While there were some writing sessions in New York last April, most of the songs truly took their form on the road, as David and his band (David, Kevin Young, Steve Zsirai, Chris Taylor-Munro, myself) toured the Strange Birds record across Canada twice in 2007. Each city would offer a new chance to tweak and perfect arrangements, and it made sense to record the tracks with the “live band” feel.

In a two-day session at Base Bin rehearsal studios, we record the basic tracks for the record. From there, we went to Fred St-Gelais’ studio, and had Chris re-record all the drum tracks, as he played along with the band on tape from the Base Bin sessions.

We then set up shop in an apartment in Montréal that David and his family was staying in after recently moving from the East Village, New York. Here, we re-recorded all the bass, guitars and keyboards, as well as the lead and backing vocals. It was an amazingly efficient process.

The entire album was recorded on my MacBook Pro using Apple’s Logic Pro 8 and a MOTU 828mkII firewire audio interface.

Once we were satisfied we had all the right elements in place, we took the tracks back to Fred’s studio, where he mixed and mastered the album.

You can hear the first single, Kill The Lights, on David’s MySpace page right now, or buy it digitally via iTunes.

Roger’s vocal abilities are amazing. He had me come down to Homework Studios, where I laid down acoustic guitar tracks on two of his new songs. I’ll fill you in with more details as the project progresses. This album will co-incide with a new Food Television show called “Everyday Exotic”, which Roger will be hosting in the fall.