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After a reasonable amount of thought, I'm going with "Every Season Passes" as a title for my third album.

Like the other two, it's a phrase lifted from one of the songs ("Catch the Moon", based on a N. K. Jemisin book) and also has a little in-joke humour related to the ten years I've been "working" on it. Since seven of the other thirteen songs explicitly relate to change of some kind, it seems appropriate from that point of view too.

I don't imagine that an image to represent seasonal change should be too hard to find or create.

(So, I guess my previous acronyms of RotS and MUA will be joined by...ESP?)
philkmills: Phil and guitar (Default)
There are days when I feel as if I've done very little except uncover more of my musical ignorance. And the strange part of that is, I mostly enjoy it...more stuff to learn!

The current episode in this series was initiated by a suggestion that one song for CD3 could benefit from the addition of horns. Since I have some nice horn samples among my digital toys, I looked into it and discovered that I didn't know: pitch ranges for various instruments, articulation options, or genre differences for tone and phrasing.

This is only one example; something similar happens with each new subject I touch on: arranging, production, sound design, mixing in general, specifics of individual mixing tools....

Luckily, YouTube is my friend, even if time isn't.
philkmills: Phil and guitar (Default)
I'm at a point with my third album where having a name for it is becoming important. Even if it's only to be a Bandcamp release, I'll want appropriate "cover" art. The disk folder where it all resides is known as CD3 and I hope that's not the best idea I can come up with.

My approach with previous albums has been to take a phrase out of one of its songs that feels representative of the collection, but nothing like that has seemed right yet. For me, naming an album with the title of one of the tracks doesn't appeal much, drawing too much attention to a single song.

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