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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Just a word of surprised appreciation to the many of you who commented favorably on the "Holy Name" entry. I was already considering doing more photo-auto-bio posts, so you'll likely see more of that.
To answer a frequent question regarding the album... yep, it's moving along nicely. The slowness of work progress has mostly to do with the new (to me) practice of making fairly complete demos of the songs before actual recording. This has sped progress in the studio, since we've been keeping close to the demo arrangements, but it also gives me a chance to assess a tune in "mock-up" form for a pretty long time before entering the studio. Crappy songs, half-baked ones, thematically irrelevant ones are consequently discarded. The hope is that his will result in less sprawl and more sock; had this approach been used earlier, the other 3 albums would've been a lot shorter and more coherent.
We've received several offers from kind labels willing to release it, so it will probably be out there in some form other than a download. I do like the idea of the album as "object" with art and words and such, but I'm indifferent-to-dubious about the viability of trad "releases" in general, much less with my stuff. We'll do something nice in any case.
A wonderful band named Thinguma*jigSaw has been in touch. They are from Norway, transplanted to Ireland and they purvey what they call "splatterfolk." This seems to twine Harry Smith-ish balladeering, Philip Glass ostinopeggiations, and Daniel Johnston loonpop. It all comes out powerful good. I'm enlisted to write liner notes for their upcoming album, so if that all sounds interesting, I direct you to their mySpace page. And you'd be no fool to prove me wrong about all that "viability of trad releases " once they issue their opus.
To answer a frequent question regarding the album... yep, it's moving along nicely. The slowness of work progress has mostly to do with the new (to me) practice of making fairly complete demos of the songs before actual recording. This has sped progress in the studio, since we've been keeping close to the demo arrangements, but it also gives me a chance to assess a tune in "mock-up" form for a pretty long time before entering the studio. Crappy songs, half-baked ones, thematically irrelevant ones are consequently discarded. The hope is that his will result in less sprawl and more sock; had this approach been used earlier, the other 3 albums would've been a lot shorter and more coherent.
We've received several offers from kind labels willing to release it, so it will probably be out there in some form other than a download. I do like the idea of the album as "object" with art and words and such, but I'm indifferent-to-dubious about the viability of trad "releases" in general, much less with my stuff. We'll do something nice in any case.
A wonderful band named Thinguma*jigSaw has been in touch. They are from Norway, transplanted to Ireland and they purvey what they call "splatterfolk." This seems to twine Harry Smith-ish balladeering, Philip Glass ostinopeggiations, and Daniel Johnston loonpop. It all comes out powerful good. I'm enlisted to write liner notes for their upcoming album, so if that all sounds interesting, I direct you to their mySpace page. And you'd be no fool to prove me wrong about all that "viability of trad releases " once they issue their opus.
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