Electrocrafting - The Flight of The Electric Phoenix

The completion of The Electric Phoenix album has been postponed due to my studies and other projects. But I've still managed to make both the actual production work and planning for the ensemble a bit.

I started to browse through my old track drafts and found many of those that I'd like to get completed and that fit into the theme and the story of TEP. This will allow me to put aside some of the tracks I've been trying to compose for TEP that I consider not so succesfull at the moment.

These findings of old drafts also make it possible to raise the number of the tracks from eight to even 15. I've been thinking that the online release would include the originally thought amount of eight tracks and only the actual CD release would include all 15 tracks.

New project draft adds to TEP

As I am an enthusiastic music project starter and planner (but usually not so succeeding to complete or upkeep those projects) I started yet again a new ambient music project called MER which is an acronym for Main Existence Resolution.

After enthusing for some weeks it was time to slap myself into reality and state that if there is not enough time to get even one project moving on two of them would be impossible to get on with. I even made the album cover for the first release of MER, see it below.

The album cover draft for Main Existence Resolution.

I then decided to add the first track of MER I made during that enthusing period as a part of TEP. I used the project name as a name of that track. So you'll hear Main Existence Resolution as a part of TEP album.

I registered a Vimeo account in order to give you some tasters of tracks in progress. This time you'll get a taster draft of, what else, Main Existence Resolution. I even ended up fiddling some kind of a video for it, using the previously drafted album cover. Just some 15 min. tweaking, but better than using plain cover pic. Hope you enjoy!

Elektropol - Main Existence Resolution from Elektro Pol on Vimeo.

Electrocrafting - September

Welcome to Electrocrafting-series of Elektopol, title under which I'll put my studio diaries and such.

Moon over Moogerah by Matthew Stewart

No specific deadline is set for the release of The Electric Phoenix, but it would be rather nice to get it complete until the end of year 2010. New album, track and story ideas emerge all the time and there are already some ideas considering the possible following album.

Three of eight tracks for TEP are complete at some degree (slight mixing and variations are needed) and five are under construction. There are total of ten different tracks or track billets waiting to get complete. Some of those are surely material for the next album as their point of view is somewhat different from TEP tracks.

I've been struggling with my timetables as there are some university studies, running and parties to get over with. Hopefully I will have more time for composing after I end my running season for this year 4th October.

Vast sample libraries and available VST-instruments have made it easy for me to concentrate on essentials and just create sounds that auralize (is that a word?) my thoughts and ideas. At the moment I am very happy that I have managed to get out sounds that I've wanted. These almost complete tracks present quite presicely what I wanted them to present. I'll put some samples online before the actual release.

In addition to get those three tracks complete and five under more active construction I must also take care of some supportive tasks considering the release (checked 12/12/10):

• Set up a MySpace account for sharing the tracks (www.myspace.com/elektropolmusic, some French person had taken /elektropol :<)
• Set up a project to Finnish Mikseri.net service (the biggest Finnish online community for free music)
• Finish the album design (cover, in-cover text, tracklisting and so on)
• Design some relevant graphics for online use
• Gather some more ideas and tips to share the album online
• Possibly tweak up some kind of a music video (enables sharing on YouTube, Vimeo and such)
• Burn x amount of actual CD releases and print covers for them (future collectable item ;))