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July 3rd 2010
I'm now four songs into the new album and pleased with the progress. I've been getting some lovely emails from everyone asking how it's going and what direction it's taking. In fact, I've had so many great questions asked by you all and have spent hours replying to them in great detail, that at some point I think I'm going to post my answers to your questions up here on this page. I wish interviewers and album reviewers would be as in detail as my listeners! I'd have some awesome interviews then! I'm really honoured that people care as much about the songs and the artistic direction as I do- it gives me the motivation to keep going in this very difficult world of original music.
I'll keep it short for now and will post up more details in time. At the moment, I'm working on some new styles of guitar playing, with new chords I've never used before. I've also started writing on my beautiful Peruvian mandolina and am very excited about the particular song I've written on that. I'm making sure not to repeat myself, but also to stay true to my sound and what I stand for, lyrically and musically. The song I wrote in Sweden is completed and ready for instrumental arrangement, which is always the next step after writing it. And then I have a Spanish- influenced song I'm working on right now. As yet, all these are on guitar but might not stay that way, and I have a few ideas based on piano that I have yet to do.
In other big news, aside from all the creativity, I'm having to learn how to be a business woman at the moment as I'm going to set up my own independent record label this year! It's something I've been thinking about for a long time, and now I'm having the summer off my usual gigging and workshop routine, I've had a bit more time to sort it out. So I'm working really hard with ideas on that now too and planning for the future.
If anyone has questions about the new album, keep them coming!
August 11th 2010
So, as I've been promising for a long time, I have finally started recording some videos for my Youtube page. The idea behind this is that whilst I'm working on my new album, I'll upload a weekly video with some information about the songs from my previous two albums and I'll perform a stripped -down/ acoustic version of that song. The first one is already up, talking about Circles. Find it on the Video/DVD page.
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