Repeating some of the information from a
previous post a variation of the following comments accompanied a CD of THE 35
which was delivered to Cava last week. The songs are being worked on as I write
this and may already have become the 34. But the original title will remain as
it sounds better - to my ears anyway.
During one of many attempts to sort out song
related material I discovered that I had filed most of the written words in a
large folder.
Recently I selected from it one hundred and
fifty lyrics. I chose only those which, at some stage of their making, had been
given enough of a tune to be recorded onto cassette, reel to reel or dat tape.
A previously recorded version of each song was
then located. The majority were on my main computer.
After a gap of several weeks I listened again
to the one hundred and fifty tracks and selected thirty five.
Some of them are songs I like but I have
chosen only those recordings that I hoped might be capable of having their
sound quality professionally improved.
Several of the recordings are extremely quiet,
some have heavy thumps and others will require a bit of de-essing but the
temptation for me to increase the volume or mess about with them in any way has
been avoided.
The task if you choose to take it on is to
listen to the thirty five tracks and identify those which,
in relation to their sound quality, you think could be made 'good.'
That would be STAGE ONE. For STAGE TWO a selection of the tracks
which survive the first stage would be considered for further work. In
STAGE THREE, a final selection might be made and used on an acoustic only CD.
The end.
As for the overall intention in getting this
done. Because I spent a lot of time in my grown up life working on Custtad (www.custtad.com) I did not give enough time
and attention to song writing. Not enough that is to develop as a song writer
and performer and produce a coherent catalogue of songs.
If this CD is made it will not make up for
that lack but it may allow me to move on from the older material and discover a
different way of recording and working with the new material I have.
