Out of the frying pan...

Playlist
Mozart - String Quintets
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Concrete
Vivaldi - Concertos for, variously, Bassoon, Flute, Guitar, Oboe

Barely a couple of days after shelving the "Concrete" project to concentrate on the real job in hand of recording the follow-up to 2005's "Deeperdown" and 2003's "Anotherhappyday", tonight I resurrected the album as a forty minute, mainly electronic, work (it includes just one acoustic song now)...

I still see it as a further step on the way to the next song-based album and a companion to "The Acoustic Ersatzreal" which I put out last summer...

The recordings of the five new songs I was going to include are not up to scratch and the original intention of three separate EPs showcasing those songs got a little out of hand of course as the project grew until each EP contained two acoustic songs, an electronic remix of one of those songs, a small piece of electronica and a 14 minute mix of a version of Elgar's "Nimrod", which I created late last year...

I ended up with almost 90 minutes of music...

So, to create a workable album, I've now removed the acoustic material (with the exception of the one song which was not new), left the three electronic reworkings of three of the new songs, upgraded the three short pieces of electronica and chosen one of the three mixes of "Nimrod"...

I've reworked the cover too...



...though the four portraits by Stuart Cobley remain on the inner sleeve...

Other than this work, we watched "Coronation St" and another excellent story from the "Law & Order : Criminal Intent" new series on Channel 5...

Productive...

Though the Executive Producer's input is still sought....

Highlight of the Day : Possible pulling from the frying pan, though it may only be into the fire...