wow, this really takes a long time – but it’s all worth it already. if you’ve read something out of the garden-category already, you know what this is about – at least kind of :-) after many years of songwriting, recording, playing live etc. i decided to do an album completely on my own because a lot of music – actually almost all of it – i participated in is lost due to issues of all kinds, mostly stupidity. you write something together, record it, then everything falls apart and that’s it. so i’m doing this alone because i want to create something that exists, no matter if it’s any good – but it will exist.

that being said, this project serves another purpose as well, which is getting more important every day and which is the reason why this is taking so long. writing and recording a bunch of songs is hardly a matter of months – at least it doesn’t need to be. but i’m taking this opportunity to learn anything this project teaches me….and pass this on to you of course :-)

after learning to play five different instruments in my life so far, i thought i was well prepared for something like that. little did i know about the surprises i’d encounter along the way… but that’s great! there is no timeframe, this project is not at all about making money and it doesn’t cost me a thing – so i can do whatever i want. and i want to learn as much as possible in the process of making this.

so where are we right now? there are five songs already written and, more or less, ready for tracking. lyrics are there but need to be changed, partly recreated. drums and bass are recorded for one song, guitars follow tomorrow. the artwork is finished……in my mind :-) to the point where it’s just about taking the actual pictures and make them look good. i have no idea about how to get to these technical aspects – much learning ahead, yay!

that’s pretty much it. writing goes on in the background while tracking the parts that are already finished. it took some time to mess around with drums, drumsounds, mics, placements and all those cool choices one has. no choices with bass, i don’t have a bass amp and only one bass – so it’s plain and simple d.i. recording into the mac so far, maybe with re-amping involved… i’ll explain every single one of those choices as soon as i have a decent audiofile to post here. i think it doesn’t make much sense to post a dry drumtrack without you having any idea of the song at all. so my approach will be to post a finished song and afterwards give you a tour of how it was created. that will certainly strip all the ‘magic’ away, but that’s exactly what this is about – cool, huh?