I was in Crete for two weeks. While I was there I did some writing. Yes, I couldn't think of a more inventive title.
So prior to this trip I had five stories/vocal performances written and recorded and I'd done a first couple of passes of mixing on each one. Total run time: 18min. All for the as-yet-unnamed collaboration with Augurio Drama. My idea is to have 45min of material. So I still needed to write at least another 5 or 6 stories/vocal things (depending on the lengths).
I was hoping that during the trip in Crete inspiration would strike as I lay in the sun and roasted. And it did.
Over the course of a few days, as I lay by the hotel pool pouring sweat, I wrote 6 new texts. I already had a whole bank of audio tracks to choose from that Augurio had provided. Having figured out what soundtracks would fit for each I've now got 46min of material. Whenever I get some time I can start doing this next phase of recordings.
Provisional track titles are as follows:
Lose Control - a parody of a terrible Pop/House track that was puncturing my ears from the hotel stereo. Naturally I twisted the idea of the original song to make it disturbing.
Over the Sides - a little story about being sucked into the void.
A Number - kind of self explanatory, though probably not really.
All in a Day's Work - came out of an idea I had from interviewing Eugene S. Robinson recently about his memoir. He mentioned a story about a guy giving up and dying out in the swamps of Florida. I took it and ran.
The Optimist - various thoughts from a dismembered corpse.
On This Day - at this point I figured I just needed one more and I was drained after “The Optimist” which took me several days to crack. I went back through various past writings and found a story I still thought was interesting about the sun not rising one day and how the world adapted.
And voila, we have an album. Just have to record it (as I said) and complete the not insignificant task of mixing the fucking. Stay tuned.