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BULLET POINT SUMMARY OF RAMBLING NONSENSE:

• Monday offically ‘BLOG UPDATE DAY’.
• Art for the album is nearly complete!  Tim [Aka Shift.] @ Futurorg at the helm and doing a wonderful job dealing with my irrational requests for album concept cohesion with the visuals.
• Radio PRUN 92fm, out of Nantes has played me. the show is called Triangle.
• The 1st track from the album (titled ‘A Long Day Ends‘) now finished.  excerpt now on myspace.
• NEXT WEEK: Set In Sand interview!!!

It’s Monday, and my whiteboard tells me that it’s my designated blog update day.  This week there is more than just rambling yaddas to mention though.  Honestly.

As any of the 9 people that hit this page may have recognized, this blog doesn’t get as much attention as it really could by its’ author.  Maybe i’m not cut out for the whole “keeping tabs on my work progress” thing — it takes cracking the whip from other sources to remind me to post stuff here.  Of course, not having a label/pr/manager type person constantly asking me to keep people informed is part of the equation.  There are many larger (in audience and number of actual players) bands that i speak to who do play ball at their management’s request.  This blog was my own idea though, and thus the enthusiasm i had when i decided that it could be neat is constantly swinging from “very much” to “do what now?”

So the enthusiasm, right — well i am genuinely happy to have a designer on board for the  album’s art.  For awhile it was just me, and though i have many lovely designer friends i ultimately chose shift [aka Tim] from Futurorg.  His work is not to be missed.  Hit the link there to see what he’s done.  The cover concept is more or less completed and i’m very happy with the results so far.

A show based out of Nantes, France called ‘Triangle‘ on PRUN 92fm has played some of my music, click the link there to listen to the latest show — wherein my music can be heard at a few points in the broadcast.

For album related information — the 1st track from the album is now FINALLY FINISHED.  Hear an excerpt from the song ‘A Long Day Ends’ up on myspace right now!  Arrangement is the hardest part of writing these days.  My computer just won’t play the full arrangements live, so my way of working has changed completely over the past few months.  I think it results in more slow, sweeping changes in the music, and is closer to orchestrating songs more than just banging them out.  Less live, more planned has many benefits though, and this album will (hopefully) provide a good example of those.

Crap this is getting long, i’m going to put a summary at the top…

Next week: an interview with remixer/friend/genius Set In Sand! — come by next Monday for the full thing.  Any questions or comments you’d like to have included can be posted to here as replies and i’ll try to work them into the interview when it happens over the weekend.

And that’s all i’m writing for now.

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