Happy New Year

A brand new year. The party season has left little time—it seems—for the literate, witty banter that the world has fallen captive to on this page.

Doug and I, with Dan's caring and comforting company, spent some time recording some vocals. The tracks are coming together nicely. As I told Doug, I think Mnemosyne in particular is sounding splendid.

There's something a little deflating about recording vocals. You are standing in front of the microphone breathing from the diaphragm and all that and singing at tremendous volume yet with an impassioned and emotion-filled timbre and then you hear the playback and it emits some weedy, tuneless voice with all the notes wrong.