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Ben hard at work.

I think today may have been the final studio day for SC11.

The last chance for mixes comes at this final review point, then it's off to mastering.

This marks almost two years of production, or more correctly, continues 11 years of making stuff.

For SC10 and 11 we've taken lots of risks. Some paid off, some were more like...

Today, I went in expecting to fix some vocals by doing some drop ins, turns out it was just a matter of mixing. I have a tendancy to minimise the 'S' at the end of sentences. It's like a built in De-Esser. Sorted.

A few tweaks from Mr Wizard, a few bits of back and forth and. oh.

Wow.

We're there?

Now we listen to the finals.

Ok, so our erstwhile virtual manager Roger did a press release about the song we did with Danny in KC to help get out the vote.

Apparently it got picked up by hundred of publications, blogs and websites world wide.

Also: Texas.

Including Cleveland. Now you're talking (what up Fam!) http://www.cleveland19.com/story/39015317/musician-danny-cox-and-band-stormcellar-turns-we-the-people-into-a-voting-anthem

And it case you aren't in Cleveland or  Punxsutawney (WOOT! Hey Phil!)

...here's the Viyda Again.

 Also, you our dear American Cellar Dwellers - a reminder from Danny & your friends in the stormcellar.

Look at the groupings and WAV heights. Can't promise it's In Tune or that I remembered the words, but, ta daaaa....

In a excellent moment of nominative determinism, this was the vocal for 'Minor Miracle'. I was still scratching out words until just before recording time, and it has been almost 3 months since it was up to Final Mix Where Are The Vocals? 

A minor miracle indeed.

With this, principal vocal recording is completed. There's still one more song I'd like to try and have a crack at. As it's 'optional' it may/may not make it onto this album.

We'll see.

If I can get it done before Ben finishes mixing and the guys make any final tweaks, well and good, otherwise, we move onwards and SC11 is.....

Patience is required.

Not telling you how to be

Just telling you what we see

This guy is out of his mind

Can’t do anything

Until my book deal is signed

The Attention wars gave way to the Information Wars.

Humanity got a kick start into a new system when the tech rolled to the next level of Round Rock. The Wheel Mark X.

Stand aside Gutenberg Bible, printing press. The Primates on Earth have unleashed a new connected virtual assisted mind. They don’t know what it does.

The collapse of ages into micro decades. A year is three. Welcome to the future. Things have sped up.

A middle aged humanity starts to see the universe flying by at faster speeds.

Each pulse of change comes faster until the transition phase leads to somewhere beyond the event horizon. Hooray for Oz.

From 1990-2000, from 2000-2008 and then from 2008-2016. The ages of maturity like rings in the internet tree.

When we as a band came into being, it was the beginning of the attention wars

LIKE ME LOOK AT ME SUBSCRIBE LIKE LIKE

If people behaved like that in your living room, you’d ask them to stop.

Infancy. Make noise. Need attention.

By 2016 the next outcome of the change was the Information War.

We’re deep in it now.

What is real? What is true?

Facts come back.

Opinions burn.

Write’em down

Only facts return

We are what we think. We own it, good and bad.

To borrow from the bumper stickers, we’re stalked by the wolf of our nature that we feed.

Surrounding yourself with thought is to be influenced by it, to be as the planets are, gravity bound and compelled.

The first step is awareness.

Personal power is the right to choose which of these orbits you follow.

The very words you read get loaded into your mind, they prime you, like a magician’s trick.

You are safer, more powerful and more able to do something about your circumstances than you may be aware.

 Anyone who wants to tell you otherwise starts from a basis of diminishing your own power.

Guitar day proceeded expeditiously. Oh no. I am the last element we're waiting on.

Yikes.

Almost.

We've been in more or less constant production for 11 years. Safe Harbour & Rogue state have been a project since 2016. it's worthwhile noting the milestones as they pass by.

With luck, Rogue State is on course for finishing, mastering, and then a pressing with Safe Harbour fairly shortly.

We're in the phase of Chopping Wood and Carrying water, as friend of the band, Dr Rock, says.

The videos require more luck than planning (and they require plenty of planning), we'll be waiting for good conditions to have a crack at them and as these projects finish, the opportunity arises to do some new things.

The forecast is a few fun items over the next few months, drop by and see what we're up to.

In keeping with that moment of good vibes to be found down in the stormcellar, congratulations to D & M on their upcoming nuptials and to cellar dwellers N. who spent their anniversary with us.

Grateful every time we get to go do it. Come out and join us when you feel it and it suits.