Erin Lang Music

Disclaimer: or rather giving credit where credit is due. I hesitated to do this before because of Melissa Aufdermar’s excellent album blog but then thought maybe just to mention that i was inspired by hers makes this all okay!! Thanks Melissa!

It is watermelon and flip flops warm and a lovely time to be polishing up songs that we cooked cradled and cooed in winter when these parts of the world were snow blanketed and icicle pierced. the frost seems to melt from them and they show tender summer flower faces which is a nice surprise! i thought that this album would be undeniably grey skys and sweater wearing music but now in the bright sunshine it seems it can be many things. to my ears at least..

After the previous evening at Weilheims finest Greek restaurant that we decided to treat ourselves to after completing the recording of ‘You’re coming Home’ we are opening ‘Empty’ to have another look and listen. It is the oldest song on the record which i wrote in my Kensington market apartment oblivious to the fish tank bubbling away next to the microphone. it must have been the summer of 2001 when Kensington market was still laden with all variety of exotic fruits and vegetables and endless dry goods shops and punks hot under their army surplus gear but i digress ( and i fear it wont be the only time!)

as the oldest song it does have a nostalgic quality for me and more laden and apparent lyrical content than the more cloaked and veiled meanings that i tend to allude to now or in the more recent years. I think this is nice to see the difference and to have some of the ‘a bit younger’ more openness on the album.

Over the Christmas holidays in Toronto Paul Van Dongen brought his cello over and in the most inconvenient recording circumstances he played and Roger and I recorded some very sad and sweet parts for this song. Today we opened up the files and against the odds (one set of headphones and no control over the balance of the other parts to play too) the cello really sounds beautiful. Robin my brother filmed for part of the time and hung around then we spent a nice evening eating pasta.

So some cello editing and maybe some drum programing today on the oldest song on the album, maybe a bit more and maybe a drink tonight at Weilheims best watering hole (open only 2 days a week) Cafe Central.