Instrumental Invasion, 6/14/23 June 15, 2023

The June 14 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded entirely on April 17, along with pickups. An additional pickup was recorded the next day. This makes for the sixth show in the last seven where talk breaks were principally recorded in one day, and fourth in five shows/fifth in seven shows recorded and mixed in one day.

Kudos to Adobe Audition‘s denoise filter. It perfectly removed the sound of my auxiliary location’s central air conditioner indoor unit which ran nonstop throughout my session. (It wasn’t cooling properly at the time, and was fixed the next day.)

The show playlist was created March 28 with a Keiko Matsui song swapped in on April 1. Annotations were written from April 3 to 7, and the talk break script was drafted April 15 and 16.

“Dave G.” by David Benoit was first played on May 27, 2020, and “Reverse” by Marcus Anderson recurred from July 13, 2022, 11 months ago yesterday.

Allow me to quote my talk break script for the many instruments on “Midnight Picnic” by EKO (John O’Connor):

[John] wrote the description and the composition itself, playing acoustic guitars, electric guitars, mandolin, bouzouki (boo-zooki), and charango.
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Bob Loveday was on violin and recorders, Paul Ellis on keyboards and programming, Steafan (“Stee-fahn”) Hannigan played uilleann (“illin'”) pipes (stop illin’), Alec Dankworth on acoustic bass that was mixed in a way that sounded like synth bass, Neal Wilkinson on drums, and Geraint (“Grynt”) Watkins on accordion.

I learned the backstory of “Silent Storm” by Ken Navarro through a preview podcast he posted on April 5. The extra pickup was to redo a line that originally started with “and you can’t disturb the neighbors, right, Ken?” I thought that was obnoxious. Since recording, “Silent Storm” became the latest single off Love is Everywhere, and Ken went into the making and mixing of the song in another podcast episode.

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Multi-instrumentalist!