Wow, what a crazy-ass week this turned out to be.
Our grand plans on finishing all the songs early and spending the last practice sessions playing the final versions together went down the drain. Stress took its toll on all of us, and we had a couple of very uninspired and unproductive days, and things seemed pretty bleak.
But every cloud has a silver lining: just today, we were able to finish the structures for both Gamma and Delta! They were both missing some stuff in the middle; most of the music had already been written, but never really arranged and played together by the whole band. So today, in our last practice session with the whole band, we made some crucial progress and in the end, things started to look pretty damn great!
Not only did we finish the songs (sure, there are small things still missing), but we managed to play all the songs together in a row for the first time – in the order that you’ll probably hear them on the record, nonetheless! Instead of concentrating on and writing stuff for a single song at a time, we were now actually hearing how the finished album will flow together; and it ain’t half-bad!
Final preparations keep us busy, but hopefully we can distance ourselves from the tracks a bit before the real pain challenge starts on Monday.
’til later,
Jari / Embreach
