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So you are really now seeing the teeny a little to the left, a little to the right stuff.

This song might be about to take a massive haircut. I can't be certain. As producer I kinda gotta make a call on when theyre trying to make a song do something it cannot.

Paul wants a middle 8, theo wants half the chorus removed. I think the straight forward nature of it is hypnotic, Theo thinks it's boring.

I have tried 3 'shortening edits' taking it down from 4:45 to 3:15/3:45 respectively.

I like it as it stands, but...unless there's some key reason, taking input and adjusting it is why this is a 'band' not a solo act.

My thoughts are that it shares the repetition of 'hate to see you go', the Little Walter number we have done for years. Cutting the choruses in half/ dropping the number of allrights just feels out of symmetry to me. Whereas to Theo it's just too samey for too long.

Adding a middle eight? Cutting choruses? Borrowing from one of Mr Wizards comments from early in our recording career, write a new song.

Sometimes it just has to be how it is. 'Hard rock' shares the same format. It's simple, it's danceable.

Theo says 'if you want it on commercial radio'...i could offer up american pie as a counter or I could point out that terrestrial commercial radio seems to be a 20th century artefact or I could...

Keep editing and sending out variants.

Welcome to the stormcellar folks, this is how we make the songs sound the way they do. Some of the work is very process oriented and you gotta have a certain vibe to keep repeating it until you get it right. For me it's like carving or painting. It's stages until it's 'just right'

We aint there yet. Expect more variants/mixes to come.

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I have 15 release candidates.

You know most of them. 3 I havent shared yet cos they're still brewing and it's not quite time.

It seems more rational to share the completed idea than the fragment. I don't mean the mix, I mean the point where it stops being parts of a sketch and becomes a fully formed idea.

After the idea is right, it then goes through the process to become a song.

The most recent addition was a new one I think is headed for a side project album.

My guess at the moment is - 1 Stormcellar EP, 1 Sturmkeller EP, 1 Stormcellar album, and then as the time progesses, a new side project Ep/Album. More on that later, but I have done the first sample artwork. Knowing how my brain works, that's a sign.

Mind you, I still have not released the Instrumental collection dagnabbit. Let's see if I can get that done this week.

I also found I can get a cheap image generator so I am up for some more image videos.

Plenty to do. More to say. When it's time.

Alllriiiiighttt.

So we are getting towards the point where we can make some decisions. Let's recap:

1. Planned album with RT has not materialised. I might try again but I’d say if I haven’t got it together by now, chances aren't high we'll see anything this year.
2. This last month pause has definitely slowed our roll somewhat.
3. Things are ramping back up again so we may see a burst of activity in the last 3 months of the year.

4. I found a cheaper Image generator and might have a crack at finishing a few more image/still videos.

Next!

Release Schedules.

1. the instrumental album is good to go, pending me working out what to name the songs to differentiate them in the catalogue of YouTube from the old versions.
2. Here's a list of what we have made and released so far this year, (excluding Basilisk)

• Go Down Easy (unplugged)
• The Duke
• I disappear (unplugged)
• waiting on a message from bob
• liquidator
• morning flame
• 2-week millionaire
• the fix is in

The Duke is out as a single, go down easy and I disappear unplugged are both out as videos.

The rest are out as singles.

It'd be a weird album with that lot of songs.

Initially, we were proposing to put The Duke, ID, GDE all on one EP 'songs about Death'

Ok great. That leaves 5 songs.... except...

Liquidator is a Sturmkeller song and I reckon needs to be on its own EP with a few other STURMKELLLLLLLERRRR tracks.

That leaves 4 songs.

Right now, I have 3 more in mixing that are coming along to a release point - Psych. Surf, The Yearning and Heavens on my shoulder.

I expect therefore we will have 7 tracks ready for an album.

Additionally, 'Crossfire' has never appeared on an Album, only as a single, so...that could go on there. Potentially, that makes 8.

In Greenhouse3, we have more guides and concept tracks and in the Greenhouse 2 seedbank we have more concept recordings. I actually have spreadsheets.

I made an effort in 2023 to drain all the old ideas out so that we’d have space for fresh one's, and I expect that will show up as new material this quarter.

From Greenhouse 3 I can already see 2 new prospects almost ready to be moved into development.

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What's Next?

1. Release instrumental collection to Spotify/streamers. There won’t be any CD's made.
2. Release an EP with The Duke, GDE and ID ...OR...do we put the duke on an album album?
Nah.
3. Finish current mixes, develop greenhouse concepts and see if any new stuff arises.
4. write a few more STURMKELLER songs.

Song Order:

One of the next things will be to start to compile this year’s tracks into 1 album, to listen to, to work out song orders and to blend.

Once I get the next lot of mixes out, I'll do that. Once again when I circulate it to the boys, you'll get it too.

Status of current mixes:

Psych Surf

awaiting guitar and bass

awaiting final mixing

The Yearning

awaiting replacement guitar
awaiting Bass
needs replacement vocals and harmonies

awaiting any additional solo

then to final mixing

Heaven on my shoulders

awaiting lyrics/vox

awaiting additional instrumentation

Remember, not all these tracks make it through all the way. A few I have in mixing have been returned to the greenhouse for further development, and there's always the allure of new shiny ideas.

Other Items

Website migration (don’t ask)
2024 CRAB festival
December Mini Tour
More videos
The Big Band Show

Thanks for your support in 2024, we hope you've been enjoying the ride with us.

We'll crack on with what we can get done, and see if we can finish another album this year.