In Volume 4 of the Indie Musician's Diary I write about how and why music creation had to take a one year breather as I started to write the book that explains my first album, (The Change My Mind book). My planned, second album, "Abide", was put on...
The above Pic was made using Canva's AI (all rights reserved). My husband had just made a joke: "Why don't you get some sheep and have them act as sound absorption in the studio?" After all I had just draped a sheepskin and a wooly blanket over chairs to reduce some of the reflections in the room. I have professional sound panels but I usually drape my sheepskin over the back of my leather chair to reduce the reflections that might come from the wall in front of me as I record vocals. So I went into Canva to generate a pic with a prompt. That's how you do it these days. I think that sheep are great outdoors! They are great and cute, but smelly and drop alot on the floor if you know what I mean. So, no, I don't want them in my studio but the thought was sort of nice.
The first song of the Abide album with grandchild #2 on the way
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Yesterday I re-recorded the vocals and fixed the bass track on the song I'm Allowed to Be Myself. This, after two days of non-stop cleaning, taking care of my in-laws, making lasagne, washing clothes and shopping all just to get all chores out of the way because I have a pregnant daughter who is due any day now.
I have a great pianist from the Netherlands. Eric Lagerström, who is impatiently waiting to get this track so he can add his spice to it. I just want to check the vocal edit one last time before i< flatten and merge it and bounce the track to him.
The Change My Mind Book
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(Another AI generated illustration)
I am on Chapter 8, Rising which is about when I flew over to Nashville in 2017 to audition at the Objective conference. I learned a lot there about live music making, stage presence and that I did not fit in. I create and perform music over multiple genres, am older than most and was more interested in hanging out with the homeless people I met there than trying to get noticed by some music industry mogul.
I am really glad that I have written a diary here so I can go back and see what happened to me music wise through the years as I continue to write my story from stress to rest. The plan is to get the first draft to the editor before Christmas...
Until next time!
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