I can sort of see the chink of light at the end of the album producing tunnel. I very nearly have 10 finished tracks. It was 9 last week, but I had an unexpected flash of inspiration whilst laid up with the flu.
Whilst messing around with the most excellent Spotify, I found myself checking out a certain Mr Blackmore’s Renaissance widdlings on ‘Under a Violet Moon’. A seed was sown, so to speak and I found myself spending the next 10hours going Renaissance minstrel crazy.
By the end of the evening I’d not only taught myself to play a scale on my daughter’s long discarded Descant recorder, I’d recorded my own version of Pastimes with Good Company complete with haunting cathedral rhubarb, recorder harmony, and blackmore’esqe nylon strung tinkerings. He was a good writer, that Henry VIII, it’s a banging toon, and also serves as the perfect preamble to In the Sea as it also starts off in Dm. So there we have it. In the Sea, now becomes ‘Return to the Sea’ Part 1 and 2.
Here’s the running order:
1. Who will you Serve
2. Sins of the Father
3. Evolution Railroad
4. A Day on the Moon
5. Return to the Sea -Part.1 (Pastime with Good Company)
6. Return to the Sea -Part.2 (Forget the Earth)
7. Flowers in my Hair
8. La Iglesia
9. Ministry of Failure
10. The Dark that Follows the Light
I’m hoping to finish recording tonight then onto mixing. Maybe I’ll be ready for release end of October?
