SECRET BEACH
NEWS CAPSULE
www.secret-beach.com

September 2001
Volume 1 - Issue 1

Eric Roth, Editor
eric@secret-beach.com

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Before summer, I began preproduction for a new CD. I imagine that completing this entire project will take some time. Among other things, this process involved taking stock of all of the old recordings I have done over the years: boxes of cassette tapes, digital tapes, and open reels. They will be used as a basis, to form a rough sketch of the CD.

I decided to bring them into a studio where they could be digitally remixed, cleaned up, and archived on CD. The quality of these recordings varies greatly. I would consider releasing only a few of them "as is." The others are equally important, serving as demos, explorations of musical themes, and song- writer's notes.

One group of recordings contain neither music nor lyric...

A couple of summers ago, I took a Sony portable digital tape recorder and a Neumann shotgun stereo microphone into the wild blue yonder to record some ambiance. FYI, the value of this professional gear easily runs over eight grand. Carefully, I set the microphone just a few feet away from the waves to capture every drop of detail. In the end, the equipment survived without ever tasting any seaweed and the sessions yielded excellent results.

These "sounds of the Secret Beach" include the waves during various times of the day, psychedelic cicadas living in the ravines and trees, some calm suburban crickets that will make you rest easy, and a wild symphony of unidentified deep-wood bugs that are sure to prick your ears. I can't wait to find out how you like it. These sessions add up to about two hours worth of ambiance. You will hear portions weaved into songs on the upcoming CD.

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