Whilst 'Dazzlebox' is now completed and heading for release, I'm already sorting through some of the material for the album which will possibly follow it. This album will be a combination of vocal and instrumental tracks taken from the mass of Cubase recordings I've accumulated since the Pandemic struck.
Here are just a few of the song titles:
'I Was Speaking With Orson Welles.'
'The Dusk Before The Dark.'
'Kingdom Of The Sky.'
'Silver Sparks And Coloured Stars.'
'Merry And Bright'
'An Acre Of Sunshine.'
'Friday In The Future.'
'Mechanical City.'
'The Listening Station.'
'Thunder, Perfect Mind.'
'Ghosts Dance In Ghostland.'
'When The Wind Blows All Away.'
'Fantastico.'
'The Super Sensualist.'
'Driving Through England.'
'The Astronomy Of The Heart.'
'Light Rain.'
And many more, which I won't list here.
Once I've chosen which tracks to put on the album and worked out a running order, it will be time to choose a title for it and prepare the package artwork. This one's working title is 'Timescapes', (though there's no guarantee that this will be the final title, but it might be.)
So, there you go, another collection of new recordings for your listening pleasure. Coming in the not too distant future!
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Really like the Timescapes image.
What about the 13 albums that were in queue pre-cubase Bill??
love the image and the title...later in the year ?..hopefully june !!! LOL
Fancinating! Do you use a computer program and use filters to make these album covers Bill?
I've now boiled down, (maybe that should read 'boiled up,') the number of possible inclusions for 'My Private Cosmos' to 60 worthy tracks. How to get this number down to around 14 final choices for the album is going to be a real task. It means a lot of listening back to different combinations, getting the mood changes right so that the album is both varied and cohesive. I keep avoiding dealing with it and continue to record new pieces but I can't put off the job much longer. The longer I leave it, the longer the list of possibilities gets. I'll maybe record just one more piece and then make a start at selecting the final running order.😉
You and Bill Frisell have a similar knack for interesting and intriguing song titles. I like that.
How about "Tunes from Tomorrow" as an album title, very you 🙂
Intriguing and exciting titles! So you're choosing from about four albums worth of material? It will be wonderful, I'm sure... but I'm a bit bothered that somewhere in this we'll miss out on a huge number of excellent songs. There are, after all, already a dozen unreleased albums from your previous studio set-up.
If you ever get the urge simply to give away some leftovers to tidy your shelves (so to speak), you'll get no complaints. I remember that 'Special Metal' received 'only' a Bandcamp release because there were aspects of it that you weren't fully at ease with... It's turned out to be one of my favourites.
I think you have a lot of fans here who are perfectly happy to just hear you let loose and have fun in the studio. Quality control is great but we'd have a happy time with the leftovers on any day!
Sorting through the list of available songs for a future album, (not counting previously completed but unreleased albums,) I've decided to abandon the 'Timerscapes' title for now in favour of a different title and concept. A recently recorded 8 minute long track seems to hold the key to the shape of the album, The track is titled 'My Private Cosmos' and I think this title wil better connect with some of the individual tracks moods. So, 'My Private Cosmos' will be the album's title and I now have to continue sorting through the mass of tracks to choose which ones will fit the concept as I see it.
Here is the short list of tracks, (though it is far from short.) I'm aiming at 12 or 14 titles to include on the album. As you can see, this is going to be a difficult task with so many possibilities to choose from.
Creating albums is akin to creating a painting or a sculpture, it's a slow, painstaking process and the end result is not often apparent at the start. Serendipity is as much a factor as intent...
So here is what I have to choose from:
‘I Was Speaking With Orson Welles.’
‘The Dusk Before The Dark.'
‘Kingdom Of The Sky.’
'Silver Sparks And Coloured Stars.'
'Merry And Bright'
'An Acre Of Sunshine.'
'Friday In The Future.'
'Mechanical City.'
'The Listening Station.'
'Thunder, Perfect Mind.'
'Ghosts Dance In Ghostland.'
'When The Wind Blows All Away.'
'Fantastico.'
'The Super Sensualist.'
'The Astronomy Of The Heart.'
‘Light Rain.’
‘Days Of Wonder.’
‘My Private Cosmos.’
‘Under Fading Stars.’
‘The Memory Museum.’
‘Coasting.’
‘Osram Diadem.’
‘In The Land Of Nothing Doing.’
‘I Watch The World.’
‘There’s A Star Somewhere.’
‘The Light In The Mirror.’
‘Hang This Moment On A Sigh.’
‘The Universe Is Fast Asleep.’
‘Far Side Of Nowhere.’
‘Mists Of Time.’
‘Another Rainy Day.
‘When We Were Beautiful.’
‘Lanterns Are Lighting.’
‘In The Chapel Olf Her Sparkles.’
‘Through My Window.’
‘Seven Keys To This City.’
‘Haunted.’
‘With All The Will In The World.’
‘’Dreaming Of Another World.’
‘Helios In Memoryland.’
‘This Dreamlike World.’
‘Ghost Trains Trave On Phantom Tracks.’
‘The Navigator.’
‘Silver Stars Will Shine,’
‘Driving Through England.’
‘I Recall Jets At Dawn.’
‘Time’s Tide.’
‘Gazing Through Golden Windows.’
‘Your Secret Sign.’
‘They Tell You This, They Tell You That.’
‘Celluloid Ghosts.’
‘The TV’s On The Blink.’
‘The Infernal Machine.’
Since there are so many albums in waiting, my synchronistic muse messaged me to relate, that there may be a combined opus that might be brought together like the albums in Noise Candy. (Main trigger - Timescapes).
Submitted humbly.
Oh yeah, the Dazzlebox samples are superb, stellar, crystalline - By golly, I think he's got it!
Keep, keeping On!
We are currently looking at making the extremely rare 'Caliban And The Chrome Harmonium' album available as a digital download only reissue. Hopefully this will appear sometime later this year with brand new, downloadable cover art.
PLEASE, PLEASE use that cover art! It's fantastic.
Now that sounds great !!! Waiting for Dazzle to be shipped and a new album in the cooker !! 2021 looking brighter and brighter 😊😊😊