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Studio update time!

So, yeah, I’ve been promising you a record for a little while now.

It’s coming. It always takes longer than I want. Some of it is about chasing down the songs out of my head. Some of it is just wrangling musicians (including myself), which are much more difficult than cats. But another large part of it is financial, and with that you just try to do your best. All these things conspire and make me afraid to pin down a date for the release.

In a perfect world, recording and mixing will be done sometime in the Spring. In that same perfect world, the cost of that will be covered by me. Then it’s time to worry about production and promotion (the actual work of it, I mean… the planning and worrying about it began long ago), so there will be a Kickstarter coming at some point because that’s just how art works out on the fringes these days.

Twelve songs, several breakdowns, one slow realization; a power-popera for your amusement. I hope when it’s here that you will enjoy. I made it for me and I made it for you.

P.S. I made a Spotify playlist of music whose only unifying factor is that I like it. If you follow the playlist (and I understand these strange future technologies correctly), when I update it you should get notified? Maybe? But you might enjoy it, and I’ll be updating it monthly.

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Update Time

I know, I know! But we really are still working on the record. Here’s a little footage from this past weekend at Lee Flier’s studio, as we tracked drums for one song, with only one song left to go. I’m hoping to be done recording by the end of Spring. What that means for a release date is sort of up in the air… I’m trying to figure out promotion and getting press (ha!), but that’s where I’m heading right now.  I hope you will all enjoy it, it means a lot to me.

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We begin actual work on a new record

It’s a strange world to rejoin after a decade away. The night is dark and full of neuroses.

I have big plans for the thing… or maybe “elaborate” is a better word. Elaborate plans that involve a number of non-musical skills I don’t currently possess, and a lot more work than just organizing the recording process. Plans that represent me trying to find ways to work inside and outside a music industry that is less recognizable to me than it was when I was last part of it, and finding different ways to tell a story that might be engaging.

I’m going to try to be more engaging, too. It’s probably no secret to you that every attempt to let the world know I exist is also a battle with my own mental limits. I won’t ask for your patience, because if you’re reading this you’re already still here, and thank you.