The Another Violet Night CDs have arrived. I prefer cello-wrap to cello-bags, but bags are better than cling-wrap. The printing is brilliant, I love the look of these.
Started by re-recording the (new) backing vocals for 'Will You Be My Snowflake', and made many tiny changes to this throughout the day. I also transcribed the music for 'Heaven's Day' as I, unusually, improvised the melody.
Later, I began the remastering project for Tree Of Keys, replacing any off-the-shelf samples with my own. It's a strange irony that I now need a whale-song sample, when I had, in the past, recorded some whale-song via Locus Sonus, then discarded it. No matter here, the strange sound I've used instead sounds better anyway. I thought, a few nights ago, that if Kate Bush's last album had been Aerial, her canon would have begun with whale-song and ended with birdsong.
I printed the sheet music for the 'Compose Yourself' event in two weeks time, to note the chords. For live performance, I often use a scaled-back backing track with room of one lead instrument. For 'More' I'll play it all on piano. I've removed the drums from the backing to 'Incomplete Version of the Writer' because pre-recorded drums tend to sound wrong. I must remember to make an album without drums.
What aim for this? Music has, very rapidly crashed to the level of poetry regarding commercial appeal, but like poetry its art has perhaps been elevated by this. Poetry and music are both in renaissance, not decline, and with rebirth comes transformation.
Still, artists need money. I must, at least, remaster the albums that need to be re-released, and improve the next in line. In painting, I have the Castle Park Arts Centre paintings to frame (pending their acceptance), and work on something for the Nantwich Museum Open Competition.
