I love recording with Noah & the guys in L.A !!

Hey there,

I take a chance on this free weekend i have to tell you a bit about my second week in L.A.

Fiona left us on Wednesday, and I miss her very much cause she was part of all this, and i could see she worked her ass off this project! Everyone liked her at the studio, she was quiet but always in a good mood and looking so cute, how can you resist!!! my baby sister wowowowo!! Can't wait to see what she filmed, she was so professional! Always filming, and very patient for once! Hahaha

Hope to see her soon again.

So, i was at the studio everyday this week, spending my only time there, 12 hours a day, seven days in a raw, doesn't leave so much time for other stuff, but i love it! It's true that to stay in touch with you guys back in Europe, it's a little hard to keep up! Specially since my baby is in Greece, those 10 hours difference are a real pain in the a#@! Like 9 hours wasn't already enough!! Anyway, this last Friday was a little hard and i was glad to rest for a couple of days and take some distance with the project. The only one who could still keep up, was Noah, as usual. By the way, he gave us, Greg and I, a little time off, just enough to go and see the « Little Joy » concert at the TROUBADOUR. « Little Joy » being one of his last produced album, in which you'll find the drummer of the Strokes singing and playing guitar, anyway, this place, the TROUBADOUR is such a mystical place here in Los Angeles. Most of the talents since the 60s' where discovered there, Dylan, Waits, Young, Cash & June Carter, Joni Mitchell and Tim Buckley! Actually this is where Janis Joplin spent her last night, the next day she was found dead from an O.D. Also Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, first concert of Fiona Apple ever, and then the whole rock scene of the moment, Guns'roses, Metallica, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Pepper, Pearl Jam...etc

Check this out : http://www.troubadour.com/

So, even though we missed out on half of the performance, it sounded really cool, and there was such a cool ambiance,that i wanted to enjoy every minute of it. On the last song they played « Brand New Start », Devendra came up on the stage with Fabrizio from The Strokes to dance and sing, it all looked pretty fun so i pushed Greg in front, so he could go and join them but he was shy. He plays the drums on my album, but he is essentially in Devendra's band and also in a duet album with him, a project and album under the name of « Megapuss » , and he also have another band back in New York called « Priestbird », that i actually happen to like very much, check it out on myspace if you want: www.myspace.com/priestbird and www.myspace.com/megapuss

So here you go for the promotion hahaha!!

So to come back to the concert, at the end of it, we went up to the backstage to say hello and introduce myself. It was all so exciting for me, since it was my first concert in L.A and i was getting to meet the artists. It was more than i could expected! And c'mon the Troubadour's Backstage?! Yeah! So Greg introduced me to Lauren Dukoff the photographer who follows them everywhere every time (www.laurendukoff.com), Devendra and the others musicians. I liked it because it wasn't like i was being a groupie trying to make her way through the backstage to be able to get some of the artists attention, trying to catch a word or a flirt. I was there because there was a real reason for me to be there. I'm a singer-song-writer and I'm here recording an album with a producer they all know, it calls for attention and curiosity i would say, no? So i got to talk a little bit with Devendra, and even joke a little bit... I invited him to come over to the studio to listen to the music and maybe sing with me on one of my songs. He seemed pleased and said he'd like to. We'll see about that. Then we spoke in Spanish a little bit, and i completely made a fool of myself, but that's not common news right? I told him how i liked one of his songs of the «cripple crow» album, and of course it was the only one he hadn't wrote. Him and Greg made such fun of me, gosh that was shameful and embarrassing, but again, I'm used to this....

Then it was time to go, so we left, but what i forgot to say is that we had taken Greg's car, the “El Camino“, and i was so proud to enter Hollywood Blvd and Sunset in that car, people were staring from their high 4X4 or even worst, Hummer, while we were in this vintage-3000$-on craigslist-car, listening to Venezuelan singer “Simon Diaz“!!! So classy, so cool, so unforgettable.

We didn't stay much longer at the studio that night, we just waited so Noah could give us the work we had recorded this past week, so we could listen to it during the week-end and see whatever needed to be changed or improved, or just enjoy it. It's hard because we do need to detach ourselves a little from the project during that weekend, to be able to come back fresher and renewed on Monday, but not so much. See what i mean? We have to stay still in the same vibe next week. We left with 8 tracks that night, it's good for my first week i guess!

Here you go for my second week in the city of lights. I mostly concentrated it on one night, but it's because I won't go in every details of the recording it would be way too long, should I ? Though i think I'm already describing enough, no?? It's simple, we spent the whole week recording drums with Greg and Bass with Luckey. We had fun, we work hard and good i think. Since Tuesday we did a song per day, “full moon doll“, “save your skin“, “i won't tell you“, “follow the crow“… I'm very happy about those songs, they're all different from one another but still there's a good homogeneous feeling int the end.

The guys like it, and it pleases me so so much that they consider my music a little bit... The favourite for the moment is « Full Moon Doll » i think. When we listened to it the other day, we were all so excited about it, the drums and percussion are perfect on it, and the bass is so special, Luckey is soooooo gooooood at it!!! It's a very dreamy song. Sort of psychedelic-poetic-folk rock-song. Might be the album's name,what do you think?.....hahahah

Love you guys

Take care,

Tamara

Xxx