News Extra
The Tracks
House Of Mirrors
The Shadows
The Light
Somewhere
Into The Woods
Lost
The Track
Rise Again
The Crossroads
The Mountain
May 2025
The Latest:
The recording has now been completed and the mixing is well underway, with 8
out of the 15 new tracks ready for mastering. Elaine has completed all the
album artwork, which includes detailed, full colour images of the 4 mythical prog
characters. Promotional reels and a very interesting podcast have been
produced. We will be choosing several tracks to release as singles. We are also
preparing a Crowdfunding web site to launch, to allow us to raise the funds we
will need to manufacture the physical albums. As part of that, we are also
creating some special merch and other items to offer in return for higher value
donations… We will be fixing the actual, proposed album release date soon…
Project Production:
Our recording process is for Elaine and Keith to demo map the songs at Keith’s
music studio. 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 arranging and performing them 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.
Album Progress
Demo Mapping
Elaine worked with Keith on arranging, composing and demo
mapping all the songs. Keith experimented with sound design to
handle some of the magical elements of our story’s sounds. He
has composed some fantastic soundscapes, including a fabulous
Stuckfish generated gong sound!
Elaine had discussions with Philip Stuckey, from “Stuckfish” as
to the nature of the “Stuckfish” 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 gave good demo versions of the songs involving the
four other prog rock bands and their magical creatures, to their
respective bands, in July 2024. Each band listened to these and
has added 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:-
New Day
The Machine
All About The Money
On April 24th ‘24 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:
New Day
The Machine
All About The Money
Album Progress
May 2025
The Latest:
The recording is completed and the mixing is
well underway, with 8 out of the 15 tracks
ready for mastering. Elaine has completed the
album artwork, which includes detailed, full
colour images of the 4 mythical prog
characters. Promotional reels and a very
interesting podcast have been produced.
Several tracks are being chosen to release as
singles. We are also preparing a
Crowdfunding website to launch to allow us to
raise the funds we will need to create the
physical albums. As part of that, we are also
creating some special merch and other items
to offer in return for higher value donations…
We will be fixing the actual, proposed album
release date soon…
Project Production:
Our recording process is for Elaine and Keith
to demo map the songs at Keith’s music
studio. 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 and deciding arrangements.
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.
Demo Mapping
Elaine and Keith worked together on the arranging, composing and demo mapping of
the songs. Keith experimented with and composed some fantastic soundscapes,
including a fabulous, Stuckfish generated gong sound!
See the album story for the early drawing ideas. She had discussions with Philip
Stuckey, from “Stuckfish” as to the nature of the “Stuckfish” 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 four, other prog rock bands with album songs involving their magical creatures,
added 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
On April 24th ‘24, 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.
The next steps are to get the rest
of the band over to Paul’s
recording studio to record their
instruments and vocals.
