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Art started, polishing, outsourcing and starting

I can tell when an album is getting closer. We start assembling a look book.

I'm not gonna explain this one, but there ya go.

So we are basically in 3 modes: 1 group of tracks are getting final polish before official 'review'.

The next group are out with Ben and AJ, and that's in their time mode.

That brings us to the Problem Song group and the New Easier More Appealing group. Given the ups and downs of weather, COVID and post COVID effects on time frames, this remains an uncollapsed quantum state. Could be we have a break though on the tough ones, in which case, whammo.

Or new stuff comes together fast - that happens - see Chase the Dragon for example, or onward traveller.

Some stuff takes longer to cook :)

Can't say. This one has mutated so hard it's impressive in its inability to be categorised. Work continues though, that's as it should be.

Live gigs too. New stuff. Are we even gonna play some of this weirder stuff live? Where are we gonna get a trumpet player from. And the sitar?

So many questions. Your card, lobster.

almost time for a listening party

I took the opportunity to put all the tracks into a play list and have a listen through. That's a good sign.

Some stuff is still pretty bare bones tho, and it would be famous last words to predict how long it will take to complete the last stuff.

AJ is working on 2, Ben is working on 1, I have 4 at 'mixed-or-close-to-it' stage and 2 finished, with three more in 'likely to arrive soon' state.

Word got out. People have noticed we're back in the studio. Oops. I figured we have been hiding in plain sight for so long that no one was looking :)

This is the most diverse album since Curious Assembly. Good to see we haven't settled down yet.

I am way too cautious to put a time frame on it. It's taken a while. Yeah.

Meanwhile imma do some more cheap videos.

We're trying to get the next eps of downtime back online. Covid, weather, etc etc, has not been easy to organise. Oh and big ups to Cellar Dweller P. for his riotous success. Nice to know we have fans in high places.

New Shows for 2022

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, but we have shows in the wild. With people. As long as....fingers crossed right?

Town Hall Hotel Newtown
30th July 2022: 10:00 pm - 1:00 am

SydBluesSoc Birthday Party Lazybones Marrickville
6th August 2022: time tba

Marrickville Bowlo
28th August 2022: time tba

Town Hall Hotel Newtown
7th October 2022: 10:00 pm - 1:00 am

Miss Celie's
8th October 2022: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

5th Annual CRAB festival COOMA 9-3.

Stay healthy out there.

Stormcellar - Midnight in Memphis

stormcellar music vids since 2008

Doncha love spreadsheets? imma make some Uber Cheap vids for some of the songs, as part of a post covid budgeting cutback program and also for some artsy reasons I wanted to do some bare bones stuff. Short story long, I'm not sure whether it matters what the clip is, anymore. People are using Youtube as a jukebox. seems more important to have the songs up than to do big clips we can't afford. It's cheap to write an expensive idea. Expensive to make it.

As I started thinking about the idea, i figured I'd look at how many specific music videos I've made since we started. Turns out it's 43.

Brave with your Heart Pt 2. (Dome)

Brave with your heart, pt 5 (Valiente Corazon)

Chalk Angels

Chase the Dragon (to Be with you tonight)

Cheap Hotel

Country Radio

CROSSFIRE

Dirty Work (COVER)

Don't Get Around Much

Don't Take It So Hard

Down & Dirty

Downward Bound

Eight Days After

Even In a Lifetime

Everywhere Feels Like Home - Ecstatic Yeti Mix

Everywhere Feels Like Home - Strings Theme

Feel so blue

goin downtown

Hard Times

Heavy Weather

Hidden Hands

I'm better off without you

Little Big Bird

Looking Glass

Lucky Streak

one in a million

Onward Traveller

Pirouette

Pirouette (Acoustic)

Put on your sunhat, Sweet Adeline

Rock River

Roscoes Boogie

Sail Away

Sail Away (Cypher Remix Rev 7)

Shoshana

Slipping Through These Blues

Suit Yourself

Swamp Monster

Texas Rosie

Upside of down

We The People

Yamanote Line (Hi Stylin Women)

You can't push me away

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37CC7FAACBC1DDF5

Well organised recording studio? oh how we missed you

Fr fr no cap, as they say on the web these days.

Whilst being grateful to have been able to work on the new stuff during COVID using the gear we had available, oh my goodness was it nice to go into a well appointed studio again. Monitoring? check. Setup ease? check. Even a new drum kit. Theo was pretty stoked with the Gretsch kit Ben has, he made happy drummer noises.

I felt like I needed some guidance on final vocals, so I was glad to see Ben. Even gladder when he got a ping on for Strange Pleasures and volunteered to mix it. Really? WOOOOOT!

Another one off my list.

We're due to meet and review the current batch. There are 3-4 that still need some work, the rest are moving towards 'we've done as much as we know how to do' status.

Some new shows coming up. Things are going to the New Normal. Whatever that is.

With some luck and continued perseverance, we may see the next album within a few months.

To support the completion of our 13th studio release, donate here: paypal.me/stormcellarband I wanna add strings :)

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