A full day of work on Heart of Snow, starting with the vocal recording. This went to plan but the song itself needs more work. There are few layered vocals here and the song structure itself is generally rather long and less staccato in mood, so I need to combat this and inject drama. Emotion is contrast. Music should be surprising.
I am perhaps too harsh. Listening to parts of Kate Bush's beloved Hounds of Love album, this compared well immediately afterwards. This is certainly the last track of the project which will be about 23 minutes long and have 4 main songs and 2 other joining parts: a meandering guitar solo after Away in Her Manger, and a piano epilogue set to some (actual) seabirds recorded live yesterday evening.
I will keep working. At least this has been a first full day of music work, and most of the vocals on the album/EP are now complete.
The Neorenaissance book is also published today, registered, and 45 copies ordered, my biggest book order since Songs of Life. All a success in that almost all of these copies are pre-sold or pre-allocated, but as the sale price was the print-cost, I've lost money overall. This was as intended, the aim was to make something to benefit the museum, and the poets and my art, of course.
