Late Nights And Early Mornings
"At the time I recorded the EP, says MiGGs frontman, Don Miggs, I didn't know it, but my life was falling apart, some of the guys in the band could not continue to tour, my marriage was crumbling, and there I was making this intimate recording of my own break up album before I knew the major relationships in my life were breaking up." All of the songs on the EP are raw acoustic, yet some filled with edge and angst. "While intimate, the first run through of what we thought were the final recordings sounded "sonically lifeless" by today's over-the-top 'Had a Bad Day' Daniel Powter and James Blunt standard recordings selling millions," says Miggs. So what to do? Well, on the shelf it went for some rest. Months passed trying to find that perfect balance between marketability and preserving the rawness of the recordings during a tug of war between Artist, Manager and Producer. Late Nights was produced by Chris Manning (Santana, Jellyfish, Third Eye Blind) and mixed by Producer/Composer John Carta (Hanna Montana, Grey's Anatomy, The Bachelor).
Late Nights And Early
Mornings "As a producer, amongst other things, I see myself as a
"sonic midwife" helping birth the music. And then the baby is delivered
and EP is done, but then some wanted to fix it up, dress it up, maybe even
put lipstick on the baby, and its not the same," says producer Chris
Manning. Ironically and in stark contrast to MiGGs hit single "Perfect"
from "InsOmnia," one of the songs featured on the new EP called "Don't Fix
Me," is a blatant lyrical antithesis of Coldplay's song "Fix You." "Don't
Fix Me" is also little slap in the face to the social mentality that "we
all need to search for that magic bullet to quickly fix someone or
something when sometimes its ok to be broken or flawed, says Kathleen
Carpenter, MiGG's manager who co-wrote the lyrics to "Don't Fix Me."
To add a little more fuel to the debate about
whether the artistic trend towards delivering only super bright and
polished recordings will fade, MiGGs plans to let the fans decide, as it
will soon digitally release the "Producer's Cuts" version of "Late Nights
and Early Mornings," which sound more private, more personal. "While I
understood the need to make the EP more commercially competitive, I did
not want to miss delivering what we actually recorded. We knew going into
this that this was NOT going to be a big sounding release," opines Miggs.
"We didn't use electric guitars or drumsticks, and I did many vocals in
one take, while also playing the guitar. Most of all, I wanted intimate.
I wanted to hear the process deliver the quiet desperation." "While I
believe that the final recordings released on the new EP captured that
balance, they ended "slightly prettied up," says Miggs. "My favorite
artists all made 'messy' records and those are the ones I use as a
reference when it's all getting too nice, which we've been guilty of
ourselves. I can't be the only artist who feels this way." "So I guess we
will get a chance to hear what the some of MiGG's 32,000 plus fans on
MySpace have to say after hearing how the different versions sit with
them."
MiGGs has also penned a deal with Digital Musicworks
International Inc. (DMGI), the world's first all-digital full service
music label to release the EP. DMGI also released, the band's second
album, "InsOmnia," produced by the legendary Gavin MacKillop (Barenaked
Ladies, Sugarcult MXPX) and John Convertino (Madonna, Goo Goo Dolls Live).
"InsOmnia" was touted by reviewers as a "feast of intimate, honest lyrics,
unforgettable solo and harmony vocals." And MiGG's Acoustic EP "Late
Nights and Early Mornings" seeks to deliver a feast of intimate,
unforgettable songs that could have been more 'perfect,' but may be even a
more raw and satisfying feast.
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