At long last, I have exited the demo and experimentation phase of my creation process, and an actual album (with an actual track list and actual song titles) has now taken shape. I still have a mountain of work to do. Most of the songs are only a minute and a half long right now, so they all still need more work / proper endings. And they all still have incomplete lyrics. And sure, none of them have properly recorded vocals yet. But that's what the rest of 2017 is for.
I really just wanted to let everyone know that it is now, finally, truly underway. I know which songs I'm doing and they're cool. These songs are all just... yeah, cool is the right word. If I had to compare this new album - at this point in its development - to another Cosmicity album, I'd say it most closely resembles "Pure" due to my very specific focus on keeping the arrangements as clean and straightforward as I possibly can.
More news on this coming very soon! Oh, and yes I do already have an album title in mind, but I have learned over the years that I sometimes (often) change my mind about album titles very late in the recording process (does anyone else remember that "Humans May Safely Graze" was supposed to be called "Thank The Maker?"), so I'm keeping that working title quiet for a while longer.
PS - For those of you who were following my experimentation phase in 2016 on social media, I will be finishing 5 of the experiments and demos that I had posted samples of. 3 of them were in the big YouTube mashup (https://youtu.be/nIXFar-C6y0) and are specifically Song Demo 12, Song Demo 8, and Experiment 7. In addition, I'm also finishing Experiment 29B that was posted separately on YouTube, as well as Experiment 6, which was posted on Instagram. Thanks for your feedback on these, everyone!
I really just wanted to let everyone know that it is now, finally, truly underway. I know which songs I'm doing and they're cool. These songs are all just... yeah, cool is the right word. If I had to compare this new album - at this point in its development - to another Cosmicity album, I'd say it most closely resembles "Pure" due to my very specific focus on keeping the arrangements as clean and straightforward as I possibly can.
More news on this coming very soon! Oh, and yes I do already have an album title in mind, but I have learned over the years that I sometimes (often) change my mind about album titles very late in the recording process (does anyone else remember that "Humans May Safely Graze" was supposed to be called "Thank The Maker?"), so I'm keeping that working title quiet for a while longer.
PS - For those of you who were following my experimentation phase in 2016 on social media, I will be finishing 5 of the experiments and demos that I had posted samples of. 3 of them were in the big YouTube mashup (https://youtu.be/nIXFar-C6y0) and are specifically Song Demo 12, Song Demo 8, and Experiment 7. In addition, I'm also finishing Experiment 29B that was posted separately on YouTube, as well as Experiment 6, which was posted on Instagram. Thanks for your feedback on these, everyone!