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Album 9 is now online.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/stormcellar23

We will probably press a limited run of CD's. Maybe. 

It will be up on itunes soon but for now you can get the files directly from CD baby.

Here's one of the songs from the album, in full, featuring the ****ing amazing Rob Dixon on Sax. 

Getting an album out has a raft of logistics and bard codes and filling forms and such.

Many details.

Thanks to Rosie & Elsa for their help getting the last bits done.

So yeah we're done.

I both happy to be complete and bummed to be done. It's also interesting to me that I wasn't in a hurry to put the dang thing out. Well, sort of. Once we had it down, I was able to listen to it, so really, job done. Releasing it was purely optional. 

Yeah I know my logic is quite contrarian and as I reflect, I do dig sharing the stuff.

With a few weekends off, I have had a chance to do some video work and I wanted to note how impressed I am with a free version of Da Vinci Resolve. I should be able to crank out a clip with it shortly and I am just blown away by how much good stuff they've put in a free version. It's entirely useful. There's a decent learning curve but wow.

Each year the tools get better, you can do more. It's a great time to be making stuff.

Album 9. Am I feeling reflective? You bet. I've been listening to Album 10. I like the fact that it took doing album 10 to finish album 9. that's totally nuts.

Not only that but I got a bit more patient yesterday and stopped cursing the computer and learned this new software.

We offer positive action in perilous times.

Defiance, in deed.

I'm not sure if we 'finished' or whether the song just ground me down into submission. I think we finished it.

It was an issue. Once something is on the album, it's there forever, and may make the difference between us going 'OMG NOO! quick change track' or 'yeah, that's all right'.

I'm also not sure whether what we came up with is a good solution, or merely acceptable. After weeks of trying and failing, 'acceptable' starts to look Good!

Ye gods.

Oh, for the record, if anyone tries to decipher the stuff in Feels To Win; don't. The sounds are meaningful in some way, as they're from band talking in between takes of the 10th album, in the Dome at Skywatch, and I can say there's at least a pun in it, but not necessarily a very good one. I could explain it but, meh. Somehow it's suitable. 

Needing to start album 10 in order to finish album 9? That's very us, innit? I mean, good manners don't cost nuffink, eh?

Yeah. We're probably just straight up doing a bit of 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and why not. It's half a century since that thing came out. Maybe it's ok to show a little genetic mental heritage.

That said, it means...Logistics. Art's done. When AJ is done mastering, we're good to go. Defiance is just about ready. Meanwhile I am watching and listening to tracks from the 5D project and enjoying it very much. The vibe from it is just what I am up for right now. 

I was synchronizing the takes between Camera Audio and the Stereo Pair, dragged the file, dropped it and NAILED IT.

More luck than skills, normally it needs a nudge. I was so proud. A fine moment. Yeah celebrate the little things. 

I am digging the sound and I feel a bit selfish cos it's taking us a while to get stuff to a 'release' stage and a few cellar dwellers have already been asking WTF dude.

Yeah sorry about that. We're able to have a high output rate because: Internet + Worldwide System/State Changes. But it takes a bit of tweaking before the thing gets out into the wild.

Tonight we're scheduled to try and figure out this last teeny little bit before we release Defiance.

Meanwhile, I get to synchronize more takes and then fret over which combo of audio and video is best. I reckon the 5D project is going to take it's own time, and that's as it should my plan is to start sharing the work in progress with Cellar Dwellers, if I can get the rest of the crew to vote on it. I'll see how I go. I just think some of the sounds we're working on are incredibly stress reducing and I think we could all do with a bit of that right now.

Yeah I'm going to go play Take 3 again and see if I think it's better than take 2.

Saint Bob, we seek to learn from you. See I've been hanging out in the dark recesses of the web and it's shaping my consciousness. I now hail Bob Ross as a signifcant Zen Master.

Teach us Bob.

A few of the crew plus cellar dweller Astronaut Sam went to on a Vivid cruise, had some taco and then I got to come home and listen to takes from Coonabarrabran.

I love it.

As I listen to the stuff in the Dome, I can hear what's bugging lynchy. I think the vibrations set the mikes tapping. there's definitely some reaction to the Djembe, the vox are too far back and some of the mandolin is a bit ragged.

I still love it.

Doesn't mean we won't do some more recording, mess with it, try again. 

But I get to listen to this stuff as we tweak it.

We've been talking about experimenting and I think we're gonna have a crack at sharing the development process with the Fellow Cellar Dwellers. More on that after I get a chance to chill for a bit.