Codemaking with Snow Patrol’s Jonny Quinn

Well Codes friends so far we have been working hard on the new codes with the wonderful Isi Clarke at Grange Farm Studio, Emneth and we now have guitars, bass, keys and drums for 9 songs!

We are delighted and so very honoured to have some incredibly gifted and very very special guests collaborating on this new record and Mr. Jonny Quinn from Snow Patrol very kindly joined us at Grange Farm yesterday (09/04/13).

Jonny very kindly put down 2 amazing drum tracks on 2 of the new songs and it was really special making music together again after so many years!

Two weeks ago (29/03/13) I travelled down to London to Stone Corner Studio, my brother Iain Archer’s wonderful studio and we laid down additional drum tracks and Iain very kindly played guitar on one of the new songs.

Next we will be focusing on trumpet and then vocals. After this it will be time for some code mixing and mastering!

We are so very excited about this new record and we are also delighted that our last album “Lightfinder” receives it’s digital/online release on 14/05/13 and plans are afoot for something special to mark the occasion so please do watch this space!

Yours as ever in the code, empathy and thanks….Paul and all the Codemakers

Guitars for Lightfinder at Grange Farm Studio

Dan Donovan very kindly took some great shots last week when Burning Codes were over recording guitars at Grange Farm Studio in preparation for the release of Lightfinder on Oilbug Records. All photographs copyright Dan Donovan.

In Search of the Hope and the Lightning

Life is incredible, life is tough, life is for learning, life is experience, life is being, life is for living, life is challenging, life, life is a profound journey and  surely always so much more than we think it is or appreciate it to be.
We can so often know we are truly alive in the times of awe of beauty, but also in times of profound challenge, we can discover new things about ourselves we never knew, we never realised and we can discover the power, the beauty and the strength of Hope. It can be like a light, like an inextinguishable beacon if we will it, if we see it, if we embrace it, if we get to hold it, to know it, to own it.
So can come the personal lightning, the igniting, the will, the thought, the intention, commitment, the shining bolt in our minds, in our hearts.
My solo collaborative project Burning Codes are now embarking on a whole new set of adventures further into our ever evolving, ever fluid, ever changing codemaking with new dynamics, new directions and new feeling and expression.
Work began on the new record last week around 4th March with a new record of 10 songs and a whole new set of collaborations which we shall fill you all in on in the near future…
Watch this space friends, yours as ever in the code…
Paul

Burning Codes at Grange Farm Studio