![]() The second half of the year turned into a crazy time for both of us. We had hoped to have the whole album recorded by the end of 2016. But we’re definitely at the point where we listen to the tracks and no longer say “What the hell are we doing?” but “Wow, we did that?” Hopefully you will, too. While we considered working with outside musicians, we did wind up doing everything ourselves - drums, esoteric instruments, you name it - and we are still working all weekend every weekend, plus some time after work during the week when energy and responsibilities allow - at the expense of our gaming, for sure. That’s what we get for running our own website. We’re now going to the individual watchdog sites and asking for new evaluations. Guess there were old issues with WordPress that got us flagged, but after the site was fixed, the flags were never removed. And weirdly, we are working on getting this very website - which is as clean as a whistle - removed from some internet malware blacklists. While that’s happening, Kat is working on album art (which is pretty darned close to done) as well as a few other visual surprises, including new promotional photos. We have a friend representing our biz dev interests, approaching online content producers and distributors about making videos for some of the songs we’ve recorded. That will probably take us a few more weeks, but with so many songs done - the first six sequentially, and now very close to the first eight in order - we’re in good shape as the video pitches get underway. We are each adopting one of those tracks as we build them out, then we’ll swap and finish each other’s work. Now it’s a question of “decorating the tree” (or “hanging meat on the skeleton” if you prefer a different holiday). The remaining two songs were pretty bare as of last weekend, but now have content all the way through to confirm structure, whether it be bass or guide vocal or piano or some mix of the above. Two of those are complete except for relatively minor instrumental additions/changes we have some digital instruments that can be improved or replaced or both, so that needs to happen. We have eight tracks fully complete now, with the ninth in final mix, on the bubble of being approved for release. While we had hoped to have everything squared away and done by the end of February, we are spilling into March - but there’s enough wiggle room in the schedule that it’s not terrible.
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