Hey Now!
We here at Camp Hospitality have been hard at work on some new tuneage, and we thought we'd give you a glimpse inside Our songwriting process.
Check out the video below, the first stage of the OH song factory assembly line - where Dash records a germ, riff or hook of a song into his cellphone (usually while watching NBA basketball). Does he sing Libby's vocal parts in a silly high register? You betcha.
Many song ideas usually pour out at once, and they're stashed in a folder for a month or so, where they age either like a fine wine or yogurt in the sun. Once there's twenty or thirty of these song "seeds" in the folder, we go back and listen to them, picking Our favorite 10 or 15 to demo out and talking shit about the ones that don't make the cut.
Then, Dash sits down and tracks out the song in demo form, delivering to Libby and Phil a mixtape from which they write their parts, weigh in on arrangement, and decide what they like. Then we get into our practice space and actually jam out the songs, learning what works and what doesn't.
About halfway through the mixtape stage now, so OH should have some new tunes ready for the final and most important songwriting stage: playing them Our shows. Only once a song has been gig-tested can we stamp on that seal off approval and put them to record.
Speaking of new tunes, three of Our favorite bands have new music coming soon:
Garbage - 5/15 - Not Your Kind of People
Sigur Ros - 5/29 - Valtari
Rush - 5/29 - Clockwork Angels
So fear not, young champions, good music is out there. The onus is on you to go out and find it and rock the fuck out to it.
Love,
OH
