My family spent this past summer in Penticton, B.C. My son James's friend Ivan came out to stay with us for two weeks. James and Ivan have been jamming and writing music together for most of the past year. Last year, I found a small recording studio in Penticton that I was able to rent by the hour for James and me to play together - he's a drummer. Since Ivan was coming out this year, I suggested that we once again do some jamming. We ended up working on four of their original songs. Ivan plays guitar and sings, so I suggested that I'd sit in on bass.
By the beginning of the second week, the songs were sounding pretty good, so I suggested that we record them in the studio. We were supposed to record a day or two before Ivan was leaving. At the last minute, I found out that we couldn't record at the studio in Penticton, so I called around in the area and somehow managed to find a small studio in West Kelowna that we were able to book instead. We drove up and recorded everything live in about two hours. I had the engineer send me all the files so that I could edit and mix them when I got back to Montreal.
I finally was able to dedicate some time to finishing everything the last week of August. I burnt the songs on a CD and gave it to James as a birthday present. Their band name is Echoic, and this is their first EP.
