Mushroom!
08.21.11So last Tuesday August 16th, we ventured back onto the studio for the second day of recording! It was a blooming glorious day, the sun was out, the cupcakes were made and ready to be devoured, everyone was in a chipper mood and my friend and awesome photographer Victoria Canning finally received her working visa… It was an all round rippa of a start to a wonderful day!
The session was at Mushroom studios (now called Hipposonic) in Vancouver and we arrived at 10am, bright eyed and bushy tailed! After setting everything up, Kenton Loewen (The Crackling, Dan Mangan, Gord Grdina Trio) showed up and we started setting up his 1959 Ludwig kit, newly purchased and never played or recorded yet by Kenton himself. Stoked on the sound of such a fine kit, we ripped into the songs. We were recording the ever talented Ben Appenheimer on double bass at the same time in an adjoining room and it was all coming together nicely. Such a weird thing to hear my songs come to life and be layered with all the sounds that I’ve been hearing in my head for so long! After 6-7 long but awesome hours of recording, we finally got all the drums and most of the bass laid down. TICK! 
Then came Olivier Claments, horn master extraordinaire… What a talented little creature this guy is! he laid down all the trumpet and flugal horn parts… Creating a flugal choir in two songs! Woop!
Then after a short break came…… Whiskey and beer! Haha. At about 10pm, Ben, Matt Kelly and I started setting up for a live recording of an A.A.Bondy song called ‘O The Vampire’ which was also filmed by the awesome Joe Schweers from Amazing Factory. I was verging on tipsy at this point as the Apply Jacks and such a long day in the studio was starting to get to my head… But we played wonderfully and with Ben and Matts sweet ass playing and harmonies, we created something pretty special. I can’t wait to show you all!!
THEN, at about 11pm, about 15 of my close friends here in Vancouver all came out to the Studio to help out with some gang vocals. It was so great and the recording of them have come out so beautifully. A great chance to involve the people that some of the songs are written about, and a great excuse to get everyone in one room for a surprize midnight happy birthday and cake time for producer Paul Boechler! Sneaky but super fun. By this time I was completely exhausted, and lets face it, a little drunk, and by 1.30am, we started packing everything up. WOW! What a day! I was feeling the repercussions for days after.. It was quite honestly one of the most exhausting but rewarding and most fantastic days of my life. I will never forget it. Paul is currently in the process of putting together rough mixes of the songs that were recorded during the session, to get ready for the next session to take place in very early October! Stay tuned for photos of the Mushroom session by Victoria Canning soon. Till next time!
The ever talented photographer, Victoria Canning.
08.3.11Victoria Canning is a British photographer, now living in Vancouver. I met her last year when I was in Canada and fell in love with her photos. She is quite wonderful as a photographer and as a person and we are lucky enough to have her document the whole recording process for the new album! Check our her site at http://www.victoryphotography.blogspot.com/ to see some great photos she took at Tall Poppies Studios the other week!
And so it begins…
07.29.11Recording is well underway for Ma Petite’s debut album ‘The Road That Led Me To Fall’, to be released early 2012!! We are working with Producer/Engineer Paul Boechler and have already had two days recording out at a studio in North Vancouver called Tall Poppies Studios. It was a very successful two days, crossing off a whopping 15 boxes our progress chart!! It was much more than we had expected and it left us not only feeling very satisfied with the work we had accomplished, but also with a feeling of excitement and anticipation for or sessions to come. It is such a strange process to record basic tracking of guitar and ukulele and vocals before anything else has been added, especially after dreaming up all the wicked instrumentations and sounds that will be layered on top! But, inspired by all that is to come in the recording, we created some really nice basic tracking, ready for out next day of recording. Sooooooo… August 16th will see us head to Mushroom studios in Vancouver. Renowned for the reverb chambers that were created back in the 70′s, we are totally stoked to get in there to track drums and double bass and horns and some vocals and a mob of people singing some really fun stuff!! Very very excited!
Photo by Victoria Canning http://www.victoryphotography.blogspot.com/
Hello world!
07.7.11Oh heeeeeelloooooo world! This is the very first Ma Petite post on our brand new website!! Thanks to the ever talented Matt Kelly (aka the sweet ass musician that plays all the instruments in all the world in MaPetite…) and Angela Rabideau (the most loveliest and talentedest of graphic designers) for setting it up!! Woop!