Unicorn album status: Started recording vocals.

The last two days super-voice super-person multi-talent Heidi Marie Vestrheim came by the Uncanny lab and we worked on some tracks for the upcoming album. We already did a bloody awesome blues-break track last year, which I have been saving up for the album. Now we're cooking up a few more tracks, with quite the variation, each one pulling in a totally different direction.

We did some writing, improvising and brainstorming yesterday. I provide her with a bunch of beats, she picks whatever fancies her and we take it from there. Heidi Marie is a fantastic person to work with, she's got an immediate musical sense and a mad voice technique to realize it.

So today we did some proper recording, lots of takes and variations and overdubs and I'll start programming, manipulating and structuring the bits over the weekend.

I did some quick sketching and conceptual probing after she left today and one of the tracks is a definite bomb. I love it when this happens, you get this sense of "whoaa, there's something great in there", and when you sit down to figure it out, things just fall into place automatically, everything is obvious.

Can't wait to get back to the lab tomorrow and continue.