The Orange Line: Time

I'll update you on the recent (and very seldom) goings-on with me and my music. Of late, I've had so many other things happening in my life, it is incredibly difficult to get any time to record anything for 'The Orange Line'. The art work for the album theme has been easily created. I am very happy with this and I believe it will reflect well on the music.

I am having great difficulty getting both the time, and the quality right, for creating the music. Spare time is difficult to come by; quality is difficult to produce in such a short space of time. For instance, any recent small windows of opportunity are ruined by the fact that I can not find the sound for the guitar that I want. I scan over the effects I have on the pedal. Record small samples to see how they sound, and each time, they sound horrific or miles away from what I want. I'm struggling with this at the moment, but I'm hoping it will fall into place. This was a similar problem with 'Anonymous' in the beginning too. I do see 'The Orange Line' taking a few years to record and produce however, due to restraints on time and because I want this to be perfect.

In terms of song writing, the songs are all there anyway. Most written between the age of 15 and 18, the songs are all from old cassette tapes (see at soundcloud: cassette tapes from 1999 and more cassette tapes). This means I don't need to find the time to write a whole bunch of new songs, which can be difficult too. Some of these old songs are still really good, in my opinion. Simplier songs, at simplier times. I recently worked out 'A Story of a Wall' and 'All the Time'. It was brilliant to work them out again, and here them now. Such a difference. I can actually keep in key when I sing now, so the songs sounds so much better. I am so eager to hear a finished version of any of these songs.

I have no idea what half the songs are even about anymore. There are also so many songs that I never recorded and so cannot remember how they go. One song in particular that I remember writing when I was about 15, was called 'Vigilantes and Anarchy'. I do not remember even how it goes, but remember when I use to play it I thought it was brilliant. I am lucky I have the cassette tapes of the recordings I have. I want to make a great album. To hear these songs the way they were intended.

If any progress is made, I will upate here, but this project will take time.

Watch this space,
Wullae