Michael Maas music

I returned from vacation ready to finish recording the CD, and promptly got sidelined by bronchitis. I haven’t been able to sing effectively for a month, which obviously has delayed recording. Pretty much everything else is finished, though, so my goal of finishing before Tommy opens (March) is still achievable.

This afternoon I came home and belted out “River Summer,” determined to not worry about minor mistakes and slightly off-key notes. The result is the best recording of that song I’ve been able to come up with yet, warts and all. That song depends so much on the live performance aspect to make it work […]

Work has been steady, if not particularly fast, on recording music. “Amy” is nearly finished - just need to finalize the vocal comp and do some mixing. I’ve got final takes of the piano tracks for “River Summer” and “Sunday Best,” awaiting vocals. I’ve worked on updating “Had it Up to Here.” Most of my […]

Well I’m back from vacation in Russia. The clock where we were is exactly 12 hours off this one, which means I’m unnaturally bright and sunshiney at 5 AM.
My goal for this time period before the school year starts is to get some solid recording work finished. The jet lag isn’t helping: I need to […]

Makes me very, very sad:

Sleater-Kinney breaking up.

Makes me happy:

Cheap Trick’s new album (raise your goblet of power pop!)
Regina Spektor’s “Samson” (this is practically engineered to be Music I’d Like)
Ben Krieger’s 16-minute epic Song Fight! entry this week
Having time to work on music