Posts Tagged: For the Broken & Mending

Music / New — 4 Comments
17
Aug 10

Sharing Some Progress..

So, I’m mak­ing progress on the album. I still have a way to go, but I thought I’d share some things just to show (prove) what I’m up to. Mind you, I’ll never show my whole hand because I need some ele­ment of sur­prise, but  I will let you get a peek.

“Potential” is a spo­ken word piece that I’ve intended as an inter­lude. I wrote it YEARS ago, when I was doing poetry pre­dom­i­nantly. This really fits the tone of the project and how I’ve been feel­ing lately. I thought I’d let you hear it, get some opin­ions, and let you know where I am. The writ­ten ver­sion fol­lows. Please com­ment and get ready…

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Music / New / Thoughts — No Comments
26
Jun 10

Change in the Gameplan, but You’ll Like It

Anyone who knows me knows I’ve had the con­cept for my album “For the Broken & Mending” for YEARS now. I’ve been writ­ing and acquir­ing ideas to make it as true to the orig­i­nal intent as pos­si­ble. I always felt over­whelmed by the task, even as I com­pleted more songs, and couldn’t fig­ure out why until recently.

I looked through the songs I felt fit the theme/concept of the album (I’m writ­ing new stuff that doesn’t fit this album too) and saw that I have enough raw mate­r­ial for a double-disc! Now, a double-disc project would be an awfully ballsy move for a debut album and I don’t have it in me to wait until EVERYTHING is com­pleted, so I made a deci­sion: the album will be released in TWO parts.

The songs that are just about ready will be released as “For the Broken & Mending, Part I” in the imme­di­ate future as a dig­i­tal down­load ini­tially, but hard copies should be avail­able for pur­chase in the month or so after. I’m really excited because my dream is finally feel­ing achiev­able and close to tangible.

I know more oppor­tu­ni­ties would come to me if I had prod­uct out and I’ve really hated sit­ting on so many songs for so long, but I refused to rush the release of this project and have the qual­ity suf­fer because of my impa­tience. So to every­one who asks “what’s up with the album,” thank you for being patient with me and sup­port­ing me through­out the process. I promise it will not be be vain. Stay tuned…

Journal / Video — No Comments
6
Feb 09

VIDEO JOURNAL: Entry #001 — The Purpose

Hey, I finally did it. Didn’t like my first attempt, so I upped the ante on the pro­duc­tion side. Giving a lit­tle insight on myself and the music to come.