I’m on vacation this week, so music (or blogging) hasn’t been at the foreground of my thoughts. However I did decide it would probably be prudent to post an update on the solo album I’m working on, under the name of Static Light, that I am hoping to release sometime this summer.
To be quite honest, about midway through April I started to get frustrated with the project as my initial deadline of April 18th passed by. I had been reworking the songs to no end and I just couldn’t get them to sound exactly how I wanted them to. So I shelved the project for a while and instead focused my efforts on my band, Lifting Shadows, and my as-of-now-unnamed black metal project.
Last last week I listened through the first four tracks of the album with fresh ears as I hadn’t listened to them for almost two months. I was pleasantly surprised. They sounded much better then I had remembered! My excitement for the project instantaneously jumped quite a few notches. The reason for my frustration a couple months ago is because I was to focused on getting them to sound exactly like I pictured it in my mind, and now that I was just listening to it for pleasure, I realized they were fine the way they are.
With the exception of one little guitar line, the first 10-12 minutes are completely done (recording, mixing, etc.) The rest of the album isn’t in such as good shape, and I still have some hard work to do, but I”m 100% completely positively sure that I will have the album done and released by the time I go back to school in early September. That’s a promise, and I intend to keep it!
I have realistic expectations. Outside of friends and family, I don’t expect more than a couple people to listen to anything I put out on the internet. Simply put, I have zero advertising. Nil. I’m uploading it to last.fm and some torrent sites, but outside of that, it’s nothing but pure luck if someone listens to it. Among those who do end up listening to it, I don’t expect a very positive reaction either. But I’m totally cool with that. I’m recording this mostly for me. I’m experimenting with both composition and recording, and just finishing this is all the satisfaction I will need. If someone else enjoys it, well, that’s just an added bonus. That being said I do believe the music is accessible enough that someone will be able to at least draw some pleasure from it. Here is the probably final tracklisting.
- Dawn, Pt. I: A Sample of Passing Wind
- Watching Leaves Fall
- I Lost the Sky (Pt. I)
- I Lost the Sky (Pt. II)
- Dawn, Pt. II: Awakening
- Dusk
- Flash of Colors
- First Turn
- Dawn, Pt. III: Last Memory
- Like Tears
- Bottom, Flat, Dead
- Pale Dreams
- Dawn, Pt. IV: Free
