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Silence Is Not The Way
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
One thing I’ve learned about songwriting is that songs move at their own pace, always fighting with new ideas for the brain’s attention. Last weekend, for instance, I had a definite plan of attack for the four or five songs currently most developed. I even had note made over the course of the last few weeks. I suppose then it should have come as no surprise when, out of the blue [gray matter] comes a completely new track, a simple small track but none the less, a fierce competitor for my meager attention.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. I was happy to get that new track recorded and fairly well mixed as well as put some much needed mixing touches on last week’s material. Where does that leave the album? Nine songs recorded with another seven awaiting vocals, plus a slew of half-baked ideas awaiting their turn at the aegis’ brain well. To them I bid a good night and a wish for patience.
You too.
aegis
P.S. The new track is Nothing Is As It Seems, enjoy.
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I Haven’t Met You Yet
Monday, September 17th, 2007
I miss the podcast.
I miss recording and editing late at night and leaving my mess for the world to see, I mean, hear. I miss putting up tracks as soon as they’re recorded. I miss that.
But, as you may well know, I am hard at work writing and recording new songs. This is an update. So you can stay metacognitive on all things aegis. Did you know that I like lowercase and bold? I do. Apparently, I also like not finishing songs before I start new ones. ‘Cause that’s what I’ve been doing. But don’t think that I’m disappointed or in despair over that. Quite the contrary, I’m ecstatic at getting so much material down. Plus, coming back to songs after giving them a break gives some much needed perspective. November’s looking very good as a release target date. I’ll have, of course, a concrete date soon. And then I’ll be back with a new podcast.
Genres. I know people need to have ways of qualifying and categorizing music to make it easier to describe. But really, isn’t that just lazy. Can’t you just say,”It’s melodic song-writing using harsh and artificial sounds in a pop song format”? Or is it easier to say Industrial Indie-tronica or Darkwave or Coldwave or- what the hell does any of that mean? Who makes up these labels?
The next album’s going to be Country. I mean, the next album’s going to be Country and Western music category, a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States that roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music. Okay, maybe genres aren’t so bad after all…
~aegis
Tags: Chymical Wedding, coldwave, dark music, darkwave, indie-tronica, industrial, music, podcast, race to ruin, San Francisco
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