In Part 3 of this series, Dehlia Low’s Anya Hinkle talks about the final weekend of recording “Tellico“, her reactions on hearing the rough mixes for the first time, the photo shoot and packaging as well as paying your hero more than just respect.

Dehlia Low’s final recording weekend, Feb 20-22

It is interesting how in recording this material, it’s kind of a process of letting go and moving on from these songs. Although the listener might feel that this material is brand new, for me, the process of “officially” recording each song, very possibly the only time it will ever be recorded, is kind of like saying goodbye.

We’ve been performing and practicing these tunes for many months and to think that they will be crystallized, frozen, in this one performance, a single interpretation of something that is actually continually evolving, something that is somewhat different every time, is vaguely dispiriting. Now that they are recorded, they are “done.”

Time for new songs, new things to write and learn and share and work out. So it’s a sentimental process, and also a daunting process of looking to the future and hoping you can continue to create more material like this.

Today, we got an unmixed copy of the disk, minus a few parts we’ll be plugging in during this final recording weekend,. I drove to the next town over to eat dinner just to have the chance to listen to it in the car….