What Was Old Will Be New Again...

So we've got a new and exciting plan!

Me and Tugrul have been talking for a few weeks about re-recording some of the demos, the best ones, for many reasons.

One: The original ones I did served their purpose, but they sound terrible and un-developed.
Two: It will give us both a chance to re-learn the songs and re-vamp them, and kill time over the fall/winter effectively.
Three: It could theoretically cut our time spent in Ontario in half.
Four: It's going to be a lot of fun
Five: I will learn more as a musician

After sending the demos to Daniel, we've all agreed that it will be a very good idea to do this, which made me very happy.

So now over the next couple of weeks we narrow it down to 15 songs, from 36.
and October 1st, we start to record! (again)

I was wondering to myself if I had wasted a lot of time doing all of the original demos myself to begin with...
and I've decided it was a needed stepping stone to make this album all it can be. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for it, and it gave me a great idea as to where I want to direct this album, and it was a useful tool for Tugrul and Daniel in that way as well....
and anyone else involved.

And it will be great to go back and listen to years from now....
just to see where I started.

So, it looks like its time to start over again, and I never thought i'd be excited to say that...but this time I've got a good friend and a great musician helping out, it will keep me from getting lost in my head.

I hope to have some pictures and posts for you all in the coming weeks/months.....

Listening, Learning...

Tonight, me and the parents listened to some of the demos, the new set.

We were talking through little bits and things I could change, not my most favourite thing, because most of it I agree with and wasn't able to change...but atleast It means I'm on the right track, in my head anyways.

My dad was saying how some of the riffs or the vocal lines resemble other songs that we previously listened to, normally this would be something i'd be afraid to hear.
But in this case it was a very big compliment, because I told him I'd set out to write this album that way.
So the songs run together, resemble and play off eachother, so when you listen to it you know its On The White Shores, and it's one big piece of art, instead of just a collection of songs.

I also told him that this album will only sound like itself, and none that follow it.

So if you connect yourself with one song, you'll be able to lose yourself in the whole album....like a place you can hide in or visit when ever you want, and each song will give you variations on one continous feeling, like a journey to a place that is what ever you make of it, as deep or as shallow as you want it to be.

I really hope it comes off the way I've wanted it to.
I'm just really proud that 2 years ago I came up with the idea, and still to this day it appears to be coming out the way I wanted it to, just more mature and refined, and hopefully better.

I'll be sending the demos to Daniel tomorrow, then we'll narrow the songs down and continue from there. It's very exciting, I'm just nervous to see which songs he picks, and to see how much we agree on and etc.

On a side note....

I'm writing the next 2 albums.
They're going to be just the same as they are different.
And I have both a clear and distorted vision of what they are going to be.
It's early I know, but atleast this way I'm ahead of the game.

Plus if I stop working I'm afraid I'll go insane......