slowburn

Patiently waiting for the new upcoming albums from Gui Boratto and The Field, and listening to one that I missed that is similar, but a little bit darker and moodier: “This Bliss” from Pantha du Prince.

The slowburn album has been mastered and is sounding great, the master CDs are currently on their way across the country. The artwork remains a work in progress, as inspiration is searched for, but should be finished soon.

In other news, my proposal for a book about Aphex Twin’s first album was swiftly rejected by the editor. So much for that idea. Looks like I’ll be focusing on writing music rather than writing books about it, for now at least…

…and on that note, I’ve finished up a rough sketch version of the Tenori-On album. I was really excited about my progress until it dawned on me that I was now at the exact same stage that I was at with slowburn when I started this blog. Hmmm, that was quite a while ago, wasn’t it? Hopefully this next one will go a bit faster. I am very happy with the music though, currently I have fifteen short-but-sweet songs clocking in at forty two minutes, and I like all of them. So that’s what I’ll be working on for the next few months.

The slowburn album has been sent off to Shawn at audible oddities to be mastered, and submodern co-conspirator Bryan Campbell is working on the album artwork and layout. The project is now out of my hands, artistically at least, which is mostly a relief. After the music is mastered and I have the master CD, and the artwork is finished and I have those files, the next step is to send it off to have some CDs manufactured. I’ll write about that some more when it happens.

I’ve been working on songs for my Tenori-On solo project, you can hear some of them here. I previously said I was going to do several mp3-EP digital-only releases of these, but now I’m leaning towards finishing a bunch of songs up and making it an album. It has been a fun, low stress project so far.

Music I’ve been listening to and liking:
Max Tundra, Parallax Error Beheads You – Goofy and weird and fun electronic geek-pop.
Ratatat, LP/3 – An indie rock band’s take on an electronic album, this is really good!
Silversun Pickups, Carnavas – Great 90’s-style alternative rock, some shoegazey stuff in there, I first heard of them in Rock Band.