SOTP! State of the Project!

So from the perspective of the blog, February seems like it may have been a pretty inactive month for the MION RB project. Fortunately, looks can be, and in this case, are, decieving. Things are happening on two fronts. On the one hand, I'm in the process of acquiring gear...primarily for the purpose of getting some decent drums recorded, but also because I love new gear. I've got an Alesis Multimix 16 on order, and have seriously been looking at both new keyboards, and also the possibility of an electronic drum kit.

At the same time, I haven't slacked off writing, either. Poseur is, for all intents and purposes, finished. I'll put up a clip of it later tonite, so you can hear a rough version of what it sounds like. (At this point, all of the recordings I'm making are demo recordings, not the real deal yet. I have chord structures for 'My Name is Raul', 'Creation', and 'Trashcan Blues' and hope to record demos of Raul this weekend. There's also a bridge between Poseur and Raul that I've been thinking about.

Although I haven't given much thought to some of the later tracks, the album is starting to form in my head, and it's really becoming more of a pseudo-concept album. By pseduo-concept album, I'm thinking in the sense of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band or Zappa's You Are What You Is, where each song isn't necessarily about the same topic, but there's some unity and flow from track to track. ...I'm not, by the way, comparing the *music* I'm coming up with to either of those fantastic albums.