More work today on The Dusty Mirror. I'm keen to get it finished, but the project seems to go on forever, partly due to so many other jobs interfering, and Christmas, and my birthday (and SFXEngine, and framing up the painting for the Grosvenor Open) taking up vital days.
Today I recorded some new guitars for 'Cherries'. It had fake synth guitars before, which were okay, but not a patch on the real thing. The climax here demands an epic feeling. This was (trumpets!) my first guitar part which used more than one string! This appears to be a song about perversions and fetishes, but it was always about food, and about how when young we like sweet things, and grow to like bitter and complex tastes such as olives and rocket and dark green vegetables, which are considered horrible by a child's palette.
After that, a dash around some shops for important Christmas shopping, then more work on SFXEngine, and spending about an hour contributing to a government consultation about AI and copyright. Tonight, another draft of the album and small production changes; really tiny things. I've made the harpsichord louder at the start of the 'Norman Bates' solo, removed the distortion on the vocals for the second chorus of 'Except For The Hatred', and a few other very small tweaks.
I'm aware that all time spent on this steals time from a future project. I must strive to optimise every minute of my life. Onwards we charge.
