Hey friends,
It’s now only 10 days until I release my debut EP, PGEP. It’s kinda weird because it feels like I’ve always been working to release something, anything. And now that it’s finally done and nearly ready to be released, I’m still rather shocked. That being said, I have plenty of upcoming musical adventures to keep myself occupied – and you entertained, of course. For each of the songs on PGEP, I made a short teaser video. So far I’ve uploaded one of Forrest, Num3rology, 82 and Infancy <See below>. This Sunday I shall upload the final one, Only. Only is probably my favourite song on PGEP, but ask me tomorrow and maybe it’ll be a different one…
After PGEP, I’m going to piece together a live set. I’m aiming for about 30:00 to start and play a few shows and see how I feel. I really have very little experience playing live, let alone by myself so it’s a bit nerve-wracking. I’ll get over it though, this is what I want to do. I think my live setup will consist of triggering stems from Ableton Live using my APC40 MkII, then using Maschine and a Roland JDXI live for synths and drums. And of course, an SM7B for vocals. It’s challenging to do everything live off-the-floor so I’ll employ Ableton to spit out some basic stems and I’ll play and loop overtop. Oh, also, a lot of lights and lasers.
Alongside the work for a live set, I’ll start work on my follow-up EP, tentatively titled Thresholds. I really haven’t decided many details but I have a rough picture of what songs should be on it. One is called Utifi and you can find a demo of it on my SoundCloud. Listening back to that now, woah, it’s come a long way. There’s about 5 other songs in contention to be on Thresholds but I’ll narrow it down more as it draws near.
I’ve been working a lot on my music theory as of late and I’m learning a lot. A year ago, I knew shit all when it came to the language of music. I knew a major scale on my bass and that was about it. I’m finding my writing is improving immensely as I spend more time learning the theory behind it.
I’ll check back in on Monday I imagine after the album is mixed and mastered by my good friend Luke Batiot. I’ll probably post a comparison of my songs pre-mix and post-mix and you’ll be able to tell why a good mixing engineer is worth every penny.
A long slow goodbye,
Ryan