New Demos
When I recently posted that I wanted to finish one more demo before Christmas, I ended up writing three. I had an idea for a fourth, but there simply wasn't enough time.
One of the greatest banes of being a songwriter is that my best ideas often come to me when I'm actually outside of the house, most likely when I'm on my way to/from work and my iPod has just run out of batteries. Since I've had my infamous third gen iPod for around three years now, that's becoming a more common occurrence. So with the wonders of technology and mass storage on micro-cards, I now have an archive of song ideas on my mobile phone. Looking like an idiot, singing drum, bass, vocal ideas down the phone and playing them back to myself with the sounds of cars driving past in the background. But it's been an amazing way of maintaining some enthusiasm, and I've written a lot of ideas as a result.
So the songs I have been working on are as follows (songs are working titles, may not be the final names, as usual):
Lovers and Politicians: A big-beat heavy track, sounds like something from the Prodigy. Always a good thing. Still not really enough to make a whole song over it, though. It'll go one of two ways - It'll end up being one of the star tracks on the album, or just go stale and be left to rot.
Superficial Innocence: Generically rock sounding, fixated on a groove. It sounds a bit tacky at the moment with all the MIDI going on, but when I use my imagination for some real drums and guitars, I reckon this one will work very well.
Too Late: The most gloomy song I've written since 'A Place Called Nowhere'. I wrote it one evening, and touched on vocal ideas the following evening. It's very simplistic piano structure and long haunting pads (to be followed with guitars). A bit typical for Angelchrome, and perhaps it needs more work in this department, but perhaps it just works this way. I was really hesitant to play it to anyone because the lyrics are very personal, but so far it has had the biggest response. If I can focus the gloom into this one song, hopefully everything else won't be so affected.
So there you have it. I'm so procrastinating from Andy East's industry assignment. I'm currently in Somerset (on my mother's lovely new iMac) and here for the week. I deliberately haven't taken any of my demos with me. I need to get them out of my head. Even recording some guitars for 'It Felt Like Forever' with Mark Lord the other night (he did a fantastic job, btw) over a bottle of wine at my place. I don't want to play them to my friends of family at this stage.
No more music for me, time to relax. Time to get Andy's work done. Time see my friends and family. And as much as I humbug, time for Christmas.
One of the greatest banes of being a songwriter is that my best ideas often come to me when I'm actually outside of the house, most likely when I'm on my way to/from work and my iPod has just run out of batteries. Since I've had my infamous third gen iPod for around three years now, that's becoming a more common occurrence. So with the wonders of technology and mass storage on micro-cards, I now have an archive of song ideas on my mobile phone. Looking like an idiot, singing drum, bass, vocal ideas down the phone and playing them back to myself with the sounds of cars driving past in the background. But it's been an amazing way of maintaining some enthusiasm, and I've written a lot of ideas as a result.
So the songs I have been working on are as follows (songs are working titles, may not be the final names, as usual):
Lovers and Politicians: A big-beat heavy track, sounds like something from the Prodigy. Always a good thing. Still not really enough to make a whole song over it, though. It'll go one of two ways - It'll end up being one of the star tracks on the album, or just go stale and be left to rot.
Superficial Innocence: Generically rock sounding, fixated on a groove. It sounds a bit tacky at the moment with all the MIDI going on, but when I use my imagination for some real drums and guitars, I reckon this one will work very well.
Too Late: The most gloomy song I've written since 'A Place Called Nowhere'. I wrote it one evening, and touched on vocal ideas the following evening. It's very simplistic piano structure and long haunting pads (to be followed with guitars). A bit typical for Angelchrome, and perhaps it needs more work in this department, but perhaps it just works this way. I was really hesitant to play it to anyone because the lyrics are very personal, but so far it has had the biggest response. If I can focus the gloom into this one song, hopefully everything else won't be so affected.
So there you have it. I'm so procrastinating from Andy East's industry assignment. I'm currently in Somerset (on my mother's lovely new iMac) and here for the week. I deliberately haven't taken any of my demos with me. I need to get them out of my head. Even recording some guitars for 'It Felt Like Forever' with Mark Lord the other night (he did a fantastic job, btw) over a bottle of wine at my place. I don't want to play them to my friends of family at this stage.
No more music for me, time to relax. Time to get Andy's work done. Time see my friends and family. And as much as I humbug, time for Christmas.
posted by Angelchrome at 2:17 pm
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