Progress! Terror! Progress!

Once again, I forget when I last updated this. As is probably becoming obvious to my (zero) readers, my schedule gets a little more hectic once school gets thrown into the mix. I have been doing things, though. Many things. Important things!

First and foremost, Sarah and I finally got together and recorded the tracks we wrote a few months ago. We have to rerecord Sarah's vocs at some point becuase the squeaky piano stool she was sitting on makes occasional weird background noises while she's singing, but the piano (hauntingly minimalist!) and the rap vocals (disturbingly bad!) are done. And I don't expect Sarah's vocals to take much time at all...she has an incredible voice, and more or less nailed everything in one try even when she had to focus on playing the piano at the same time.

With those two songs, the recording of this album has more or less drawn to a close and we're now on to the editing/mixing phase. I've done a fair amount of the editing already, so really, the giant monster standing in my path at the moment is mixing. I'm hoping to have most or all of that done by the end of this weekend and then after that the music portion of the album will be completely done except for a few loose ends from DJ HDL I may still be waiting on.

I also talked to Luis about cover art, so we're going to meet up sometime this weekend to discuss that and hopefully get the ball rolling. Several rough versions of the album are out amongst some close friends who are reviewing them for me, and I've lined up one person willing to review it professionally already once it's totally done (but I still need to get more). I also need to start creating promo materials like posters, and planning some shows to help spread the word, plus writing up however it is I'm going to spam all my facebook and myspace friends. Of course, all this is going on while I'm taking four classes and trying to find funding to study in China this summer. And I'm hoping to have it done and released in the next 2-3 weeks. Terror!