Ready to Move On

 I had yet another fairly productive weekend and I'm happy to report that I'm pretty much down to only 6 tasks left on my agenda for updates/fixes/additions to the "jazz machine" album.  Admittedly, one of those tasks is fairly large (redoing the drums on "Tonight...") but on the flipside another of those tasks is extremely small.  I'm thinking I'll have the album completely wrapped up next weekend but I can say, as of this moment, the album is "together", meaning that all the main melodies, lines, riffs, etc., have now been placed.  I'm basically now in repair and fix mode and quickly moving towards mixing mode.  I guess you could say the album is already finished since it now sounds like an actual album and it's what I'd call listenable.

I'm giving myself one month to mix it and then I'll hand it over to someone for mastering.  At the same time, I need to sit down and comb through who knows how many photos and try to piece together some sort of album artwork.  I usually do that long before this step but I just haven't stumbled upon anything up until now that really bowled me over or seemed appropriate.

Once the "jazz machine" fixes are complete, my next task is to finish/fix the last couple of items for the "Mirror Land" EP which has been greatly neglected once again for many months.  I pretty much know exactly what I need to do so it's just a matter of carving out the time.  Everything else for that EP is ready to go.

Here's my guess at what will be happening for the remainder of the year:  "Mirror Land" will actually be released first, probably only by a few weeks, and then "Jazz Machine" will be released.  I'm immediately going to start working on finishing up the "Wrecking Ball" album (my more or less Neil Young and Crazy Horse sounding album) and then trying to tinker once again with the "Elvis Fish Redux" album which also needs a bit more work here and there.  If life treats me well, all four of these products should be completed in 2021 and may even be released by EOY.  If I can somehow push myself and/or get really fortunate, I also need to get back to the long abandoned Defrost Nixon album which really needs to be completed and released within the next year as well.  I guess in short I have my work cut out for me but I'll do what I can.

In the meantime, if anyone has any photos that they've taken that speak to the words "evening" or "I miss you", please contact me!