Hey friends,
I just thought I’d do a quick post to keep everyone in the loop of thingys. PGEP was released on Monday and I’m pretty happy with the feedback I’m getting so far 🙂 Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded or checked it out! If you’ve yet to download it, use this free button to add it to your cart: [purchase_link id=”109″ style=”button” color=”white” text=”Purchase”]
I was going to try to take the rest of July away from writing and just mentally unwind a little bit and make sure all my ducks are in a row for “chapter two”. I took about 70 hours and then dove back into some tunes, mostly collaborations that with any luck will be released by the end of the year.  I’ve decided that my next EP will be titled The Narrows EP and will probably three or four songs on it. As for a due date, I’m uncertain. There’s a few other collaborative projects that I’m putting most of my energy into.
Most importantly, I’m ramping up for a live show. Poly Gecko has never played live and it does present some challenges but I’m waist-deep in tackling it. Hopefully this ol’ MacBook can handle it. I’ll be running Ableton Live to spit out a few stems while I attempt to play a combination of Maschine, synths, vocals, vocoder live. Oh, and I think I found a really cool drummer who’s willing to do this stuff live with me. That’s a big deal. Not only will it be unreal to have drums coming live from someone’s capable hands but he’ll feed me energy live and it’ll be a way better show overall. I’m also looking at picking up a DMX interface and writing a sick live show to go along with these tunes. I’ve got plenty on my plate entering the later half of 2015.
As always, I’ll include some music that’s entertaining me of late. Solar Echoes by Nigel Stanford is an amazing instrumental guide to why I love electronic music: nothin’ but ear candy. Meridian EP by Zola Blood has also caught my attention. The group reminds me of Tremors by SOHN. Super fat synths, really spacious songs and beautiful hooky vocals that’ll stick in your head all day, but in a good way. Last by certainly not least, Transition Roads by Ominar. You know when an album starts with the lyric “Like a candle strike, we are the perfect match” that it’s going to be amazing. Every single song from this album is really great but my favourite has to be Distance. This is my favourite album to come out of Halifax in a little while. Ominar calls herself Dream Pop and it is most certainly that. It’s super chill and I urge you to take a listen for yourself.
Until later,
Ryan