Eric's House Of Ego

13 of the 15 songs done. Lead Vocal, Guitar, Craviola, Harmony Vocals, Violin, Mellolin, Mandola, Hand Drums.

We ended up dropping An Affirming Flame, we just couldn’t get the arrangement right. It will show up on a later CD. We added Gatekeeper instead. I think you’ll like it.

Children Of The Flame
Gargoyles of New Orleans
Gatekeeper
Mamaw’s Kitchen
Mermaid’s Scar
Nachthexen
Seaside Evening Market
Shadow Moon
Spinning Skies & Mirrors
Strength In The Fire
Theater Major Blues
When Monkeys Fly
Within The Snow

We have two more songs left to record, and will go back into the studio on the 7th to finish everything off.

Slice Of Infinity
Solstice

If all goes well, the new CD will be out at Demicon May 5-7. We will start pre-orders this weekend. Studio time is paid for, but we still need to press the CDs. If we get 90 pre-orders, that pays for the pressing, and gets us some gear we need to make our home recording studio better.

Oh, and we do have to thank Bryon Dudley of The Spacement & Nova Labs for taking such good care of us this weekend. More shenanigans will be done there!

We are going into the studio tomorrow to record the 52 Songs Project CD. 15 songs and a weekend. That is the plan.

We will miss working with the marvelous Donna Miller, but I think we will have a grand time with Bryon Dudley!

We'll post updates as we go.

The tracks for the acoustic version of the album are done. Donna is working on an initial mix, which we should have on Saturday. Step one is about finished. We're looking toward step two now, the full on electric band album.

Further and further.

The songs are ...

The Midnight Contingent
Circus Of Dreams
Call Me Home
Beast Within
Don’t Look Now
Morrigan
Boneman’s Daughter
Persephone
Alice In Zombieland
Loki Loves You
Navigator
Ghost Train
Banshee
Nighty Nights
Horizon

Another recording session tonight. Got a lot of stuff done on the demos. Nine songs are done, they just need mixing.

Alice In Zombieland
Banshee
Boneman's Daughter
Call Me Home
Circus Of Dreams
Don't Look Now
Horizon
Loki Loves You
Persephone

Wednesday Lizzie goes in to work on Morrigan. It will be layers of vocals. And to record the title song.

We have 4 songs to either finish writing, or rehearse into some sort of coherency ...

Beast Within
Clotho's Harp
Ghost Train
Nighty Knights (blame Adam Whitlach for this)

Then these go off to the folks playing on the band version of the CD. And off to folks who got them as a bonus at a Concert Window show. They will also get released when the CD comes out, for those folks who like the acoustic side of Cheshire Moon.

Closer and closer to getting this part of the project done!

We recorded Out Of The Light and A Song About Fog last night. The first of the summer singles. Donna did amazing things mixing these songs. It makes me really look forward to the next CD.

What started this was that we wanted the band version of Out Of The Light. The version on the CD is good, but doesn't really show what it is like live. Things expanded and now we are going to record songs that will appear on the next CD, but since Susan is moving, may not be recorded the way we do them now. We are making especially sure that the songs featuring the Gamba are recorded. The rest of the singles should be ...

Haunted (two versions)
Catnyp / Narrow Way
Village By The Sea / Witch In Your Story

We expect to be back in the studio in 2 weeks.

We got the last of the basic tracks done last night. We recorded Child Of Stars, If I Were The Rain and Ways Of Wind And Water. We have vocals, overdubs and some glitches to fix still to do. But the hard part is done. We'll be back to it in a couple weeks.

It's been a good week. I have been dropping Lizzie off every morning, so that means I stop at Ritual Cafe and get a Chai.

The session last night went well. We didn't get as much done as I wanted, but that was a given anyway. We have a good take on Companion and a really good take on Out Of The Light. Both John (the drummer) and Jared (bass, oh, and aka WSPA-2) stepped up to the challenge.

It's going to be good folks!

So I'm mentioning it again, we need help to get this done. If you want to hear the songs, go to cheshiremoonband.com, all of the songs minus two are on the music page (and we'll get those demoed soon). Some of the recordings are rough, but imagine those fleshed out and with a good clean sound.

It doesn't take much from you, if enough people give 20 dollars we get this out. And each of those people get a CD. If you give more, you get even niftier stuff, everything from items knitted by Lizzie to a house concert. Take a look, take a listen.

Cheshire Moon - Ways of Wind and Water

The hiss seems to be gone, which means I can get back to my next two CDs as well as the CD of a friend.

I'm still unconvinced about my new(ish) vocal mike. I may end up doing the vocals with my old stage mike. I know how to get a decent sound out of that.

I'm putting together a new disc of demos to listen to to see what needs to change, and what needs work. I have versions of all the songs that will be on the CD that I can at least bear to listen to now. I still need to work on the covers CD. That will be a pretty fast operation though since I'm not really doing much in the way of overdubs. And I need to re-record the funny stuff from Glass for the CD I am putting together for Dementia shows (all the funny stuff from both CDs in one place, in case you want to avoid my serious stuff, of course it will include different versions of older songs, so if you want to be a completist you have a reason to be mad at me, this will have the updated version of WYSIWYG)

Ok, time to go back upstairs to see if the CD is done burning.

So how was your day?

I will have the new song up on my myspace page in a couple of hours. I am going to record the other song for the festival here in just a bit, but it's such a performance piece for such a specific instance that I might not put it up anywhere, not that I don't want anyone to hear it, just that I don't think it will work well as a recording.

I'm still having some problems burning off to the computer, but I think that is fixable. I can only get one channel, not stereo. It's the cord I am using (get a new cord, I'll bring another one in tomorrow), the output of the mixer (mix out of the headphone jack for now, need a new stereo to stereo mini cord) or it's the jack into the computer (pretty sure that it is not, the stuff I did at home this morning came out in stereo)

The hiss seems to be less too ... so things are going better

So ... I went up to offload the new song onto my laptop.

Everything connects, I can hear it through the speakers ... I get complete silence when I hit record.

I give up ... I really do ...

::stomping off::