More Progress

As planned, the songwriting is really picking up steam since the end of exams.  I've got a good 7 written, which is wild.  I had this moment today where I was like "Okay, 7 done, and 5 left", and just paused for a while thinking about how there's more done than remaining.

This thing's actually going to get finished.
 

 Words are lucky to make it to the page before being recorded

Honestly, I couldn't be happier.  Ryan Kelly is doing the guitar work on a track tentatively called Love Your Hero.  We were listening to a bunch of the recently recorded songs in the living room on the surround speakers, and I almost felt proud of how well this thing is manifesting itself.

Only almost.  Can't let the pride sink in yet.  There's four to six more beautiful tracks just waiting to be written on to Emicrania.

Here's to headaches my friends.

Music on its way

I've been recording an album.

I have instrumentals down for around 5 songs.  It started off with just me recording these tracks, but recently I've decided there's too much musical talent in the people that surround me to keep closed doors on this.  So I've started inviting people in to record on tracks, which is yielding some unexpected (but fantastic!) results.

So far it's spiced with some of the heaviest, fun stuff I've ever written, along with some psychedellic euphoric explosions, might throw in some folk love songs about the world, and there will probably be some hip-hop on one of the tracks, which I'm really jazzed about.

It's set to be called Emicrania, and it's almost not fair to say that I wrote it, cause it feels so much like the album is just writing itself.  I'll just think of a riff, go to record it before I forget it, and then all of a sudden these ghosts enter my head telling me what to write next, and then what after that, and what after that - and I find myself having recorded for 6 hours straight without eating or going to the bathroom.

Changing clothes is for the distracted.

I'm going to be putting some serious work into this in the coming weeks, since there's a large gap between school and work.  Which feels amazing.  Because honestly, Emicrania is growing into this powerful wild beast ramping out of control, and I have to release it!

Hopefully I'll have a good 11-14 songs written by end of month, so I can spend my summer taking my time recording some high-fi tracks.