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Our cable television. Photo by Kirsten Berlie.
I hope you had a great weekend. I’ve been buzzing as a result of the strides that we’re making with Legs Give Out and with other beginnings. I feel very happy about the small parts that are floating around, the melodies, the moods. There’s a nice atmosphere with the writing sessions, we’re moving around quite seamlessly between different songs, different parts of songs, taking turns with new ideas and directions. It feels like the old days of In A Quiet World where we’d have three or four songs on the go, each feeling fresh and unworn, coming up with new nuances until the very end.
We’ve been talking with Amazing Factory about video stuff, which is generally very exciting. I can’t say too much now. I know, I know. You’ll be seeing some new video material this upcoming month almost certainly. Not entirely sure about the format, but it’s looking like a bunch of little ones and then something surprising/interesting.
The zygote has been created. See you in nine months. Give or take.
Photo by Kirsten Berlie.
Taking shifts upstairs in the room with the computer and the instruments, dreaming up pieces and then attempting to translate them into something that makes sense for everyone. That’s the hard part. The translation. Cayne has these beautiful, almost classical, melodies that sound amazing just by themselves. We could write an entire album with these pieces, but it needs to go further. The songs need to take shape. So we’re attempting that. The growing pains between conception and formation. Dream and reality. Blueprint and construction.
It’s all “stay up until 4 and wake up at noon, write music, sometimes listen to music and then always deliberately forget everything about it because you never intend to be plagiarist”. There’s Donkey Kong Country 3 on Super Nintendo in there somewhere, too. And movies.
Photo by Kirsten Berlie.
Working on a very tentative Legs Give Out. Cayne showed me a few parts that he wrote, either for that or another song and I am excited about this direction. Went to bed thinking about, woke up thinking about it. I can’t say too much about the sound yet but there’s a lot of undiscovered terrain that we’ve been treading, at the very least undiscovered for us. I’ve always believed in the if we’ve done it before, let’s not do it again which may come back to bite us if people actually do prefer hearing the same thing from us. Let’s hope not.
There’s still a long way to go, maybe longer than ever, but the road is being built. And with good intentions. How does the saying go?
