Purchase songs from Montgomricon Fantasico.
Montgomricon Fantasico is a singer/songwriter project I began in the Fall of 2004. The project is still in the works, and it's progressing quite nicely.
Butterflies In Heaven was the song that really got this project rolling. I wrote the song after losing a friend in the summer of 2004. Then came the quirky song Richard Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. Then old songs from my past were revisited, revived, and revised. Everything was sounding good to me. It was time to record.
In February 2005 I enter Tasty Jam Studios in Media, PA and began working with the enigmatic engineer Jeremy Pflug.
My goal when entering the studio was to capture a "live" sound - a "warts and all" approach as John Lennon might have said. In short, I just wanted to open up the mic and play and see what happened. Jeremy understood my goal. On some occasions I wasn't sure how to approach a percussion part or wasn't sure how a vocal idea might sound. So I followed Jeremy's words of wisdom: "Just go for it."
Also, there is very little studio trickery going on in Montgomricon Fantasico. I don't want that. If I have the term right, the mics were mostly dry. The vocal tracks are what they are. I didn't run them through an auto-tuner. We didn't use lots of effects on the guitars, or the other instruments. There were a few spots where I forgot to double a vocal track and we had to use a vocal spot from a different area of the song, but that's about it. I may even revisit those spots and do them again. I like the purity of this project, and plan to keep going in this direction.
I hope to finish Montgomricon Fantasico in early 2008.
The Songs so far:
- America Rocks
- Richard Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
- Butterflies In Heaven
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