Isobelle Gunn's Blog

So, here we are in GORGEOUS British Columbia…we just arrived at the studio here in Surrey a couple of hours ago…

Ach, it does my soul good to be on the West Coast again. And that’s for many reasons, not just because here the sun is shining sweetly (rather than attempting to incinerate humanity) and the air is balmy with a hint of the sea (as opposed to suffocating with a touch of murderous intent) and the temperature is hovering gently around 24 degrees (instead of torquing to 45 degrees before many of you ventured to your breakfast tables.)

The other main reasons for my pleasure are (a) nostalgia (having lived in Victoria for a couple of years) and (b) the Pacific Ocean.

But I digress…The point of all this is to let y’all know that Isobelle Gunn has arrived safely at their destination!  Here we are at White Water Productions, working in studio with Producer Roy Salmond.

Roy was gracious enough to fly to Ontario in order to work on pre-production with us in London this past week. (This is because Jer and I could not bear to leave our 2 1/2 year old Isaiah for longer than a week and a half. Which is already pushing it, I’m telling you!)

So Roy has been living at our house on Brighton Street since last Sunday…special thanks to Mom and Dad Zeyl for putting us up (and for putting up with us) AND for watching Isaiah during the day while the four of us (Roy, Leanna, Jer and I) worked on pre-pro in our living room.

Pre-production involved us singing our songs to Roy and then waiting for his invariably incomparable critique, advice, questions, tangents, suggestions, additions, enhancements, etc.  We were able to work on 13 songs in the three days and we had a blast doing it! 

Roy has a wonderfully pithy way with words. It was he who shared with us the quote used as the title for this post, which is Tom Wait’s description of the essence of song-writing.  And it was Roy himself who reflected on what we do as Isobelle Gunn and invited us to “touch and yank at some hearts with good truth.”

Now how’s that for getting who we are and what we love to do with our music?

We are in good hands with Roy and are thrilled that we find ourselves again poised to record another album of songs about which we are so passionate…I am perhaps especially giddy at the prospect of embracing the entire recording process rather than kind of, well, enduring it, as I did last time, being 9 1/2 months pregnant and unable to locate my lungs.

Thanks so much again to all of you who have already supported this project and enabled us (in the healthiest sense of that word!) to, quite literally, be where we are today!!

I’ll sign off for now as the whole getting up at 4:30 am to catch our 7:00 am flight is catching up with me and in my fatigue-induced-state I don’t wish to start offending anyone…

yet.

Take care for now, all…I’ll be in touch again soon!

Lara