when i heard about the rpm challenge 09 it was only 4 days away but i thought ‘ah, just for the heck of it…’ blue-eyed one might say, naive maybe, but it turned out really cool in the end.

i have recorded lots of stuff over the years but this was completely different – and new for i’m not really a hotshot when it comes to recording. i like to plan things, figure it all out before pushing the red button, know exactly where this will go……..until now. the big challenge wasn’t to record an album in 28 days, it was to get rid of all the worries and doubts and the whole detail-panic. it was to allow embrace the flaw, welcome it as an essential part of the whole – which it certainly is, as i know now.

i’ve always been good at jumping over my own shadow but this was a tough one because there’s always the ‘what if’. what if it just sucks, what if i’m not one of those creative people who can make something up on the spot which does, well, not suck? what if i just don’t have it in me? ok, this was no question of life and death because i could always return to planning things. but still it kind of nagged…

so, the solution seemed easy: i’d do what i always did – planning, only faster :-) it’s only 35 minutes of material in 4 weeks! come on, you can do that! that’s less than 9 minutes a week, about 1:20 a day – ridiculous! bring it on! then it hit me, i misunderstood the rpm-guide and thought the cd had to arrive there before march, so i’d have one week less – ah! week, schmeek – still no problem! but what about mixing? mastering? artwork? and most of all: what about writing the whole stuff? and what about the busy days, the ones that won’t leave me any time to work on it at all? EEEEEEEEEEK !!!

after a decent panic-attack i still decided i could do this the old-fashioned way. the hell i could!

to be continued…

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