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The Pool Art Project - Chasing You (acoustic)

My very first experience recording an acoustic song was this one, done & completed in the month of October 2012. Epul spontaneously decided to record this with me while we were awaiting the completion of the song Sunblock
which i had already finished recording the drum track for. Yeah, for those who don't know, to produce a proper song, each instrument has to be recorded separately, including the vocals. In late September 2012 as we were looking for a recording studio to start the project, i googled and came across these two studios ; IZ Studio in Wangsa Maju and BOM Productions in Desa Melawati. Ironically enough the first studio provides track-by-track recording for all instruments except drums. And the second studio, which specializes in vocal recording and dance classes, only allows drum track recording at the time due to lack of instruments/equipments. So i had my first recording experience doing the drum track there, which was where we also did the song Chasing You using our own guitars (BOM Productions allowed this because we brought our own guitars, and they provided the recording equipments).

This song was in fact written by Epul way back in 1999 when we were schoolkids jamming for fun. I admit it, Epul sure has talent in writing songs, and he has a bunch of them. Some he remembers but unfortunately most of them he forgot. So at BOM Productions, we recorded his rhythm guitar first, using his own acoustic guitar. Followed by my classical guitar doing the accompaniment and solo for the song. Just as i expected, the combination of these two different guitar types produce this beautiful fusion of semi-acoustic sound. Then Epul did the finishing touch on the vocals. We spent hours in the studio but it only took about 2 hours of recording time (one hour each) to complete the song. Not to brag or anything but that was quick..considering we went to the studio spontaneously without any practice whatsoever. We were in the zone and we did it successfully. That, being our first song to ever be recorded completely in the history of our entire music-driven lives, became a marking point for me. We both felt this extreme sense of fulfillment. The excitement. We felt so proud of ourselves to finally pull this off (we had always wanted to record a demo since we were kids) that we actually celebrated. For me, the moment was so majestic that it felt rather...euphoric! Well, i guess there's a first time for everything. And this one got me addicted to making more.

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