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The Tracks
House Of Mirrors
The Shadows
The Light
Somewhere
Into The Woods
Lost
The Track
Rise Again
The Crossroads
The Mountain
May 2024
The songs for the new, full, concept album have all been written, however we
recently realised that we had too many songs for one CD but not enough for
two; so Elaine has written a “back to real life” song and we plan to add 2 of the
EP songs to finish off - as bonus - but appropriate - tracks.
Our process is for Elaine and Keith to demo map the songs at Keith’s music
studio and a number of them are mapped already. This allows us to get the
tempos we want and provides a guide track. During the demo mapping stage,
quite a bit of composition and arrangement goes on. The band are shown the
demos and we pick some numbers to rehearse together, for performing live.
The next stage is for Paul to lay down his drum tracks, in his bespoke recording
studio (shown above) on the numbers we have rehearsed and fixed
arrangements for. Keith lays down his bass tracks in his own studio and sends
them to Paul to add to the master recording. We have a number of the new
album tracks already at this stage.
The next steps are to get the rest of the band over to Paul’s recording studio to
record their instruments and vocals.
Album Progress
Demo Mapping
Elaine went over to Paul’s and recorded her guitar on the
numbers we have fixed arrangements for and will soon be
recording her vocals too. She has also been over to Keith’s to do
more arranging, composing and demo mapping on the rest of
the songs, which are in various stages of readiness. Keith has
been experimenting and composing some fantastic
soundscapes, including a fabulous Stuckfish generated gong
sound!
Elaine is progressing with artwork for the album too, with
concept drawings of the Stuckfish. See the album story for the
drawing. She had discussions with Philip Stuckey, from the band
as to the nature of this magical creature and he advised her
that a sort of fish version of a unicorn would be appropriate.
The Stuckfish has become a very significant part of the story
with some amazing powers! Take a look and have a read here.
The team will now have good demo versions of the songs
involving the four other prog rock bands and their magical
creatures, so and they are having a listen and adding some of
their own musical uniqueness to the numbers to help really
bring their magical characters to life! In order in the story we
have:-
Song - Magical Creature - Band
Into The Woods - Treebeard - Haze
Lost - Spriggan - Spriggan Mist
The Pass - Gryphon - Gryphon
The Lake - Stuckfish - Stuckfish
Recording
The Pass
Find My Way
The Lake
The Way Home
BONUS TRACKS:-
A New Day
The Machine
All About The Money
On April 24th we recorded Brian
Gulland, of Gryphon, playing
bassoon and recorders on our song
featuring the Gryphon, called “The
pass”. Click the photo to see him
being recorded in Paul’s Studio…
News Extra
The Tracks
House Of Mirrors
The Shadows
The Light
Somewhere
Into The Woods
Lost
The Track
Rise Again
The Crossroads
The Mountain
The Pass
Find My Way
The Lake
The Way Home
BONUS TRACKS:
A New Day
The Machine
All About The Money
Album Progress
May 2024
The songs for the new, full, concept album
have all been written. We recently decided
that it would be too long for one CD but too
short for a double CD, so Elaine has written a
“back to real life” song and 2 of the EP tracks
dealing with stresses in life will also be added.
Our process is for Elaine and Keith to demo
map the songs at Keith’s music studio and a
number of them are mapped already. This
allows us to get the tempos we want and
provides a guide track. During the demo
mapping stage, quite a bit of composition and
arrangement goes on. The band are shown
the demos and we pick some numbers to
rehearse together, for performing live.
The next stage is for Paul to lay down his
drum tracks, in his bespoke recording studio
(shown above) on the numbers we have
rehearsed and fixed arrangements for. Keith
lays down his bass tracks in his own studio
and sends them to Paul to add to the master
recording. We have a number of the new
album tracks already at this stage.
The next steps are to get the rest of the band
over to Paul’s recording studio to record their
instruments and vocals.
Demo Mapping
Elaine went over to record her guitar on the numbers we have fixed arrangements for
and will soon be recording her vocals. She will also be heading over to Keith’s to do
more arranging, composing and demo mapping on the rest of the songs, which are in
various stages of readiness. Keith has been experimenting and composing some
fantastic soundscapes, including a fabulous, Stuckfish generated gong sound!
Elaine is progressing with artwork for the album too, with concept drawings for the
Stuckfish. See the album story for the latest drawing. She had discussions with Philip
Stuckey, from the band as to the nature of this magical creature and he advised her
that a sort of fish version of a unicorn would be appropriate. The Stuckfish has
become a very significant part of the story, with some amazing powers. Take a look
and have a read here.
The team now have good demo versions of the songs involving the four, other prog
rock bands and their magical creatures, who are having a listen and preparing to add
some of their own musical uniqueness to their numbers, to really bring their magical
creatures to life! In order, in the story, we have:-
Song - Magical Creature - Band
Into The Woods - Treebeard - Haze
Lost - Spriggan - Spriggan Mist
The Pass - Gryphon - Gryphon
The Lake - Stuckfish - Stuckfish
Recording
On April 24th, we recorded Brian Gulland from
Gryphon, playing bassoon and recorders for our
song. featuring the Gryphon, called “The Pass”.
Click Brian’s photo to see him being recorded.
