Minor Update

Just a quick minor update on some going's on's...  First up, I have removed "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" from being visible on my Bandcamp page.  From my understanding, even though I purchased download licenses for the song, it's not able to be "streamed" on the Bandcamp page proper without a separate "performance" license which apparently you can no longer purchase from the various "cover song" licensing sites at a reasonable rate.  Therefore, it just seemed best to make the song unavailable in that medium.  The song is still included in the download version of the album as well as the CD...the downside is that one can't necessarily tell that without reading the small blurbs on the page.  This is so far the only way I've found to be able to restrict a song from streaming on Bandcamp.

I'm now really leaning towards not doing any more cover song versions, mainly because it's such a hassle and has a sometimes semi costly price tag, with the real downer being that the majority of the cost doesn't go to the artist but instead to the website that's the middle man (go figure).  The downside is that I already have a ton of time invested in covers such as  "Two Step" and the whole "It's Raining Elvis Fish!" album so there's no turning back now.  I think I'll be using the same method as mentioned above for "The Effects of Connection" EP, where "Two Step" will not be streamable but will be included in both the download and CD versions.  As for "...Fish!", I'm not sure how I'm going to do that one as of yet.  I was wondering if I could simply have no tracks be streamable and only offer CD's and downloads.  I did a test and it seems like it might be possible but I can't say for sure without literally publishing the album to the site.  It's all very curious.  Provided that works, though, that'll most likely be my approach.

This week I'm prepping not only "As Evening Brings Tears" (the video edit version) but also "The Effects of Connection" and "Two Step" for mastering.  "...Evening..." sounds really great but I decided to tweak the bass just a tad bit more, nothing that'll take more than another pass at the most.  "...Effects..." sounded boomy when I revisited it last night so I'm going to make some minor mod's on that one before moving forward.  Again, I fully expect all three songs to go off for mastering early next week, at the latest.  I will be placing the shortened edited version of "As Evening Brings Tears" on Bandcamp as soon as I get it back and I'd imagine that "The Effects of Connection" EP will be visible on the site in the  next couple of weeks.

My focus is now on getting the "Mirror Land" tracks fully done and then I'm going to start on artwork for these releases as well as prepping the drums for Defrost Nixon.  The "...Fish" mix modifications will probably continue for a little while but there's nothing too heavy left to do.  I'll be working on the track order as soon as this weekend.  At this point, I fully intend to meet my mix deadline of the end of February.

I'm also investigating KickStarter and/or GoFundMe campaigns.  The former seems a bit intense for just me to handle on my own, to be honest, but I might dabble in it...who knows.