The Masters of Sound & Vision

 

Work continued on the EP. Sonically it was all basically done, though once recorded and mixed we then enlisted the services of Simon Trought for track mastering, highly recommend by and booked through Oak Tree Music.

In addition to the core band members, as well as José having done an awesome job in production, one of his daughters Alba provided some backing vocals and another wider part of the  “band family”, Pete, had inadvertently provided us with a great cover image for the EP. 

This week I’ve managed to both get the tracks, cover and credit details ready for the distributors to process and send out to the various platforms.

As with the rest of it, we look forward to revealing the contents in the coming weeks!

We name this ship...

It's getting closer (March 1st, to be precise), the new album I'm making with The Blue Yellows has been recorded, was mastered this very week (see insta' post below), CD distributors and printers have been contacted with issues discussed, as as I write, artwork is being tweaked to fit the necessary criteria. The plan is to get a batch of CDs ready by January to send to out reviewers, magazines, bloggers and so on as the serious players are mostly focused on reviewing material 6 weeks or so before release. The pressure's on.

We are also planning on doing a facebook-live broadcast in the near future, answering any of your questions on the album, or anything surrounding it. So feel free to let me know ANY of your questions on this, don't worry about it being too daft or not knowing enough about recording or music, anything at all - fire away here or on social media! 

Questions so far include; "Will The Lorax be on it?" and "Is the album a girl or a boy?"...

What's your Question?

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Tonight, I picked up the final version of all the tracks for the forthcoming album with my gang #TheBlueYellows mastered by production maestro at #ColossusProductions, #GlynSutton! 4 tracks on here are produced by @timleesongs and this marks the final process on the musical side of things other than uploading/sending to the CD people and our music distributers for online and streaming services. Tweaking of artwork is now well underway. Pic 2 is lil', tiny portion of the front cover art! All excitement here at BYs Towers! 😉 #newalbum #newmusic #production #mastering #mastertracks #CD #CDMaster #streaming #downloads #musicdistribution #band #musicians #newrelease #coverart #albumcover #musicart #difficult2ndalbum

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Some different moments in the recording of this album..