Faerie Tales and Other Stories – getting there!

Well, this weekend I’ve been tidying up some of my tracks and starting to piece together how my next album is going to fit together. I always dislike this part of the process. I’m much happier when it’s a concept album I’m putting together (with music flowing from track to track) because the music has already pretty much decided on it’s own order. However, I’m getting there and it looks like there will be about an hour of music when I’m done.

14 tracks is where the tally stands at the moment but I’ll be adding a couple more (see later in this post…) and some of that 14 need tweaks and fixing before they’re ready for the album.

I’ve had an idea about doing a slightly different kind of musical variations. There’s going to be a track called ‘Chinese Whispers’ which will introduce a theme – probably the 2nd or 3rd track on the album – and then there will be another 3 or 4 tracks which take that theme and develop it or present it in a different arrangement. The tracks won’t be long – they’ll mostly be almost like ‘intermissions’ or the ‘walking between pictures’ tracks from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. I’ve got 2 of the Chinese Whispers tracks completed with another 2 or 3 to complete.

You can here some Work In Progress versions of a couple of the tracks on my SoundCloud page – Dervish is going to be one of the Chinese Whispers tracks and In A Nutshell has been renamed ‘Once Upon A Time’. Remember that these are Works In Progress and so may change.

Anyway – another blog post later on me joining Ourstage to be judged!

Cheers,

Terry.