2008 had been a busy year for me. so many hours of composing and producing. my first commercial audio logo and a thirty minutes non-repetitive composition for example. but most of the work went into the upcoming album. there were times when i was struggling and nearly lost my confidence but nevertheless after a short break and further work pieces fell into place. i sometimes even lost the general survey handling many dozens of song ideas and preproductions and needed to focus again - then threw out a lot of songs for the better of the album and the final candidates have been chosen and refined again. and although i am not finished yet i know that i will be very proud of this record. i believe there could hardly be a better ending of a year

not all years in my past were that productive or even joyful so if you are having a hard time - keep up hope - there will be sun after the rain and dont give up chasing your dreams too early - success might just be around the corner

i wish all of you a great new years eve and an even greater 2009!

I wish everyone here some silent days with his family and friends or - if you prefer - some great party nights

I will try to keep my music computer switched off for some days and read a book instead. Of course i will also visit my family and eat lots of candy and gingerbread. Tranquillized by this ritual i will start working on the album more focused and concentrated than ever from the next week on…

About two months ago i had a collection of thirty songs & snippets from which to choose the final candidates…  i picked ten and worked on them so that they all had a song format (3-5 minutes) and were roughly mixed… and i thought that some of these songs are quite finished while others were - well, you might call them typical “album tracks”… and i decided to try better, to raise the quality of every song - at least from my point of view - and look for solutions that bring the “album tracks” to another level… and, just as you witnessed with the “stretching the seconds” motif, try many different things although that might be time consuming…

i know that i couldnt hold a december release date this way but this album is very important to me and no one would press this cd in the last week of december anyway…

so my new time frame is finishing the songs the first week of january, spend another week with mastering and trying to finally release it at the end of january… thats six weeks from now

Sometimes you need to clean the table, take a new sheet of paper, tear the house down and build it up again…

You might remember my “Stretching the Seconds” Post where i told you that i tried to make a full song out of a 30 second layout… but in the end the way of building onto the material i had didnt work like i thought it might… so i started again, just with the main melody and the two harmonic transitions and developed a three minute long progression of harmonics… but now i cant use most of the recorded stuff and i have to do the arrangement and production again… this is how the new layout sounds in the middle:

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the sound is too much “rock” and not enough “rolf” for now

i am still looking for a cool synthetic driving sound that fits into it…