Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
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I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.