Yesterday, created some folders for annual photos. Deb and I print our photo memories each year as a long term record but sorting these out can be a chore. Now I'll do this throughout the year.
Then did more work on a new song called Daytime Teevee which I sketched out. It has a simple march rhythm, and uses Casio-style instruments. Here are the words so far:
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
My life feels long
It lasts for ever
You make it fly
You kill the pain of why
And in my chair
I pass the days
The pointless years
I love you through my tears
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
Daytime Teevee
With you I fly
Beyond this world
Beyond this room
Of dust and broken light
And I escape
Into your dreams
For I have none
For I have none
This follows on, in visual terms, from the 'Parents in the Walls' song, and 'Fear is Everywhere' seems a logical song to follow, as it begins with audio from a 1950s television clip. Much of Daytime Teevee is complete already, the production is deliberately simple.
The evening of an indigestible meal has led to a night of agonising pain once more, and drinking about 4 litres of water, all little more than my usual IBS, an irrational flare-up of self-attack by my immune system.
Emubands have added a new £90-per-year tier, plus unlimited uploads to its services. As with other distributors, this means that the music isn't permanent, but taken down when the annual payment stops; presumably to stop registering, uploading lots of music, then unsubscribing. I wouldn't expect many people to do that however, as any record company would require a long term relationship. One can pay £20 per release with or without a subscription to leave music there forever, so music there without an ongoing payment to process royalties must happen, but ironically not for those who do pay regularly. At this stage it makes their costs vs. services about on-par with Distrokid.
I'm feeling a overwhemed at the task of remastering all 50 or so of my albums for this re-release process. Might this continue forever? Must I stop at some point? I had aimed to re-work a few older vocal albums, up until We Robot, that was the first I think was good enough in balancing and mastering terms. Now, I have the chance to re-work everything back to 2002, and it's certain that some albums like The Flatspace Soundtrack, and the many computer albums like The Twelve Seasons would benefit from rebalancing and better mastering and limiting. The Golden Age was the first to use the Gothic Limiter, We Robot the better Cathedral Limiter. Before this albums were either much quieter (reduced to avoid clipping, like Remembrance Service) or excessively clipped like the old The End And The Beginning.
I need a long term plan here.
