Finalised the writing to Back When It All Began today. The vocals remain. The timing and generaly melody and mood is all over the place so it will need a bit of rehearsal and playing back to work out where the words fit.
Then I finalised the production to Always In The Morning. The vocals are epic, going from quiet a reflective to power-ballad. I wanted the effect of an 'ordinary person' sitting on his bed, the curtains closed but glowing with sun, and the words seem to have this effect. I may try another take, but these will do. The single takes of Out of Date and Be My Jesus always sound better than songs that have lots of takes - I think the very process of comparison of two nearly-identical things lends itself to a sort of craziness. I'm always aware that time spent perfecting, polishing, finalising anything steals time from other projects, and is often self-deceptive because the factor that gains our attention can sometimes stop us noticing glaring errors elsewhere.
The album is nearly done. Then, its artwork, recording the old SY-85 music (I will probably never release this publicly, but I would, at least, like a recording of it for the future rather than have it lost forever).
Music and the Neorenassiance exhibition will probably be my main focus until March when Neorenassiance ends. I must do my best, work my hardest and fastest to make to most of this precious time. Today, I feel that my artistic life from now on will be music and not at all painting.
