Album projects update

10/6/18

Album projects update:

I’m rather behind schedule for my next releases, the reasons for this are twofold:

1) I needed a break.  I have been releasing consistently for some time now and I felt my creative juices were in need of rejuvenation – the last thing I want to do is to go in ‘auto-pilot’ and release very samey sounding albums, so a break (which wasn’t entirely a ‘break’, as I’m still perusing  / experimenting with ideas) was in order.

2) Guitar stuff – for one of my upcoming projects, I need to practice guitar to a degree where I become far more fluid in my playing (as I needed to with the fretless bass, for my last album). I also have been buying guitars, which takes quite some time to get them to be in a good playing / working order. I’m experimenting with all manner of guitar / pickup combinations to find the ‘tone’ that will suit what I have in mind for the project.

I have been creating videos of some of the guitars / sounds I’m planning on using. They will more likely to be of interest to people interested in those instruments. However as I have to do multiple takes to get a decent performance, there is an element of playing live which may be of interest (particularly as I don’t actually perform live)

 

Hopefully, towards the end of 2018, I will be closer to finishing these projects off.

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New Year, new Projects…

In the spirit of striving to continually create, I have two musical projects which I plan to finish and release in 2018.

One, is based around sequences and semi-generative pieces, with more overt guitar playing (than I’m used to including in my ambient work) and an element of rhythmic (sequenced) interplay.

The other, is a darker affair, based around spatial field recordings with a significant amount of spatial processing. I’d like to see it as a development of my 2010 album ‘Orcus’ – with a more modern production.

I have already worked on these projects quite a lot and have a substantial work-in-progress pool of material for them, but (currently) they are still at an earlier stage. More developments will follow.

All the best for the new year !

 

 

 

 

Late Late Summer Images 2017

Almost Autumn, but still technically Summer ! Here’s a selection of recent Images:

(as usual, all taken with an iphone 6 Plus)

 

Rose

Small Rowan #2

Small Rowan

Rowan

Low Key

‘Moonglow’ New album released !

1/12/16

‘Moonglow‘ is the ‘sister release’ to my previous album ‘Ocean Sighs’.

The image used for the album cover was taken with my old Sony R1, which was one of the best cameras I had.

Please see here for more details:

https://luminasounds.wordpress.com/news/

 

 

Late Summer images #2 (and album update)

Well there was something of an Indian Summer here last week, after I had (wrongly) predicted the end of the Summer. Here’s some recent Images, taken locally. I thought I’d try this WordPress circles view.

 

Processed with MaxCurve

Processed with MaxCurve

Processed with MaxCurve

Processed with MaxCurve

 

Album Update:

My album is still on schedule for release at the end of this month.

I consolidated things considerably and will release a single album, as opposed to the larger release I had intended. It’s a selection of ambient ‘Seascapes‘. More will be revealed soonest !

 

 

 

‘Dream of Form (Cloud Mix / rework)

I’ve just completed a rework of the track ‘Dream of Form’ from my ‘Iris’ album’.

Spatial environmental recordings from a Zoom h2.n recorder were incorporated with selected tonal drone textures from the original to create a very different track. (The track is down-loadable as a 320kbps mp3 on the Soundcloud page)

Here’s two recent Images:

Upcoming Album Project (late 2015) and unreleased track

Upcoming Album Project (late 2015)

I have a project that I intend to release towards the end of this year. It is based around female voices in a beat-less ambient context. There may well be some kind of thematic elements involving choral / sacred voices and sea sounds (really) !. I plan on releasing it towards the end of this year.

I’ve posted a very brief snip from one of my work-in-progress tracks on my Soundcloud page:

More info as I progress with it.

Unreleased Track at my Apple music artist page

I’ve figured out how to upload a track to my Apple music artist page thing (which took some doing !)
Hopefully this link should work – apologies if it doesn’t ! (I will probably upload it to Soundcloud / Bandcamp in a few weeks) I’m just curious to determine whether this Apple music artist profile thing might be of some use.

‘Breath of Life’

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/post/idsa.a0692a73-3f6d-11e5-b455-ec2d3377e641