I'm working on a new song. “Song” is the wrong word. I'm working on a spoken word track for the next collaboration. This will be the fourth track in fact. After Industrial State of Mind got finished I jumped enthusiastically into the next project.
But you know how it goes, other things come up. Work. Life. It's definitely not a bad thing that I'm busy. It's like with my Substack writing, if I'm not doing that, then it means I'm getting “real” writing assignments.
The creative outlet is important though.
So I bought this piece of kit. I'm never quite sure what to call it. It's a dinky little keyboard and sampler and now I can't even remember what it's called. It's in the other room and I'm too lazy to check. Anyway, I've played around with it a bit, but it's really just the surface of figuring it out. I'll be able to use it to create electronic music/ sounds. The possibilities are almost endless.
That's dangerous. I remember years ago in Glasgow when I was in my first band: RedSun. I wanted effects pedals for my guitar. What I bought was kind of excessive, this effects unit. There were too many options and I never got the hand of it.
Still, this time round it's not quite the same. There's now the option for me to write and record keyboard parts. That in itself is a great option I didn't have before. Yes, I can go down a rabbit hole for eternity looking for sounds, but that's on me.
So that happened (buying that thing), and I've been working on this new track. Now I remember I already wrote about this next collaboration. The last track was the shouting-in-the-shower one.
What I'm working on started out with a particular idea that's evolved into quite a different thing. I actually started it in Italy, visiting my girlfriend's parents over the Easter weekend. It's become something quite creepy. Well hopefully, creepy is absolutely the aim.
Anyway, I should get that one finished soon and ticked off. After that, I guess I'll need another three or four. Getting a bit ahead of myself I've already started conceptualising my next solo album (for some reason I feel like a wanker writing “my next solo album” but there it is), ‘Devil Girl and Her Latin Mushrooms’.
Two songs are sitting waiting for me and I have an idea for the structure of the album with reference tracks (songs by other bands) corresponding with each track of the album. We'll see how that pans out.
By my own particular self-imposed measure I'm ahead anyway. I want to get out an album a year. That would mean this latest project needs to be out by the end of 2024 and ‘Devil Girl’ in 2025. Plenty of time.