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Finally this CD dropped! Carry Me by Sasha Tkacheff (sashasviolin)


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Here's a taste -

This was a really remarkable album to record. It celebrates the artist's survival through (and recovery/remission from) stage 4 cancer.

By way of background -
Sasha called me this spring and said, essentially, "you know, cheating death helps you get your priorities straight. I want to record a CD of songs like we did on Motherless Child (a "throwaway" tune we recorded when we had 30 "spare" minutes in a recording session back in 2014 - the old spiritual, recorded live, no overdubs, came out so well I included it on the album I was recording at that time) - live, a set of musical conversations in the moment, not overrehearsed, not overdubbed, just ... alive." I knew a drummer and a guitarist who I thought would be right for the project, by which I mean that they were a) great players; b) great listeners who had the gift of responding to and playing off of the dynamics of what was happening in the moment (rather than "hey, that's not (or is) how the arrangement is supposed to go"); and c) great human beings. We set a date to record - 2 weekend days (very ambitious these days to record a CD in 2 days...). Ben drove down from Mt. Shasta where he lives now, Sasha drove in from Sacramento. We met at my house Friday night for dinner, the first time any of the three of them met. We jammed for about an hour on my deck (the parrots LOVED having a band playing music here). Saturday and Sunday we went into the studio and recorded 11 tracks, all live, no overdubs (well, one exception - one tune was just violin, and Sasha played a duet with herself). 10 of them were album-worthy.

It was an amazing experience of being present in the moment, listening and responding and being in and of the music. All of us were blown away. The engineer (who is very set in the "modern" way of doing things) was beyond blown away. He went from "are you SURE you don't want a click track? Because without a click we can't really overdub or edit or splice..." "No, Oz, the point is we don't WANT to overdub or edit or splice. We don't want a click so we can speed up or slow down as the music and vibe dictates, not lock to a click." to "OMG, this is amazing."
As I said, we were all blown away by the experience. Exhausted and ecstatic by the end of each day, none of us could remember the names of the tunes we had played, or even how many. (Think Clint Eastwood - "see, in all this excitement I can't remember if I played 5 tunes or 6...do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?!")

I feel really happy with the finished CD, and honored to have been part of it.
 
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kesslari said:
Finally this CD dropped! Carry Me by Sasha Tkacheff (sashasviolin)


View attachment 4481866

Here's a taste -

This was a really remarkable album to record. It celebrates the artist's survival through (and recovery/remission from) stage 4 cancer.

By way of background -
Sasha called me this spring and said, essentially, "you know, cheating death helps you get your priorities straight. I want to record a CD of songs like we did on Motherless Child (a "throwaway" tune we recorded when we had 30 "spare" minutes in a recording session back in 2014 - the old spiritual, recorded live, no overdubs, came out so well I included it on the album I was recording at that time) - live, a set of musical conversations in the moment, not overrehearsed, not overdubbed, just ... alive." I knew a drummer and a guitarist who I thought would be right for the project, by which I mean that they were a) great players; b) great listeners who had the gift of responding to and playing off of the dynamics of what was happening in the moment (rather than "hey, that's not (or is) how the arrangement is supposed to go"); and c) great human beings. We set a date to record - 2 weekend days (very ambitious these days to record a CD in 2 days...). Ben drove down from Mt. Shasta where he lives now, Sasha drove in from Sacramento. We met at my house Friday night for dinner, the first time any of the three of them met. We jammed for about an hour on my deck (the parrots LOVED having a band playing music here). Saturday and Sunday we went into the studio and recorded 11 tracks, all live, no overdubs (well, one exception - one tune was just violin, and Sasha played a duet with herself). 10 of them were album-worthy.

It was an amazing experience of being present in the moment, listening and responding and being in and of the music. All of us were blown away. The engineer (who is very set in the "modern" way of doing things) was beyond blown away. He went from "are you SURE you don't want a click track? Because without a click we can't really overdub or edit or splice..." "No, Oz, the point is we don't WANT to overdub or edit or splice. We don't want a click so we can speed up or slow down as the music and vibe dictates, not lock to a click." to "OMG, this is amazing."
As I said, we were all blown away by the experience. Exhausted and ecstatic by the end of each day, none of us could remember the names of the tunes we had played, or even how many. (Think Clint Eastwood - "see, in all this excitement I can't remember if I played 5 tunes or 6...do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?!")

I feel really happy with the finished CD, and honored to have been part of it.
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Remarkable story! Thank you for sharing. It's been added to the playlist.
 
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kesslari said:
Finally this CD dropped! Carry Me by Sasha Tkacheff (sashasviolin)


View attachment 4481866

Here's a taste -

This was a really remarkable album to record. It celebrates the artist's survival through (and recovery/remission from) stage 4 cancer.

By way of background -
Sasha called me this spring and said, essentially, "you know, cheating death helps you get your priorities straight. I want to record a CD of songs like we did on Motherless Child (a "throwaway" tune we recorded when we had 30 "spare" minutes in a recording session back in 2014 - the old spiritual, recorded live, no overdubs, came out so well I included it on the album I was recording at that time) - live, a set of musical conversations in the moment, not overrehearsed, not overdubbed, just ... alive." I knew a drummer and a guitarist who I thought would be right for the project, by which I mean that they were a) great players; b) great listeners who had the gift of responding to and playing off of the dynamics of what was happening in the moment (rather than "hey, that's not (or is) how the arrangement is supposed to go"); and c) great human beings. We set a date to record - 2 weekend days (very ambitious these days to record a CD in 2 days...). Ben drove down from Mt. Shasta where he lives now, Sasha drove in from Sacramento. We met at my house Friday night for dinner, the first time any of the three of them met. We jammed for about an hour on my deck (the parrots LOVED having a band playing music here). Saturday and Sunday we went into the studio and recorded 11 tracks, all live, no overdubs (well, one exception - one tune was just violin, and Sasha played a duet with herself). 10 of them were album-worthy.

It was an amazing experience of being present in the moment, listening and responding and being in and of the music. All of us were blown away. The engineer (who is very set in the "modern" way of doing things) was beyond blown away. He went from "are you SURE you don't want a click track? Because without a click we can't really overdub or edit or splice..." "No, Oz, the point is we don't WANT to overdub or edit or splice. We don't want a click so we can speed up or slow down as the music and vibe dictates, not lock to a click." to "OMG, this is amazing."
As I said, we were all blown away by the experience. Exhausted and ecstatic by the end of each day, none of us could remember the names of the tunes we had played, or even how many. (Think Clint Eastwood - "see, in all this excitement I can't remember if I played 5 tunes or 6...do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?!")

I feel really happy with the finished CD, and honored to have been part of it.
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Great stuff!
 
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