2008 news
Sunday, 19th October 2008 - second coming
Hello there everyone. Yet again I've taken a while to give you some news but as always I've been busy on lots of things. Well the live thing seems that yet again is getting very difficult to find musicians available and that are willing to play my stuff, I'll keep looking and we'll see what the future is reserving us.
I promised a little time ago that I will give you some details regarding the second album and here they are. So the album will be titled "The sounds of silence". It will be a concept album with 5 seperate tracks one of which an epic 30 min app. song. The songs are:
1 - Selfishness (part I)
2 - Let me out of here
3 - Fireflies (instrumental)
4 - Victims of love
5 - Trance of sorrow (epic)
Trance of sorrow is the epic song which will have 8 parts with their respective titles. So this is basically the track list but I cannot promise that it will be in this particular order. So hopefully I will continue to work on it to try to release it on time, until then. BYE!
Sunday, 31st August 2008 - No worries, I'm still alive!
Hello everybody. I apologized in May for not giving you some news what should I do this time considering I took so long! Well you know, you can imagine summer on our beautiful island can be amazing if you try to have fun and since I have two little angels I tried to dedicate a lot of my time with them on summer activities. I didn't forgot what I was doing though, and that little break gave me the idea of a little change in the CD. I decided to remove a track which wasn't exactly in the same subject as the others. I'm saying so because the second album will be a concept one although with seperate tracks, and adding a ballad which in my opinion is very radio friendly and suites more the subject I took. I decided this for 2 reasons, the lyrics and to give the listener a soft break because there's a lot of chewing!
This August myself and friend Trevor started on the bass parts although there's alot left to do but hey, we started. What is left is heavy guitars, some clean guitars, maybe I'm adding some acoustic on the ballad, bass and vocals and of course mixing. Well the target date is Spring 2009 hopefully but in my situation I can't guarantee anything. I have to mention another sponsor Turu of B&G Hardware store, thanks pal I aprreciate it!
Ok, in the near future I will give you the track list of the album and maybe the title as well and hopefully news in shorter break periods, till then BYE!
Monday, 19th May 2008 - Hi there
Hello there, everyone. I apologize for not giving you some news lately but I was terribly busy on lot of things. For sure is that I finally finished my Ibanez RG450 with 2 Dimarzio Pickups, one neck the Breed DP165 and the bridge a Super Distortion F-spaced DP100. It sounds awesome! The breed one screams loud especially on solos and since this next album will have lots of guitars......oops! Well things are progressing slow but well on the recording.
I have to mention that this time I'm going in a studio for the mixing, no more messing around at my home studio so I guess I will have a much better reviews on this next CD since it will have better music and better production, well time will tell. All of this will be possible with the help of some sponsors and so far I have to mention 2 in particular, Charlie at "Jet Express" and Saviour of "Fort Blocks Ltd." those 2 guys helped immediately without any hesitations at all, thanks alot guys! Hopefully in the near future something else will come, we'll see, till then see ya!
Tuesday, 4th March 2008 - Just to let you know!
Hello everyone. It's been more than a month since my last few notes. Well things are progressing really well for the second album. What can I tell you so far is that there will be 5 tracks again but it will be longer than the debut even if you add "All over again - radio edit" to the first one, this new one is longer. But anyway that's not important after all. What matters is that I have 4 tracks with all drums and keys ready and few touches to the epic tune of the CD which will be the longest one and then ready to record all guitars, bass and vocals. Hopefully it will not take so tremendousely long time to record third party parts!
A few months ago I told you that another local magazine had to publish a review about me and my music. Well it happened and the magazine was "Grip" a sort of journal printed by Malta International Airport to be distributed all over the island, at the Airport and even abroad. It was the December issue and I'm sorry I didn't mention it before but beleive me there was nothing new to read about, it was quite an old recycled review to say exactly! Anyway, NO COMMENTS! At least I had some sort of exposure.
In the meantime I'm fixing up my axes. I had refurbished the custom guitar totally new look and especially armed it with a Di Marzio DP100 Super distortion at the bridge and I left my Kent Armstrong pick up at the neck. I tried it and it sounds awesome. I have some down tunes this time and it surely fits the job. My other axe, the Ibanez RG450, I'm fitting 2 new pick ups as well. I purchase another DP100 Super distortion F-spaced version and I'm trying to find a DP193 Air Norton for the neck. Don't worry I'll find one by the recording sessions.
Ok that's all for now, I'll get to you soon in the near future with more news, Bye for now!
Saturday, 26th January 2008 - Let's rock 2008!
Hi there to all of you. The new year started off and I'm slowly but surely continuing the efforts of my second album. A lot of work is already done. The new things that will be on this album is that this time I will leave the bass section to a great friend of mine and bass player Trevor Catania, (ex - Different Light, nothing to do with Different Strings) and another great vocalist. No there will not be Alan Mayo again. He's a great vocalist but I want to change. I don't want to mention him yet but it's quite confirmed. I started off the year giving music lessons again since it's quite expensive getting in a pro-studio for mixing so at least I pay bills...lol!
OK that's all for today, I'll get to you again with some more exciting news, bye!
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