Lots o' tracks up!

I've updated the tracks on the various social networking sites so you can now stream Save What You Can in its entirety. You can also, if you are so inclined, now purchase high-quality versions of any or all tracks from any of my albums on Bandcamp - just follow the Music link.

Save What You Can

That's the title of the new album, and it looks like this:

Head over to the Music page to hear some samples!

IT IS DONE!

The bits are on the disc and the art is at the printer. Expect to see sample tracks up here in the next couple of days (and some of you out there can look for packages in the mail).

The end is nigh

Just one song left to mix down tonight, and a final mastering session tomorrow to fix any remaining glitches, and I'll be done. How do professional recording engineers do this day in and day out? Even doing it a couple of hours a day my head sometimes feels like it's about to explode. At this point I'm starting to wonder if everything I'm doing is just making it all sound worse.

And there's always the unpleasant surprises, like the clipping on that vocal that somehow didn't get noticed during any of the preceding stages, and now it's too late to fix. Or wait, did I introduce that somehow with something I just did? *crawls back into mixing hell*

One week...

...give or take. After some long sessions over the Thanksgiving break, I'm now halfway done with mastering. The album also now officially has a title, and Drey just sent me a first look at the cover art last week as well -- and it's fantastic!

So, five songs left to master, and final artwork, and then album #4 will be unveiled. Or unleashed. Or releashed?

Recording is finished!

I wrapped up the last bit of recording for the last track "The World" this past weekend. I can hardly believe it. Now I just need to remix and master all of the tracks over the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile my good friend Drey is working on the album cover, as he has for all of my previous CDs. If all goes well, this thing should be finally, finally done before Christmas.

For the want of a title the album was lost

I spent several hours in the studio working on "Four Colors" yesterday, and that reggae song extraordinaire, and more importantly, track nine of ten, is now complete! One to go, plus a little remixing and mastering, and this project will be finished at long last.

Except that it lacks a title still. So far, inspiration has failed to strike. When you've spent four years on an album, the pressure is pretty high to come up with a worthy name for it. If I don't think of something good soon, I may have to resort to Internet random name generators.