Synoiz Music Blog

Posted 14th October 2009

Hey all,
It feels like years since my last update yet I know it's only been about a fortnight. I can't express to you how busy I've been but as you can see, there's a few more things ticked off my To Do list to the side. The big day is coming and so I thought I'd post a quick blog to tell you about one of the special promotions I'm doing to celebrate.

Ambients CD Offer

Finally I have the CD copies of Ambients and they're very cool, the artwork and inlay took ages to prepare but I'm really happy with the final result. This means that it's time to tell you how you can get your hands on one.

The CDs are in a very limited quantity and will not be going on direct sale, basically I will be giving away a FREE copy of the Ambients CD (including P&P to wherever you are) with every digital purchase of the album from either Amazon or iTunes while stocks last. You can find out more about it here including how to apply and security/legal information.

Posted 22nd September 2009

Just a quick update today. It was a crazy day, one of those everything goes wrong type days. People being all grumbly around me, dodgy weather, missed my bus, lost ticket so had to pay again etc. When I got home this evening I was in a right strop with the world, was about to press the ignition on my doom lazer (which I obviously have so be warned).

Then I did something I never, ever do. I just said f*ck it. Stepped away from the computer and the artwork that needs doing, the website that needs building, and went to run a bath. Then I spent like 3 hours in there, just chilling. Watching the Studio Ghibli film "Whisper of the Heart" on my laptop across the room. Kinda put things in perspective and calmed me down a lot.

Essentially the moral of the film is that the work we do is always "in progress" and that we should never attempt to do things perfectly first time. Made me realise that yeah, while I'm still gonna push my debut album all I can, it'll probably not be till like the fourth or fifth album I release that someone goes "hey this is sounding pretty good, come help out with this soundtrack" or something. I've always been around music and yet I've never made it myself until I started the Synoiz project. Just gets a bit scary when a lot of the people I look up to or am surrounded by are like classically trained pianists who have been writing songs since they could walk etc.
Every track I create I can feel it coming together more.

Plus I got a wonderful email reply from Rob from Temposhark, really boosted my mood even more. I'll be down in London this weekend to see them live, and then I'm going down next weekend as well to be an extra in their next music video too. Good times.

Anyway the LIST! As you can see, not much ticked off so far, but the stuff I've bracketed (is that a word) are things that progress is being made on. I sent the b-side for "Getting Safer" to my friend Lori Cunningham and she pointed out that it was way too dissonant lol. So working on that a bit more before sending it off to Ghostsmut for mastering.

The big news is that the album CD artwork is nearly done, the limited-run physical copy of "Ambients" should look -awesome-. Here's a sneaky look at my paper-clipped-together-printed-on-a-bubblejet copy:

Thanks for reading! See you soon.