Supernatural: The Album
thank you for looking for more album info. In this section of the website, I will attempt to give a deeper meaning to the pics, text, and songs on the album.
The original title was Supernatural because I loved the concept and then it changed to Gifts and Burdens because the songs created pictures of ups and downs. I thought the title summed it up, but then my daughter, Jess, took a photo on a trip to Germany that screamed out Supernatural----------so, there it is.
My first session was June 6, 2006 at Salim Nourallah's Pleasantry Lane Studio in Dallas, Texas. I came in with 17 songs with the thought of recording them all and then seeing what was album worthy. Before all this, I went to Julie and Erick Gosse's house and layed down demos in order to see what I had. Dennis Davidson played electric guitar-----we even created So Much Better nearly on the spot there in Julie's music room. On the album, we substituted Freddie Jone's trumpet for Dennis's haunting line on the demo. At Julie's, I also did a sketch of Sun Rain Love out of the blue. The charm of this ditty never left me and it made its way on the album right under the wire. I left it very sparse and under produced hopefully to balance out some of the bigger songs.
Supernatural(album) was completed on Feb 18, 2008. 15 songs. On this album, I was writing and rewriting lyrics as I was doing vocal takes in the studio. The truth is that this album formed itself as it progressed as apposed to my first album, Big Black Box. I went in with that album nearly finished in my head---
Supernatural began to take on a big sound. Each song seemed to call out for attention. By the end of it, I am hoping that I gave each piece what it needed and not too much.
---Rahim Quazi