In Moments Like These was a last-minute swap the night before our group recording session at New Earth Studios. We had been planning on recording a different song, but it just didn't seem quite right. My dad and I sat in our hotel room eating In-n-Out hamburgers and looking over the various lead sheets that I happened to have stored on my laptop, hoping to find a song that would fit better with the rest of the project.
We eventually settled on In Moments Like These, which happened to be one of the songs that Tom Brooks recorded on his (first?) instrumental album in the early 1980's. However, unlike the rest of the songs we were recording, we had no arrangement charts nor guide tracks. I was able to produce the arrangement on my laptop that night, but there was no plausible way for us to record a guide tracks... so Abraham Laboriel, Bill Maxwell and I recorded the bass/drums/electric piano tracks all live together in the studio.
Later we recorded Justo Almario on flute, my dad on acoustic guitar, and I added some additional acoustic piano. All in all, it turned out to be a very beautiful recording.
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