While I have been fairly inactive for the last few years in regards to my music it doesn’t mean I havn’t been working on stuff. For the years I was at university I seemed to succumb to writers block which I think I’m over now, my problem is that I don’t really have the right vocal recording setup at the moment. Now I know that’s no excuse for any musician, who should be able to write and record anywhere but I tend to be quite shy about recording my vocals.
Not shy as in stage shy, that’s different. But having privacy when I’m working out new lyrics, melodies to go over songs is extremely vital to me. I can get quite embarressed with bits that don’t fit or if I mess up and someone walks in. One notable moment when recording one track back in 2006 was me singing, and my step-dad walking up the stairs to find out what was wrong with me, he thought I was in pain.
One situation i’m thinking of is when I do finish a set of tracks, how should I release it. The fairly common was is to bundle it into a group and release as an album, but that is an age old system that I believe could do with some shaking up. In this modern times people are still writing individual songs and bundling them together to form an album. From a popular-culture point of view this is fine but I’ve always believed that if I’m writing songs to be put next to each other I’d like them to have some kind of relationship, tell a story etc. Some of my favourite albums do exactly this (Tommy – The Who, Snow – Spock’s Beard, Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails).
But also the case of when I do write individual songs (which I do most of the time) should I bundle them together or just put them up on this website for people to download. Do individual songs lose their punch if released in the singular or can they be regarded better as part of a collection. This is what i’m tempted to do, simply put out songs as they are mixed and mastered.
I’m also going to put up my source files for anyone to use (creative commons license obviously) as-well as a detailed explanation on how I wrote the song, what it means etc. I feel alot of artists don’t spend enough time explaining how they came about songs and what interesting things happened in the recording process. In that regard I’d like people to know how I came about using a certain instrument, how I go about writing music and what goes through my head when I sing “pump and they pump and they pump”.
I think that’s enough reading for you for now. I’m going to sort out the tabs on my site to better reflect the changes that are coming up. I’m not sure whats coming up in any update, wether it be ideas, track excerpts, song explanations or maybe an actual musical release (not seen one of those in a while 
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