By now surely Vondel's Lucifer is infamously long awaited but still unavailable. As to that, currently, I'm awaiting a reference copy to be sent from the mastering engineer in England to me. Meanwhile, the organisation handling my graphical works for the 24 paged booklet is also working on getting it a bit more... shall we say, professionally looking. Audio and Visio working, then, in parallel on finishing V'sL, I've found some time to work on a few new things and found this week to be quite productive.

Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement is still expected in late May or early June, and because I've listened just a few times too much to it (playing it about four times a day and almost no other music!), some other projects besides the Second Movement got prioritized:

- Crystal Palace EP, about the rise and fall of... Crystal Palace, the magnificent structure that housed the Great Exhibition (not the football team!). Composed two new songs that fit nicely to the other one (Sparks, the 'old one') and run diametrically opposed to the views of those reviewers who pigeon-hole us together with all the notorious drum'n'brass bands (i mean 'neoclassical'). To hell with them! Instead of drum, pizzicato strings make excellent rhythmic elements and I am now going for a totally free-of-military elements requiem.

- Twelve Caesars, which will be the interbellum album; that is, between V'sL I and II, which means working on it in parallel to V'sL II (we also did that with The Winter of Constantinople). Needless to say, this will be about Suetonius magnum opus of the same title and will of course feature XII tracks. Yesterday I finished track VI, or at least, finished 'sketching' the composition, which I will now upload. It's about chaos forming out of a seemingly regal structure, featuring some sort of tragi-comic decadence.

Cheerio,

Mich