Done! Very happy with this now, and looking forward to getting the album itself done sometime soon. I went through quite a few changes to get here, though, and I admit it took a bit longer than I wanted. First I redid the vocal tracks entirely, nailing the main part in a few tries, and [...]

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Taking shape. I removed the “waka” synth, as expected, and am pretty happy with my efforts so far.  It’s fun to see these projects take shape, to start recognizing in the outside world a thing you previously carried only in your head.
In this take, I polished some of the guitar licks and then laid down [...]

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This is the opening stage of the next song on the forthcoming album. All of these songs were written in the last eight years, and though I never actually intended to record them, I’ve got a pretty solid idea of what they should sound like. However, since I wrote these all these songs on guitar, [...]

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Like Proverbs, this song is slated for the new album. I wrote it this summer in Russia, literally watching emerald green shooting stars in the summer sky.
It took me a while to get the feel of the song right; I’m almost always trying to play things too fast, and I think this song really has [...]

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This was my first attempt at recording Proverbs, not long after having written it, and several months before rehearsing it with Morgan and Nando. Actually, I enjoy how the song is taking shape now. It has become much slower and gentler, and has turned into more of a contemplative song – and less of the [...]

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