Album cover & song titles

The album will most probably be available at the turn of February/March 2014 and will contain 10 new songs. The first "single"should be released already around this Christmas! The song titles are (in alphabetical order):

- Awesun (Towards the Saints)
- Departure
- An Endless Night
- In Circles So Cold
- Into the Unknown
- Jasmine
- Mayhem
- Naughty
- No Longer Afraid
- Space Romance

Shaping up

::: Recording diary - entry #2 :::

Another month is gone. November was quite a fruitful one. 5 songs more or less done. The songs with "heavy" production are in the final stage of post-production. Now I am going to focus on more intimate guitar and ukulele tunes. I am quite curious how it all will fit together. On one hand the album will contain production-rich tracks with lots of instruments, on the other hand I am about to record some simple melancholic ballads with a minimum of extra sounds and instruments. I'm a bit afraid the new album could eventually be quite schizophrenic. All I know is that I've had enough of the complexity. Doing everything on your own takes a lot of time and effort ... and the results are never warranted. I have a feeling I've done what I could. I certainly don't want to repeat myself musically. I'm excited to move on to the intimate part of the album. February/March 2014 now looks as a reasonable date for recording closure. At the beginning of the next year I'd like to take a few days off to polish everything.

In addition to the recording I also managed one small acoustic performance in November. After nearly 4 years I appeared on stage again. It was also the first time my new songs were introduced to a handful of present people. It was rather kind of a public rehearsal. I would like to schedule some more live gigs, starting probably by the upcoming spring.

Last but not least in the past weeks I managed to collect a few of my friends and together we tried to take some new promo pictures and maybe even some video. It should appear as time goes on on my web profiles (especially FB). A little preview already today (see the photo - taken by Hanz Blok). 

INTO THE UNKNOWN

Alright! It's time for some update. I've been - once again - quite quiet lately. Well, it took me more than a year to re-appear. Frankly, I was and still am not sure whether I want to continue writing this blog. In this world of Twitter and Facebook this seems to be rather an outdated way of communication.

But as I am too lazy to start a new Twitter account and I find writing longer texts on FB painful, I have decided to give this place one last try. 

Hard to believe when I say I am still working on the new material. Yeah, it has taken me ages already ... but this time it is really beginning to shape up. Some songs are almost finished and others are to be recorded soon. 

To make a long story short - the new album "INTO THE UNKNOWN" will be realeased song by song during this winter ... and this is my recording diary where I will try to keep the handful of possibly interested folks informed.

::: Recording Diary - entry #1 :::

Okay, at this time I have cca 3 songs more or less done. The rest, about 6-7 songs, are either still semifinished or not in-process at all. I stay positive and believe I will meet the winter deadline (I need some deadline to work efficiently). It seems I could release first single sometime around Christmas time. So far the new material sounds "fresh". I try to mix electronic music with live instruments. The new songs will mostly be guitar- and ukulele-based, with midi sounds to create the right atmosphere. I am also going to use some movie samples as well as some orchestral instruments (film music has been a big influence on me in recent years). The focal point/theme of the new album is universe so you can expect some mysterious, mostly melancholic ditties. 

.:V:.