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First gig in 2 months, Wickham Park Sun 10 Sept.

Everybody wants to add something. I rather wish they would, as then we could be finished.

Notwithstanding the fact that I am due 2 vocals and 2 X lyrics...umm....

Mixing/Mastering/Writing/Recording simultaneously is this circular breathing process that's like mixing an escher painting.

Usually, we gather mixing notes together as we get towards final mixing. But songs are still popping into (or out of?) existence and I am not done with bits that I need to be done with before we can make notes.


A few options. Hoping something will crystallize soon.

Of cour

This intermediate master thing was a great idea. It's now time for notes and fixes. I am wondering about the time frame. 30 days seems reasonable. 6 weeks seems even more reasonable. Somewhere in that range maybe?

Ex COVID, this has been one of the longest patches without live play. Strange days indeed.

I am thinking the album tracks will be a little different to the singles. Some tweaking will occur. 

This is such a different production chain wow it's noticeable. Usually the masteres works with what they are given. here, I can go back in the production chain and tweak the mix.

I feel fortunate that I have some good 'ears' around me as I try my hand at this. There's still a part of me that would be very glad if this was being done by someone else LOL (piker!).

Mind you, if someone really likes it and they send me a bag of cash we can always remaster, so that's kinda practical.

I am giving some thought to live sreaming a few of the final mixing sessions just cos :) Stay tuned.

Tech has changed us again. This is the first time we have ever done an intermediate master.

I am a bit wary...ok make that extremely wary...of the idea that I am mastering. Mixing was one thing, but this seems...inadvisable.

AJ is about the only person I'd trust to do both. Maybe Ben. Me? Hmmm....on the other hand, the price is extremyl reasonable and the technology is...remarkable.

I put all the current songs, in their present states, together in one pseudo mastered session. It's a viewpoint we haven't had before. Usually it's mix, hand over, wait, see what you get.

The other thing is that while the songs are unfinished...well a few of them...I am getting to hear the album? (ALBUM??) as a cohesive thing.

Thanks to Ben we did a studio session on Friday which may be the final studio session for this release. Maybe.

I think we've hit 10 or 11 songs, now depending on whether 'Soothesayer' survives, and/or if anything develops before we finish what we have. I am trying to avoid going back to the 'main' studio (ha!) until we're ready with a brand new batch of stuff.



Having embraced Mr Wizards idea of declaring victory with what we have, we may be on a completion glide slope now. Which is nice. As that free's up some brain power to look at the other stuff :)

The tech is influencing what we make and how. It's fascinating.

  folded from one sheet of paper

finding no trace of your maker

and so without belief in nothing

you test the limits of your suffering

to find again that there’s no distance

The world outside’s the one within you

Telling me to mind my place

and kiss the hem of your brocade

while all the world turns around

with you at centre stage

this time

All the kings and queens bow down before you

to venerate the Portion you control

it’s how we’ll keep yourself from ever looking

down to the furthest recess of your soul

go and break my heart

go and break my heart

go and break my heart       

when the wheel turns around and brings me where you lay

this time

and it cursed the eyes that ever saw you

to frame your sacrifice in black and white

with your hands and knees clasped out before you

did they notice that you lay down like a child to die?       

tell me can you finally hear the silence

that’s the sound it makes when giants fall

to see your innocence undone in violence

when the sacred’s stolen from the world

And it’s only when it happens to you

You get to feel like everybody else

Though I’m trying so hard to accept it

All I want is to forget myself