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Development tracks from greenhouse project 3 available to patrons of the band

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After a long time resisting we've joined the subscriuption thing i mean god help us but anyway.

Once again, it's another experiment. 2024 seems to be the year of sharing.

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Ok so I NEVER share this stage of making the song outside the band. This is sort of stage 2.

Stage 1 was the idea, capturing it on my phone. This is an idea from some time back. These things take time to mature.
Soooo this is super super super early and as a patron of the band you're gonna get to see this one go through the full run of stages - from guide track, to recorded track, to mixed track, to released track. As promised, when I start to share, you get it too, just like the cellar fellers do, with 1 exception - I won't share the raw first guides, it'd be like offering uncooked foodstuffs. tasting along the way is fine but let's not do the ick. lol.

Ok so - here we are with a 'guide track - Stage 2 is where I have enough lyric and basic stuff to put it into 'the machine' as we call it.

This is the stage at which we give it to the other players and say heeyyyyy what about this?

Now some reminders - things change a lot.
Things take longer than we expect

Things take less time than we expect
We really arent sure what to expect, that's why it's so much fun.

Lyrics change, melody changes, new parts, new stuff.

So - no complaining when you get demo love. As a Patron, you call always listen to the early demo's or maybe even get your own mix :)

this one will have to be recorded again from scratch which is a risk, cos capturing the energy is tricky, but that's the job. If the song's good enough it'll make it.

I am glad to see that there is a fine crop coming up in greenhouse 3, I expect a few more, in their own time, at their own rate.

greenhouse 3 divergent sandbox and other things.

This instrumental thing is taking some time. Learning curve. Practise curve.

Like a community college pottery course, some early works may be a little lopsided.

It’s been fun though and I have many nice things to say about it, which I will save until the marketing department needs some copy.

While searching through the back catalogue for instrumentals and unreleased stuff I took the opportunity to go through the guide tracks directory and pulled some stuff out.

Adding that to the existing greenhouses, Greenhouse 1 from Jan 2022 which yielded Basilisk, and Greenhouse 2 from Jan 2024 that has yielded some singles, we had a few sessions of reviewing it and consolidating it into Greenhouse 3 – Divergent Sandbox.

Rather than shy away from the variations in styles, we’re simply letting them build up and then they can go to one of a few different projects, which we defined by album concept names:

Untitled Sturmkeller album
‘Weather on other planets’
‘juggernaut’
‘An album named Bob’
‘bucket of blues’
‘café mikey’

Which of these gets finished is…to be discovered. They’re landmarks of thought rather than plans 😊

On very much the plus side though, we’re back at it. A little organization seems to be just the ticket.

No new guides to share yet for our Patreons, but getting close. There’s no hurry but it’s always nice to get a good vibe from the now.

Greenhouse project 3 - Divergent Sandbox

Are we Blues? Country? Folk? Contemporary? Eurovision entrants? That was my favourite quote of the week from someone listening to Basilisk. The answer is? We're trans-genre! Don't pronoun my styles bro.

This week we gathered all the plants from Greenhouse 1 and 2 and took them to the new Greenhouse 3 where they are free to mutate into their next forms.

It's starting to look like we may have a series of EP's coming up :) or heck i just don't know, but we've decided to embrace the variability, here in the safe space of the stormcellar.

stormcellar at the Orana hotel, Blacksmiths May 25th

working on an instrumental album, sharing the process via patreon

I went and gathered all our instrumentals plus some other stuff, been meaning to for a while.

The fellers are reviewing it to see what stays or goes and the order.

Then I'll do some additional mastering for the stuff that was never released!

Support the band and the process via patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/instrumental-104283028?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

It means you get to hear the work in progress and it helps us out :)

A lot of brilliant instrumental stuff from Michael Rosenthal and Bill Williams, Emeritus members :), plus Michael Coggins, Mr Wizard and the gang, Bukhuchulun Gaburged, Dr Geoff Gartner and all the stuff from Everywhere feels like home, Rut Santamaria de Llorente and her mates on Brave with your heart, Marcus Holden on strings, Michael Hawke on sax. Even at first assembly its a ripper.

It's been a feature of our work to encourage all of the members to do their own stuff, that's made our work all the richer. There's lots of room in the stormcellar to try stuff :) Long may it continue.