Summer and Starlight

it has been quite a while.  we have been enjoying summer sunshine and love and water and travels and other countries and all sorts of goodness.  the EP is finished and ready to be purchased by any interested parties.

we’ve been carving out some demo material for our next set of recordings.  kind of using a different approach this time.  the last EP (Goodbye Blue) was done mostly in a straightforward ‘rehearse with the songs, then record with a couple takes until it sounds good, then mix’ kind of way.

this next project is more about attacking things from more angles than just ‘head-on,’ so we have a lot of recordings we’re experimenting and tinkering with and ’shaping’ a bit more than on the previous release, if you will.  i’m pretty excited about how it is coming along, we got some drum tracks laid down on these demos this past weekend.   oh and i’ll be doing the mixes in pro tools 8 rather than logic, and i’m much more fluent in pro tools so that should help things a bit too.  another thing i’m excited about is involving some more people outside of the band in this.

i’ve been spending some time working on ‘booking demos’ and ‘press kits,’ something i never really learned or cared about, until i started wondering why it was so hard to get a decent show once in a while.  now i realize you actually have to send people stuff in order for them to be aware that you exist.  imagine that little tidbit.  so hopefully bookings will pick up a bit, and we’ll be able to increase our span (playing more than just typical Grand Rapids places, etc)…