Pre-Release: “In We Dive” – Shelly Brown 2024 – January 1.
I thought I’d be more rock and roll than this.
I don’t really even know what that means.
I sat exactly right here and wrote and recorded these songs. I sent them to Grant Gerathy and he lay drums on them like the laid back ‘aint nothing left to do’ dude he is.
Then I follow my husband, Dan Brown, day and night till he records his tracks on – keys and bass, make your signature made,
and then I layer more and more vocals till my heart feels right.
Then it begins.
I wonder if it’s a thing. Is it good? Is it bad?
Am I qualified to believe.
And I take a breath and I wait till the waves recede and then I think, bugger it, are you gonna be alive or dead? And I call James Boundy and I wait for a break in the schedule of busy amazing af people.
And we edit. and mix and edit and mix. Fuelled and powered, driving over mountains and through rain and share stories and listen and open our hears and hear all that can be heard.
I need to be alone, and not left alone. I need a community of belief and dead silence to listen to my art.
I need to go to gigs and play gigs and drive this brain.
I need to coach and teach and share knowledge and write and inspire and believe and leave old habits behind, whilst also staying as strong and I can be.
I’ll tell you what really helps – Listening to The Metrologist over and over and over, Liz Stringer, singing her guts out, makes my upper lip sweat with courage and hope.
And High Pony Tails, really make you feel like you’re achieving.
And single loud claps every now and then.
And a standing desk that you know winds up if you can be bothered.
And then we master.
We head to Michael Worthington’s space ship in Ballina, and we hold our breaths, still as can be, and listen with everything and nothing. and just let sounds waves fly.
Space and time.
And now I’m here, debating the woes and moes, the pros and cons, the ways to send it out, the pro-order, share my picture, here it is. This is what we made.
I’m rock and roll now.
Eating salty chips, a pony tail as high as it goes,
I’m listening to The Metrologist in between every song as I listen and upload my tracks to Bandcamp. (Actually thats a lie, this is the third time).
Band Camp – My chosen method of deliverance. https://shellybrown.bandcamp.com/
Have I said it enough?
https://shellybrown.bandcamp.com/
This EP is called In We Dive – Produced and written by Shelly Brown. With massive amounts of help from the people listed below.
Not Spotify yet, not Tidal or any others. No bold links for them yet. I don’t know any single person who should give away their things into the void.
Not yet. I will. I know I will. But not yet. Consumers built that thing. Not artists.
Thanks for listening.
THANK YOU TO:
Mastered by – Michael Worthington
Mixed and Edited by – James Boundy @Boundysound
Mixed at @nowavestudios Mullumbimby & @raegunproductions Suffolk Park
Recorded by – Shelly Brown (Lennox head) and James Boundy (Byron Bay)
Recorded at – Twig and Fig on the Hill in Lennox Head, NSW.
Drums recorded at Bombora Studio by Grant Gerathy @zildjianaustralia @zildjiansticks @ludwig_drums_australia @remopercussion @solomonmics @cymbal.resonance.system
Guitars recorded at:
Karl Farren – Mullumbimby
In We Dive
Vocals, Electric Guitar – Shelly Brown
Electric Guitar – Karl Farren
Keys and Bass – Dan Brown
Drums and percussion – Grant Gerathy
This Time
Vocals, Rhodes – Shelly Brown
Keys and Bass – Dan Brown
Drums and percussion – Grant Gerathy
Glue
Vocals, Baritone Ukulele – Shelly Brown
Keys and Bass – Dan Brown
Drums and percussion – Grant Gerathy
Someone Else’s Life
Vocals, Electric Guitar – Shelly Brown
Keys and Bass – Dan Brown
Drums and percussion – Grant Gerathy
Jenny Wren
Vocals, Baritone Ukulele – Shelly Brown
Keys and Bass – Dan Brown
Drums, melotron & percussion – Grant Gerathy
https://shellybrown.bandcamp.com/
This project was recorded on Bundjalung Country
Always was and Always will be.