So what do you do when you finally finish the process of making an album, when it's out in the world, you sit back and say “ok, this really is finished”? You start making another one I suppose, right?
I had my interview with Mick. It was fun. I will put it out on my podcast, Whatever Comes Next. I was thinking that I might turn the episode into something more conceptual — maybe I'll add some music, or spoken word, some collages. I don't know what exactly, but it could be interesting.
If Sara has any of the videos ready by the time I want to release the episode, it would make sense to have them there too.
And now onto the next endeavour.
The next album will be collaboration number two with Existent / Nonexistent. We've agreed we're going to do it. In the past days and weeks I've been warming my brain up to doing creative writing again. In parallel I've been making a conscious effort to escape from my phone. It's a scourge and a drain of ideas and inspiration.
Tentatively, I think I can say I'm starting to feel some positive result as I live a little bit more in the world around me and not this insidious little void. No offence Ms Mobile Phone.
So partly to push myself into action I messaged E/Ne yesterday to say I'd have some material ready to send them by the end of the year.
I'm not going to fuss myself with trying to plan the whole thing out conceptually track by track (as I previously had planned). I'm going to take it one track at a time and see how it evolves.
I have a couple of actual “songs”, but now I'm not sure if I want them to be part of this project, or save them. No, actually I remember now, I've decided I will include them. Why? They're connected to the past, so I want to have everything that ties to my time in Germany and Czechia completed — if for nothing more than the psychological peace of being able to draw a line and say my life is moving on.
So with all that being the case the album will be Devil Girl and Her Latin Mushrooms. That'll be one of the songs. And what else? TBD.