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JULY 08
Hi there, Myles here
Just letting everyone know I'm recording phase three of Juno Falls in between now and summer 09 and hope to let you hear little bits and bobs along the way so dont tune out completely! I know it's a bit quiet on the myspace front but I'm deep in the trenches with a great band crafting new songs. Dave Lawless, Daz Keating, and Stephen Mogerly are joining me at various places around Ireland to bring to life ideas we've been playing with since Juno Falls last Irish Tour in April..
....So now I'm about fart on about what's goin on in my head for any people out there I'm imagining take an interest. So please don't read on if you're not into musicians talkin about themselves too much!....
There is a maturity that comes with making albums, whether youre starting out recording them in your bedroom and stickin them online or you're signed to a label and pluggin yer sox off, there's always a sound, smell and colour that breathes it's way in to the music and gets brighter, more clear and resonant with every season of songs.
The world of labels and recording studios is filled with people who help u focus on that vague element within your work and make it stronger and more obvious to you. Though they might not always get it right and hamper your potential. The world of recording in your bedroom is a place where only you and anyone one else in the room focus on what it is that makes you shine. It's a more personal place which makes it easier to put your potential under the microscope. If you know the Juno albums you'll know that 'Starlight Drive' was the bedroom record and 'Weightless' the record label album and you'll also hear the differences..
After two albums I can tell you what I've learnt so far.. Starlight Drive taught me I enjoy folk so much more than the rock music I used to worship before Juno Falls. It's a romantic and pretty album but on a personal level, I hear it now in some parts as a little naiive and lyically a bit like a teenage diary, which is a little harder for me to relate to now, the sharper and harder a nut I've become.
I'm not the kind of musician who wants to get noticed by singing out in the town square. Given a chance to sing to the masses, Weightless and most of it's songs could attract the right ammount of attention, for me it was written in that way. The album never got a big release because of horrible record company misfortune (which I'll put in a seperate blog someday ;) and maybe for a good reason because in terms of my personality, being true to my tastes as a listener and what I listen to that inspires me, Weightless works too hard to reflect just a portion.
They are my only negative feelings towards the last two albums and I hope that's magnified for you the direction of the new material. Very true, very organic and simply beautiful. Fans of 'Atom Bomb' and 'On A Whim' might understand what I'm babbling on about. The best foot forward for the next offering of Juno Falls is the sharing the vision from the ground up with my other band mates.
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Myles
10:18 PM
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