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Tonight was our last evening of music before Mike goes on holiday for 2 weeks. We finished making noise at about 11:15pm when Mike left to go home and pack and then head straight for the airport - he flies in just a few hours time!
Earlier this week, I worked on the mix and the structure of our latest demo track, that we're referring to as "balance" for the time being. Mike and I scrutinised the latest version of the track this evening and agreed that it has gone as far as we can take it until we've got some lyrics and melody mapped out - although the song is far from finished, if we impose too much of a rigid structre on the song now it will limit us when we come to work on the vocals and lyrics.
As there wasn't anything useful to do on the song, and because Mike is already in holiday mode, we took the opportunity to review our most recently finished demoes and ended up getting very slightly depressed. It turns out we've only finished 3 songs this year - that really does sound quite bad, doesn't it?
In truth, these 3 tracks are much more sonically complex and much less "written" than last year's tracks. Last year we were working from songs that were already written and were just working them up into good quality production demos - this year we've been writing, demoing, producing and re-writing the songs as we go. So I think if we focus on those facts enough, it might temper the depression slightly.
While Mike is away I'm going to try and tweak some of the things that are still nigglingly wrong with last year's demos, and then when Mike is back we hit the final leg which is to work up the production on 2 or 3 more songs that were written a couple of years ago, but which we've been leaving until last, because we like the songs and want to make sure their production fits with the overall style of the album.
We've also been talking about resurrecting an old old song that we wrote back in the 1990s, but which we never properly recorded - so that could be quite interesting. All being well we will have an instrumental version of the album in pretty good shape by christmas and then all we need to do is get going with some vocals!!
I'm hoping that we can put an instrumental snippet of one of the new tracks on OurSpace page as a little christmas present. But even though the mince pies are already in the shops (and yes I've seen them), we probably won't put any audio christmas present online until the middle/end of December, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait a little bit longer to hear the noises we've been writing about over the past few months.
S.
10:30 PM
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