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Canyon Overlook, Zion National Park, Feb. 2014

- Photo By Brain Faini

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stop ruining people’s pictures. they don’t want you captioning them with indie. trust me.

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Who has actually been here (Me)

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I've actually been here too

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I have successfully collected The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die ‘s entire discography. I am a happy lad right now.

theworldisa

i get to talk about between bodies in my sound production class, anything cool happen during the recording process?

That was a pretty cool process…

From my perspective we hadn’t officially written anything for it, aside from coming up with transitional pieces between songs for live performance. Chris Z sent us a few recorded pieces before we were set to go to the studio, but nothing was ever really solidified beforehand…

Guitar was laid down first, because I couldn’t make it to the first two days of recording, and because we were essentially writing in studio. D. did a rough estimation of how many times through a part needed to be, and a rough tempo map of all the pieces.

We knew that the EP was going to have a particular flow so coming in with a concrete map of tempos and structures was pretty cool for me… I laid down drums the same day as learning the songs.

Next came more guitars + bass + keys, and then Dave and Chris’s vocals.

The incredible thing about recording with Chris Teti is that we all have a lot of time to mess with parts / tone… nothing is off limits. I remember going up to the studio with percussion gear from a college later on in the sessions… wind gongs, prayer bells, weird shakers, or anything else I could grab. We even set up a completely different kit for “the distance” recording.

So, this was a pretty exceptional recording process. The result was tight.

-steven

More of us should weigh in on this topic…

theworldisa

I like to think of this record as a series of intricate loops. A lot of guitar parts and layers were recorded in small sections, and we would then repeat certain takes to determine the length of some tracks. We cut and stretched out a lot of different parts and I did it all in a single Pro Tools session to get the transitions/pacing right between the songs. The distorted drums at the end of $100 Tip are actually just a mono room mic distorted through a distressor- and are taken from the scrapped drums for that song. We tried tracking drums to it but it didn’t sound quite right with a full standard kit behind it. I think D told me to do something weird with it so I chopped up random different fills steve had done. There are a lot of drone notes going on under the instrumentation, heavily pitch shifted guitars (sometimes with a pedal) but also just with the standard Time Shifter Audio Suite plugin to make digital noise layers, etc.

The music for Note to the Author was done at the different tempo than the vocals Chris had laid out to just a click. It was pure chance that I moved the vocals in to a spot to compare their lengths, and they happened to work with the rest of the music when I left the track unmuted.

The most fun part is combining noise elements with more standard songs. Really going to far surpass anything production wise on Between Bodies with this next LP. Stoked with how things have been coming together for newer material+ we started recording BB about a year and a half ago, which feels like an eternity to me.

-Chris

theworldisa

this was the first time i’ve ever worked on a record that wasn’t just “here is a collection of songs we wrote at practice and now we can finally afford to record them.” some of these were just guitar loops and ideas that i had for years but never ended up using for a band and the others we songs that came together as improvisations during the last few years of touring. "autotonsorialist" was a guitar loop i wrote for my old band Talk Slower from like 2007 but that band broke up before we used it. when i first started the one hundred year ocean project I would play this loop with different lyrics live but abandoned it after a few shows. the looping riffs is just mostly me trying to write something as great as Form of Rocket’s "My Name is a Killing Word" the riff that repeats in “if and when i die” is something i wrote in 2004 with a friend right after i graduated high school. my roommate had a 4 track and we tried to write and record some stuff but didn’t really put much effort into it after the first time we got together. i had always remembered and played the riff and decided sort of impulsively to try to build it in the studio. i originally wrote “thanks” as a 30 second song for a proposed comp 7” of all the bands that lived or practiced at my old house The Handsome Woman in Willimantic CT. the idea was for all like 14 projects to do super short songs on a 7” called “Do You Want Something From Across the Street?” (we lived across from 2 24-hour gas stations and a pizza place). I have the demo of it I recorded years and years ago. Maybe I’ll put it on something later on. working on this record made me never want to rush to finish a recording project and also find comfort in being unprepared when we go into the studio. i definitely prefer letting things build naturally now rather than over thinking every song we write or trying to micro-manage the writing process because a part didn’t come out the way i thought of it in my head. - d

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Sioux Falls - Stinks To Be You

my dog is now his dog there’s no one at the bus stop so it probably just left we’re headed to woodstock there’s a party in a castle that i don’t want to go to my friends will think i’m so rude but i’d rather stay home and eat junk food and think of you i stubbed my toe it stings like 17 it stinks to be you in ‘89 I’d sign to K in ‘92 you’d think i’m cool but i’d be like ooh ooh

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Fucking amazing

theworldisa

The world is a beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to smoke weed every day and worship the devil

The devil is real and I wear his marks

theworldisa

can you post lyrics to outer heaven?

No

theworldisa

I’m sure if dave sees this he can post the lyrics. Idk why Greg has to be such an asshole. - d

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You came over with a week of hangovers, but honestly there’s not enough room on the globe. I need a need. I need a need. Oh god, there’s another missed call on the phone: another chance thrown down, stomped out; another job another friend. How does it stop? For some money. Two slices a day won’t work. We both used to live off one bag of rice in a whole month. Anywhere you can enter is a new domain. Anywhere you can write is a canvas. Anywhere you can leave your things. Anywhere you become a home. Anywhere you can drive across. Anywhere you become a road. You think there’s no way to read the future. You think we’re alone because you only know the past. Not reading enough to think that hard. Not speaking to others enough to know how to talk. We don’t hear we just walk around smiling at signs and leaving our stuff on the ground. Stop talking. It’s distracting from action. The people you brought here need silence— Lock yourself somewhere, but get the kids out first. Barricade the door. Set everything on fire. Wait 51 days. They’ll do it for you. You can’t talk about it yet. You can’t sleep through ‘til noon. You can barely feel weight of your house keys. You aren’t well enough to walk. You just cough instead of nod. I keep counting your blinks as a win. We don’t give to keep our stock. We don’t see inside the dark. We don’t even get excited when we eat. Not in the woods behind their house, not in jail if they get out. I don’t care if they don’t catch me, i don’t care.

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thank you !!!! these are awesome!!!!