Mandark
I Miss You When I’m Drunk (feat. Julian Moreen)
It all started with Mandark sending me a demo of her song “I miss you when I’m Drunk”. It was a vibey, catchy sound with some beautiful vocal stacks she produced herself in Logic. I took her Ideas further, wrote the math-rock-inspired instrumental Post-Chorus and came up with this fun shuffle bass line over the 3/4 meter of her song and wrote the big ending section. I programmed everything and send her the rough idea. She liked it!
Next up, we hired my favorite drummer in Taiwan, Fish Huang, to replace my crappy midi drums and bring the energy this song needs. I really liked the drum sound, the engineer captured our ideas really well!
Afterwards, we recorded Mandark’s vocals in a late-night session, she’s a real professional when sitting on the big cushion on the floor! I also added some falsetto vocals for the ending.
Finally, We asked guitarist Andrew Cheng to record many layers of guitar: Tapping guitar for a special layer of the instrumental section, slide guitar for the ending, moving pads for the verse… I recorded my ideas for him just singing what I hear and he understood the assignment masterfully.
While in Germany, I cut everything together, even in my favorite working space, the high speed rail restaurant and we sent it out for mix and mastering. A fun project and we got to perform the song live at her album release in a great production in Taichung and Taipei - thanks Mandark!