An absolutely manic but productive day, creating iTunes Digital Booklets for the following albums:
Letters From A Square Spoon, The Anatomy Of Emotions, Christmas Smells, Lou Salome Empathy With Daisies, Heart Of Snow, Remembrance Service, War Is Over, Apocalypse Of Clowns, Animalia, Synaesthesia, Jabberwocky, The Myth Of Sisyphus, The Infinite Forest, Nightfood, Testing The Delicates, A Walk In The Countryside, Who Is Afraid/She Floats, Time Falling, Tree Of Keys, and Music Of Poetic Objects.
Most use the existing CD album art, but that being square means that pages frequently needed some sort of adjustment. Any text needed repositioning or re-rendering in the correct size, and some albums or singles now include lyrics. Many of the singles (Jabberwocky, Who Is Afraid/She Floats etc.) needed new pages creating as those typically have only one cover image; a booklet requires at least 4 pages.
I'm now spiral-eyed and very headachey after 11-hours work on these.
I can now say that 'there are less than 20 albums to go'.
Some, like the Marius Fate ones, don't need doing as I'll have to re-master and re-release that album (again) under my name. At that point, though, I'll need to redo the artwork and make a new booklet. Why do all of this at all? I am reminded how pretty the artwork is, and how important it is; how much I've done on these over the years. These albums, like everything I do must be the best I can do. Yes, many albums have sold very few copies (some perhaps none at all, digital sales are so ephemeral; I still aim to press many more CD copies), but I must target and assume ultimate success. For the past 5 years, my music has been in a hibernation phase. I've released lots of music, but not wildly publicised anything, I knew and know that things were growing, refining, improving; an essential part of the learning process. This is still is progress, but soon I will be ready and brilliant. Not quite yet, but soon and inevitably.
Some highlights from the 120 or so images I've been working on:
