Ok, allow me to give you the quick-e of the story on this one.

I did this as a part of the NaSoAlMo challenge.. which is a challenge to see if you can create a solo album in a single month. You can check out what other folk’s NaSoAlMo projects here. Interesting stuff.

Now creating a solo album in a month is no easy feat.. the amount of work that can go into one of these things can be crazy.. it often forces you to work in different ways then you might other wise work.. and here in lys much of the value to participating.. In my own case.. I spent a little more then a week of this month in bed, sick.. doing about as much work on my laptop as I could.. 

So, at the end of it.. I feel like it was real accomplishment.. The results I’ve ended up with.. are what I now consider a rough draft. My feeling about it changes daily from “wow this really sucks” to “wow this is really amazing,” and so… well I really want to ask for you’re feed back on what you think of this work.. My plan is to go in and fix the problems I have it with it.. finished what is not really finished, and and add in a few other tracks.. and kinda go from there..

Ok.. enough talk, here’s the the album!:

 [editor’s note.. it looks like imeem won’t let me let you have the music for free… so.. here it is for free on last.fm.] 

So I’m giving the whole thing away for free.. I hope you can dig it… and if you’d like to help support what I’m doing.. turns out you can embed this play on your facebook, myspace.. your blog.. and just about anywhere else… and nothing would be more helpful then you’re sharing.. well.. lol, your feed back comes close!

Ok, so I’ll end this post with a rundown own of what needs to be changed / plan of attack / my personal reactions to it.. track by track.

1.  Yet Another Another Ambient Attempt: Kore was making everything crash.. so I had to go Kore-less.. There’s 3 things to be changed here.. #1 Is to fix drums.. there going through a guitar rig.. and there’s some issues I have with how this works.. and it really changes the ecology of the track when it works right.. #2 There’s some clipping going on.. which sucks.. and #3.. this is universally true of nearly all the tracks.. but what I want to do is put, as much as is possible.. the tracks through my Liquid Mix 16.. which uses dynamic convolution technology to essentially sample various class EQs and Compressors.. which are really great for a certain kind of subtle coloration of the tracks.
2. More Aggressive, Sorta: I’m just not really sure about this track.. 
3. Lets Do Something good, or try to anyway: It’s an experiment.. the field recording stuff was taken the same night as the pictures of the album cover.. One way or another I might like to give this one a little more attention
4. IdkbutIveBeenTold mix: This is maybe my favorite track on the album.. though I’m not sure about the Timpani at the beginning.. it features something like 30 instruments? One of the instruments is a stand in for the vocals.. which will be performed via Cantor.. a vocal synthesizer.. so I have to program the performance for that.. as well as adjust the mix for that.. and it’s not quite finished length wise.. there’s more lyrics that need adding
5. Context: This is a funny one which I meant to make a good deal longer but am sorta fond of as it stands.
6. Seeifwecanworkfaster: Mainly I plan to rip apart the mix on this.. 
7. canwedometal_ mix final: Well.. I need to basically rip out the bass.. or play with that.. the guitars need to be better realized.. I want to put some sorta vocals in there.. the drums ought to be developed more.
8. Super ambient: I don’t know.. it is what it is.
9. experiment: I see this as a first step in a certain direction.. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.. but I like how it functions as a part of the larger album
10. MTFS thing mix Final: Here we have another experiment.. again I’m not sure about it.. not at all.. I think it’s a path I need to go down further before I start getting results I really like.

So yeah.. that’s the album.. I kinda like how it works at the moment.. as a whole.. though I’m not supper in love with any of the individual parts.. but it is sorta cool to have created this inside of a month.. to all of a sudden have all this new work to share.. so I hope you can dig it.. and again, comments would be great.

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