Filed under: The Still Sound | Tags: Band, Cd Release Show, Recording, The Still Sound
I have been working a lot on getting ready to record/ put out this album. I have taken lots of pictures for my album artwork lately, searching downtown to find some things that I think could potentially look cool for the fold out and back print of the cd. I have also done a lot of networking and through a friend found a graphic designer to put together all of my album art by editing and structuring all the pictures and laying it all out accordingly. Through meeting him I also now have him designing shirts in hopes to have them printed before the release date.
I have also been working on setting up the biggest possible CD release show I can get in my home town in Iowa on Friday March 26th. Through touring and playing in bands in that area for so long I have made friends with a lot of bands that will hopefully draw a big crowd to the show. I have dealt with getting ahold of the venue and figuring out, with them, the money situation and have come to terms on a plan that works for the both of us. On top of that I have been able to contact all the bands that I want to play and got them all situated and set up to play and in what order they will play. Also I have had to figure out load in times and pretty much just and overall schedule of the day and night of the show. I am now getting a team together of people who live in that area to start manually distributing fliers and local hang outs and also just other local shows in that area before time. I will also be making what I call a digital flier that I will start posting everywhere along with the other bands that are playing. I can then start a facebook/myspace event to help promote online and just to all the “fans” I have established via the internet.
I start recording drums in a week and then have about 3 weeks after that to finish recording everything else, mix, and master it. I just can’t wait to have it all done and out.
Filed under: The Still Sound | Tags: Cd Release Show, Music, My Music, New Album, Recording, The Still Sound
Lately I have been working on writing music for my full band “acoustic/folk” project along the lines of such artists as City and Colour, William Fitzsimmons, etc. I have been in a metal band my whole life and when the touring and such came to an end I was in search of playing something a bit different and honestly this is just what came out and felt right. All the music has passion behind it. I try not to write about things that I can’t personally connect with because I feel like no one else will connect if I don’t even truly know what I am talking about.
I write all of the music mostly just with an acoustic guitar laying vocal melodies over it, then I try to program a basic idea of drums and bass that I have in my head and let the people that play those instruments in the band elaborate on them with their skill. I have done a lot of pre production demo work along with a few purely acoustic demos just to host on Myspace for people to preview what I am doing, also to send to the rest of my band in order to “get the feel” for everything to prepare for recording. Putting my “demos” up also helps me gain some sort of hype and it really helps when I’m trying to book shows.
Right now I am just finishing up demoing all of the songs out so that I can do some sort of pre production to the songs. Some things I plan on doing is evaluating the structure of each song making sure its holding the listeners attention as a whole. Then I plan on re evaluating all of the melodies making sure that every note flows together well and portrays the overall feel I want in the song. The final part for me is searching through the songs and finding all the little “extra tid bits” I would like to add, such as volume swells, a piano at parts, and over dubbing, or anything really of that nature. In the next few weeks I will start recording our first demo which will contain 7 original songs. Drums will start in about 2 weeks then bass, guitar, and finally vocals. I am hoping to be done recording and mixing within a month for a tentative C.D. release show on March 27th.
