Posts Tagged: update

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 — 1 Comment
22
Jun 10

journal 004: re-assessing

I know it’s been FOREVER since I’ve posted a vlog entry, but I’m back on track. In this entry, I talk about the album hold-ups along with some other per­sonal revelations.

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6
Sep 09

My New Blog Home

I pur­chased the “cjayconrod.com” domain a few months back and have been sit­ting on it while I tried to fig­ure exactly where I’m going with the web­site. I’m happy to report that it’s quickly form­ing and, in the mean­time, I’ve trans­ferred my blog to this address (well, the “best of” my blog posts, at least). I like this lay­out much more and plan on mak­ing greater use of this blog than my pre­vi­ous one.

I’m still work­ing on the album and I’m pick­ing up steam again, so be on the look-out for some “sneak-peaks” soon. I’ve been in the stu­dio col­lab­o­rat­ing with some of STL’s best hip-hop artists, includ­ing Fallout (of iLL­PHON­ICS), Kryptonite, and Black Spade. I’m really excited about the songs I’ve been allowed put a lit­tle of my soul­ful stank on and I’m still wait­ing to hear back on some future col­labs, but I’m keep­ing those under wraps until things are finalized.

New video post­ings will be com­ing soon. I missed my video jour­nal and I think I’ve got some things I need to talk about soon so get ready. ..