Everything is starting to come together again. I usually have so many projects ongoing that this sort of thing is inevitable and happens a few times a year.
Here, for example, is a short list of what has transpired in the last month:
Finished mixing the new I Heart Lung album, Interoceans.
Drove out to master it with Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering in Phoenix, Arizona.
Toured the West Coast with I Heart Lung and Sounds Are Active label-mates, ellul.
Took some photos of the tour and posted them on Flickr.
Recorded five new compositions with I Heart Lung for a 16mm video project with Jonathan Dueck.
Drove 19 hours straight home from Portland, Oregon to Long Beach, California. Stopped in San Francisco to drop off ellul, picked up some In-N-Out and then kept on trucking.
Started reading an interesting Steely Dan biography written by British author Brian Sweet.
Also started Yelping.
Mixed down and mastered The Widow Babies forthcoming album, The Mike Watt EP.
Then mixed it down again. Gotta master again.
Filled in over at Spud! for a few days. Worked 23 hours in 48 hours.
Spent a day filming a few interesting on location live performances with I Heart Lung and Sean Carnage.
Soon I will be finishing up an album with singer/songwriter Steve Gerstein. Then I will start mixing down the recordings from the first couple of sessions I had with Liz Janes and the band at the Compound a few months ago.
Then I will be jumping into the studio with LA-based progressive instrumental band Charts and Maps and will try to get I Heart Lung into the studio to record our side of the “Ecstatic Duos” series being released by Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions.
All the while I will be working on finishing the score for an aforementioned video game project with game designer Nifflas Nygren.
I need to have my electric guitar intonated too.
