Recording in a teak warehouse, with bats
On building a vocal booth out of monk-robe fabric and what the river does to reverb tails.
The warehouse sits at the edge of Taunggyi, past the last petrol station. We found it through Ko Pai's uncle, who used to store timber there before the road changed.
We hung monk-robe fabric from the rafters — amber, rough, thick. The bats stayed in the far corner and never bothered us until we started tracking the quiet parts. Then they'd wake up.
The river is two kilometres away but on still nights it changes everything. The reverb tail on the acoustic guitar had this impossible softness at 2am that we've never been able to reproduce in a proper room.
We recorded most of Achain Randara Khayee The in four nights. The last night we worked until the bats left for dawn.
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