We are all in Ottawa this week, working on stuff. Dareck is sitting on the couch over there doing some finishing touches to his drawings, and Im typing away about some ideas, and thinking about an approach for a new EP. Dareck’s stuck the story board for the graphic novella on the wall, and it looks very close to being done. The book ties into the album, and visualizes the peaks and valleys for a few songs, most notably, “the plan”. Kirk is going to come over later with the cello, and we are going to arrange these songs on the album for a three piece performance. We are without drums and bass for the moment, but we are going to use this arrangement to our advantage, and get things as tight as we can as a smaller group.
We’ve also done a fair bit to figure out an approach for our Vinyl/novella/CD release event, which we are planning to have happen in november. We hope that this isn’t a typical CD release party where people show up after getting nagged by the band to come to a location, where they are asked to sit and watch a band they’ve never seen before, and then are “encouraged” during and afterward to buy their CD. Lame. That’s like making plans to move in on the first date. It’s unsolicited and desperate, just like the time I sacrificed brain cells by wearing a walmart tuxedo while stocking hardline paper products on shelves. We get that we are an absolutely new act, in the process of presenting our work in an environment saturated with new work. That calls for something else entirely…
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