A Glimmering Gloom EP Has Been Written!

It’s finished. The last song was written last night, (Sleeping Beauty), and I have to say I’m really really happy about how it’s going to sound. I can’t even compare it to my last release (A Fence Of Beaks, go buy it at Raw Records. NOW!) because it’s on a completely different level. The structure is still simple and basic, but that’s how I like it – beacuse it’s actually very complex in the lyrics and emotions and it balances out nicely. And then there is a few tracks that are much more complex in instrumentation (to keep Greenie happy) and in those songs the lyrics are more basic chants.

The track listing, as it now stands:

1. Investigation
2. High Crash Area
3. Sleeping Beauty
4. Can You Hear Me?
5. Victim Of A Miracle
6. Confession

And the tracks that didn’t make it:

1. Wellington Hobbit
2. Lullaby
3. Awake, Alone, Afraid
4. Complications
5. Well After All

Now it’s written, I have to start preparing for recordings starting February 5th. I hope to have the main guitars/vocals/piano down by the 19th, and then I can start adding the extras.

If You’re DIYing, Then DIFF!

DIFF being “Do It For Free”. You are looking at my Recording Studio – Lucid Effect Productions to be exact. Being the stallion male I am, I have constructed it with the few tools I have. It is made up of the following components:

- Laptop, running Windows XP and the opensource recording software Audacity.
- Singstar Microphone.
- CD rack acting as Mic stand.
- Star Wars Episode : The Phantom Menace (Hard Cover Edition) acting as base to Mic stand.

The only issue is the mic is (predictably) low standard and doesn’t pick up much. But apart from that, it functions perfectly well Because of the mic crappiness I’m just going to do demos on this, unless some gets me a good mic and I can do EP stuff.

So get me a good mic and I am sweet.