have been trapped inside? Our apologies to Guile. (You have to admit it’s funny, though. bwahahah)
6 December 2005 at 8:45 pm