Music
Soundtrack Recording
We went into the studio last week and recorded some songs for the soundtrack. We are humbled that Pokey LaFarge, Mat Wilson were willing to write original songs for our film. Irene Allen was also good enough to contribute one of her originals as well and we all convened on Jupiter Studios to record them last week. We recorded demos of these songs last spring, one of which “Brick By Brick” written by Mat Wilson and performed by him and Pokey can be heard in our Trailer. I gotta say … that it sounds much better with a full band, which is not to say that it sounded bad before. Special thanks to Doug Storm at Jupiter for doing a great job as engineer on this project.
But since we won’t be finishing the film by this month like we said we would, I thought I would throw something out for you to enjoy. Here is the rough mix of the Pokey LaFarge song “Brick Thieves” performed with his band The South City Three and written especially for this film. Enjoy! Brick Thieves, By Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three (click to download)
Here are some photos from the recording session:
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- Mat Wilson getting ready to track
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- Rehearsing
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- Pokey and Mat rehearsing
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- Pokey listens back to some tracks
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- Rehearsing before the session begins
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- Ryan “Churchmouse” Koenig sequestered in the booth
About Brick By Chance and Fortune
St. Louis is a city with a rich heritage of brick architecture. Home to some of the largest and most innovative clay working companies of the nineteenth century, you can still see some of the finest examples of brick work ever produced all over the city and region. Today the city's brick heritage is under threat by neglect, brick theft and urban renewal.
