Procrastination can be fun, but I think I’m going to do it later.
Oh yeah, did you see what I just did?
Sigh…
So I spent the better part of Sunday sorting out my extensive back-catalogue of noodlings and half-finished compositions. And there’s a lot of good to be found there. I also got some T3E work done, so for any band-mates who might be reading this and gearing up to crack the whip, there’s no need 
But yes – potential-filled noodlings. What they really need is to be finished and released into the wild. I’ve left them in limbo, waiting to be completed for some nebulous future project, but it’s the strangest thing – I think the weight of the unfinished work has actually served as an impediment to generating new stuff. I tend to find myself scratching around looking at the raw material I’ve already got, trying to cobble it together into some sort of cohesive whole, and that’s not a mindset that’s conducive to new ideas.
Does that make sense?
So for better or worse, I’m going to work through them and finish them. One after the other, using whatever ideas come to mind at the time. Not too heavy on the self-censoring, on deciding that that doesn’t sound like “me”. Patently it does sound like me, as I just wrote it, so I’m going to let it be what it wants to be. Song done – out you go – next!
I’ll be setting up a new url and all the usual social networking detritus for this deluge of material, just incase anyone’s interested enough to want to hear it (or even – hope against hope – pay me some money for it). More news on that one soon. In the meantime though, here are a couple of tantalisingly brief soundclips from Sunday’s excursion into sound.
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