I have a side project going now, one that I can only talk about vaguely at the moment because I’m not entirely sure it’s supposed to be public knowledge yet. It’s not intended to replace anything I currently have going on, it’s just a chance to work with someone who’s stuff I admire and see what comes of it. The plan right now is to try to put together an EP.
We got together on 3/21 for the first time, not having really done anything up to that point apart from watching Beatles movies looking for obscure phrases that made good band names (no success so far). I’ve never really collaborated with anyone to this degree; in Radiant City, Robi and I would come in with songs pretty much written and then as a band we’d figure out the arrangements. But the goal with this was to try and literally co-write the songs. Starting completely from scratch with someone throwing out a musical idea, both of us working up a melody, piecing together the direction musically of the rest of the song and then getting it down on tape. I don’t think either of us expected to accomplish much the first day; I sort of figured we’d just end up talking about what we wanted to try and do, but instead we ended up with a decent skeleton of a song.
Not bad for a two hour visit.