Some Video of Living Waters Recording!

Some Video of Living Waters Recording!

This summer's recording has included some Mike & Mark singing together on many songs; The results, I think, were fantastic! Our blend seemed just right, and our back and forth on "Let It Reign" was so much fun. Mike has contributed his keyboard skills to several Mark songs, like "Sing to Jesus" which we played together so much back in the day.

We're not really good on putting what we're doing on the record. I think we're just too busy doing the work, in the zone, shall we say. BUT! I managed to video a few snippets of us doing some more work on "Light of the World" which we could share with you. Ready?

Here is our vocal recording spot; we were doing the melody for "LotW" chorus

Mike was warming up to do the intro to "LotW"

Mike had to fix the tag on Josh's shirt!

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Video of Mike practicing the end of "LotW". 

At the end, Josh is circling his finger, telling Mike to keep going, because he has the section on a loop. Josh can then take or blend the best sections from the looped tracks.

Well! I hoped you enjoyed this small glimpse inside the process. Sausage being made....

Peace & Love & JOY,

Mark LaJOIE! of Living Waters

New Studio Production: "Sing to Jesus"!

New Studio Production:"Sing to Jesus"!

"Sing to Jesus" Studio Production 

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Josh at work mixing today, August 14

Behold! Here is another Living Waters production from our efforts this summer at the Loell recording studio: "Sing to Jesus". I am absolutely floored by the results; just LISTEN to this thing, will you? It is amazing!

Mike laying down a track today for Light of the World

Our Singing Spot in the Loell Studio

We must have performed this hundreds of times in our earliest days, and I believe it is our first original full group song. I (Mark) resurrected it with a demo done on GarageBand, & work commenced on it in earnest these past couple of weeks. I did the lead vocal last week, mostly in one take; I guess we should kind of know this one by now, right? Mike said Josh was giving furious thumbs up during the entire take; it sure felt right. By the way, singing with Mike just seemed to give us both tremendous energy to our efforts. (Dave & Denise also sang on "Light of the World" [wait till you hear that!], and Denise is on "When Sunday Comes" as well.)

Mark playing a part for Anna Post Writing today

One amazing thing about this is Greg's work on lead guitar. We had finished vocals and he just showed up in the cellar after work, sat down on a chair and dropped down this thunder on us. We were all just sitting there with our mouth open. That lead at the end? He just sat down and poured it out, one take, like we did in concert so many times. It is Clapton-like and preaches the exultant mood of the song better than words. It was a key missing element from the demo and makes our final product feel more complete. [This reminds me of the time we were recording "Fight For Me" and I was having trouble with my 12-string acoustic part during the bridge for some reason. Well! Greg grabbed my 12-string, jumped up on a folding table, told them to roll tape and just ripped off what you hear now. How does he do it? Amazing.]

You may notice I changed the words that I sing to that rejoicing final section. (Josh had this idea, that I change those words based on the flow of the album.) Some of what I sing here is based on the "overflow" words of our song, "City of Joy", with some alterations. Here is what I sang:

Alleluia!

You are the Place to go

Where joy will overflow

There is a Place for us to go

Our faith will lead us where

Our God will really care

One Cup and Bread to share!

One Cup and Bread to share!
----where Joy will overflow....

At one point, Tony played drums on "Light of the World"; wait for that!

This thematically ties the bow on our "Overflow" album as a whole. Jesus IS the place for us poor sinners to go where joy will overflow, especially in His Person, in the Bread & Cup that unite us as One Body.

That's Mark playing 12-string, Mike on keyboards, Greg on electric and Mike and I doing the gang-clapping and vocals. One step closer to a real, full studio album...SOON!

Now that is something to sing about! Hope you enjoy this. We sure do!

"Sing to Jesus" Studio Production 

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Peace & Love & JOY,

Mark LaJOIE!