Primitives

Yesterday I did another session with Synth.nl (Michel van Osenbruggen) in his Apollo Studio.
Actually there are no sensational details about past evening / night, but resumed: we listened, and we made notes and some adjustments. And it is very nice to know that we more or less still share the same ideas about the direction we want to go into with our project.

In the past weeks I recorded some additional tracks, which Michel integrated into the current mixes. I was very delighted to hear the results of the new versions he has made since our previous session, and it is great to hear the enormous progress the individual tracks have made since the start of our collaboration. When having listened to the tracks after eachother again, it became clear the album is getting shape more and more. Very welcome, because our intention is to create a complete album, and should not just be a collection of tracks.
 
In the meanwhile Michel also did a great job with the preparations of the artwork, and yesterday we also brainstormed about potential track titles. At this moment we have made a selection of nine tracks with a total duration of around 70 minutes, and for now we both agreed about the the album title: "Primitives".

In first instance we set the album release on October 27th, at the E-Live Festival in Oirschot. At this moment it is not yet 100% certain if we are really going to manage this, but we are definitely on the right track. More concrete information should be available by the end of this month, after we have had some more sessions.

Another studio session with Synth.nl

Yesterday I did another very productive and satisfying studio session together with Synth.nl / Michel van Osenbruggen in his Apollo studio.
This time we started listening to all the material which should appear on our forthcoming collaboration album, while making critical notes for changes and adjustments for each of the tracks.
It's nice to find out that we agreed on most of these notes.

One of the tracks seemed not to fit into the whole concept, but we radically changed this one which resulted into a completely different track, which does fit into the project now!
For a large part we have in mind what to do with most of the tracks to get them sound like the way we want.
And we are still struggling with another track. This one still needs a lot of work, but Michel told me everything's gonna be all right, so I will rely on that!:-)

Another session should follow later this month, but for now we devided the tracks to work on seperately in the meanwhile.

At this right moment we have 10 tracks with a total length of 79 minutes to fill the album.
I assume the length will be slightly shortened during the editing process.
All in all the progress of the project is going very well, and although there is still a lot of work to do, we are still on schedule for the release of the album befire the end of the year.
I will keep you posted!