Thursday 20 August 2015

E.P. DIARY PT. 1

Yesterday I wrote two songs. Well, technically I wrote one song, and finished another that I started about a year ago.



On Thursday morning I decided to play around on the cheap Fender acoustic I bought for busking last summer, and as I was noodling around, songs came out!

There are a couple of reasons this is important. 

1. I haven't had the music 'bug' for around 2 years. Prolonged writer's block and lack of motivation or inspiration resulted in me more or less putting music on the back burner for a long time. Two new songs isn't exactly opening the floodgates, but today I made plans to write, and writing happened. That's a major step forward from where I've been at musically the last couple years.

2. Most importantly, these two songs, along with a couple more that I haven't yet recorded (and one more I plan to get finished very soon) , mean I'm looking at recording again, so the decision has been made today that  a new E.P. is officially on the way in the coming months. To keep things ticking over quick, I'm planning to keep these recordings stripped back with minimal instrumentation (we'll see how that works out!).

As things progress, I'll do my best to document as much as I can via my facebook and twitter pages, but I'll be keeping a diary right here on my much neglected blog. Keep an eye out :)

Al
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