When Kyle Cassidy, Nicki Jaine, Tara and I collaborated on a goth-industrial cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” I didn’t have the time or the tech to really do it properly.
Well, Kyle got in touch with me recently and told me his guitars sounded lame and too quiet in the old mix. And they were! So, I have done a complete rebuild with the exceedingly cool new technology that Brainclaw now has access to, and the results are much more satisfying than the original mix.
Kyle’s guitars were pumped full of audio steroids, Nicki and Tara’s vocals were re-edited and re-effected, I added “real” drums in the choruses to give them some extra meat, and I ran the whole thing through my new secret weapon.
No, I will NOT tell you what it is. It wouldn’t be a secret anymore if I did!
Please enjoy this high resolution .aiff file of the completely rebuilt Brainclaw cover of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”
Or if you prefer the quick and easy path, (i.e. the dark side) here is the .mp3 version..
Brainclaw spent Sunday with Gary Billings, recording a fantastic new song called “So I Surrender.”
It’s a powerful vocal and acoustic guitar song, and really showcases Gary’s voice at the top of its game.
He will most likely have it posted on his MySpace page very soon.
As always, it was a pleasure working again with such a consummate and passionate professional. Remember that Gary’s solo album called Grey Skies,is now available:
Track Listing:
1. At All
2. Stay
3. Reaping the Wreckage of My Past
4. Castles in the Sand
5.Your Life of Uncertainty
6. Hannah’s Lullaby
You can buy CDs or digital downloads from CDBaby HERE. You can also buy the CD from Isotank.com.
The album is a departure from Gary’s work in Carfax Abbey, and his voice and guitar playing are at their peak.
This is a pure, unadulterated look into Gary’s complex soul, with no frosting or artifice. Please give it a listen, it will be well worth your time.
Tara and I had a fantastic time reuniting with Gary again in our own Studio Auroviral, where much of the Carfax Abbey back catalogue was written and recorded.
Just an interim update on the new Brainclaw album’s progress…
John Ruszin has been doing an insane job of adding guitar tracks to the completed songs on the new Brainclaw release. We’re nearing completion, and the tracks are sounding amazing.
The great thing about John is that he’s a musician’s guitar player. He can play waht needs to be played, and that is especially crucial on this recording. This is going to be a hard electro-industrial release, and his guitar fits the songs perfectly.
John knows exactly how to play, what to play and has a palette of sounds that integrate perfectly with Brainclaw’s electronics.
So please enjoy this surprise sample from the new album, the song “Matte Black Smile.”
Click HERE for a high resolution .mp3 file of the new song.
We will be gearing up for summer shows with John on board to tour the new release.
Thanks to all of you for your support and patience through the album composition process!
We here at the Brainclaw Enclave are terribly excited to announce an intense new collaboration with an old friend and bandmate:
John Ruszin, guitar virtuoso and head of the Collinwood 13 electro industrial project, has come on board, lending his precise and powerful axe-playing to the new Brainclaw CD, DECEPTOR.
As many Brainclaw fans know, David and John met when Philadelphia industrial rock act Carfax Abbey was created 12 years ago, where they composed a large portion of the music for Carfax’s early and middle years.
The new Brainclaw songs were already moving in a very hard direction, and the addition of John’s guitar tracks on many of the new songs will upgrade the recording with a serious amount of kick-ass.
John has also expressed interest in, and will be joining Brainclaw on tour this summer in support of the new album’s release.
We welcome John’s addition to the team, and look forward to deploying his particular brand of industrial mayhem in our future stage show!
Also stay tuned for super secret snippets of the nearly finished songs from the upcoming Brainclaw release, on LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace and right here at the official Brainclaw Website.
I made a great connect with James Yeager, head of Tactical Response, when I took the “Active Shooter” course in Tennessee a few weeks ago. It seems he has become a Brainclaw music fan! We discovered the song “Strike” from the album Dead Monsters on his latest video from the “Fighting Rifle” class. We’ve supplied him with the rest of our back catalog for future use in his videos for the shooting school.
Tara and I will be returning to Tactical Response to take another class, “Fighting Pistol” very soon. It’s the best training available on the planet. If you carry a firearm for self-defense, you owe it to yourself to get trained. Check out Tactical Response’s class offerings HERE.
• We especially like how the machine gun fire in our music overlaps with the real thing at 02:47-02:55!
The album writing is coming along well, and this release is taking shape as a much harder-edged, angrier recording than either of the previous releases.
There are about 8 completed songs, with various other tunes in multiple stages of completion at this point. Videos for several of the new songs are under construction as well.
You can expect more Brainclaw live shows as the weather cools, so check out the Performance page for those dates in the Fall.
Keep tuned to this channel for updates on this release and other Brainclaw news.
Thanks again to all of you who have been keeping in touch with us during the writing phase and we look forward to seeing many of you soon!
Gary and David spent Sunday creating a darker cover of a Pink Floyd song that was already pretty dark, “Comfortably Numb.”
Brainclaw spent Sunday with Gary Billings, recording a fantastic new song called “So I Surrender.”
Sunday, Feb 15, 2009
Just an interim update on the new Brainclaw album’s progress…
We here at the Brainclaw Enclave are terribly excited to announce an intense new collaboration with an old friend and bandmate:
We here at the Brainclaw Enclave are pleased to present a sneak-peek at a song from the upcoming Brainclaw release.
