Rachel Lee Walsh » Lee Free Frisari

Interview on Seen & Herd Blog

RachelLeeWalsh — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:43:53 +0000

Recently, I did an interview with the blog Seen & Herd, which is a fashion blog by designer Kelly Horrigan Handmade. Kelly designs jewelry pieces for musicians that play on their personality and musical style. The fabulously talented drummer and producer, Lee Free, does the interviews! Check out the fabulous piece on my shoulder that she designed with me in mind, as well as the interview and pix from the photo shoot right here.

Started recording vocals and guitar at BaranStoll Studios

RachelLeeWalsh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:10:33 +0000

I was at BaranStoll studios (aka Two Tomatoes Studio) this past weekend and started to record the vocals and guitar for “Please Come to Brooklyn” and “She’s Not Waiting”. Here’s some pix.

Reached 10% of My Fundraising Goal Today!

RachelLeeWalsh — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:41:40 +0000

Woo-hoo! With your help, I reached my 10% goal today in the efforts to fundraise for the making of my new CD! Thank you to all who have made a donation or pre-order so far! I really must say that literally every penny truly helps. This chunk will already allow me to get through my first few recording sessions to lay down some basic tracks over the next couple of weeks. Thanks Thanks Thanks! For those interested in making a future donation or pre-order, don’t forget to check out the goodie packages available on my “donate/pre-oder the CD” page.

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Recording

RachelLeeWalsh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:58:57 +0000

Ten Ten watches over everything

Leyla listens to our recording from patio

This past couple of weeks, I began recording scratch tracks with Lee, who is working as my producer. We are recording what one might call the rhythm section of my music before we head into the actual studio for recording. This amounts to a rough of the guitar and rhythmic click track to use as a guide to record to. I also began working on some new video footage with my friend Jennifer for my song “Please Come To Brooklyn”. See pix below. There are for sure a few themes emerging in the process of making these recordings and video. Can you guess? Dogs, small and makeshift spaces, portable computers, and no sleep.

Lee setting up session for "She's Not Waiting"

Jen setting up video session for "Please Come To Brooklyn"

Doyle watching over guitar

Testing Testing at Two Tomatoes Studios

RachelLeeWalsh — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:09:12 +0000

I began working with a new engineer last night for my upcoming full-length CD. Her name is Vivian Stohl. Her studio, Two Tomatoes, is located in the East Village of New York City. My dear friend, Lee Frisari, who is going to work as the producer on the recording, recommended Vivian, and I couldn’t have been happier with our mini-session last night. We talked about my overall vision for the CD, including what kind of sound I’m hoping to end up with. I brought her samples of recordings I like, which consisted of some songs by Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, and Amos Lee, who I’ve been listening to a lot of recently. The nicest part of the evening for me was definitely getting to try one song of just me on vocals and guitar as a trial run to see how it feels to work together. We also experimented with a few different mics to see what worked well with my voice and guitar. Wow, what great mics can do! Finally, we talked about dates and agreed that June will be a good time to get started on recording. I’m be spending the next month tweaking my performance and laying down scratch tracks in Lee’s home studio of vocals and guitar along with a click/drum track provided by Lee. Lee and I are looking to use this as a basis to start with that we can take into Vivian’s studio.