spent the last two weeks finishing my new album. i don’t think i’ve mentioned what’s it’s going to be called yet… i don’t think i will now either. but i will moon soon. a few tracks are mastered and i’m being a one man CD duplication factory this very second, pumping out a small pile of cd singles. feels like we should have been done with these lumbering circular plastic things 5 years ago. catch up radio! next step, artwork. it’s quite exciting. you’ll like the album, i promise. it makes mention of robots a few times and there’s this three note refrain that’s sprinkled through out the 15 or so tracks which all weave together. it’s almost a concept album… just with a poorly defined concept… more of a unproven hypothesis album.
also on the work bench, for all you unfortunate souls, i’m getting AXIS up and running on windows… i say that but really xp’s alright. the windows versions going to be minus a few small features just because of the way the windows drivers interpret the guitar (or unless someone else can fix it). this is one big step closer to release meaning it will be out before the years up.
i’ve been making stickers too. as i promised: robots and swear words. if you want one you have two options. the hard way: print out the above robot on sticker paper and cut it out. or the super easy way: enter my EP + sticker give away! there’s four days left and it’s super easy.
greetings and welcome to the year 2009. incase you were unaware, the year actually begins on the first of febuary. don’t worry, it’s a common mistake. i don’t think any less of you. recording’s continuing and the scaffolding of an album is well and truly in place. progress was halted briefly by a crippling heat wave and while i would of liked to have been recording i was too busy curled up on the comparitively cool bathroom floor in a sweaty heap… not really… but it was too hot to think… or even exist.
anyway, more has been happening too. i think i left off talking about the guitar hero drums and my attempts to MIDIfi them. well, my success was limited. but i did put together a little video for youtube world to explain my guitar hero rig and some of things other people are doing with these awesome little plastic axes.
it’s quite likely you don’t care but i do get asked about it and sharing is caring. more has been happening too. i’ve started on a new clip for the new album and this particular clip is being filmed from the air! with this thing!
i’ll report back as things happen. and things are happening so i’ll report back soon. i think i’ve got some gigs coming up in march so i’ll have to tell you about that… it’ll involve banjo!
farewell for now as we launch recklessly into the future,
bob.
Zeal is 25 year-old Adelaidien, Robert Jarvis. He makes down-beat experimentapop in his bedroom studio and animated music videos about cats in space on his bedroom floor.
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