Cosmic Glue - The First Day Of Spring

Today is officially the first day of spring. I'm up bright and early to take advantage of the fabulous morning here at The Old Stables in the flat of the Severn Plains at the edge of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. (image captured a few moments ago)

Wikipedia tells us: March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year.

In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year.

So much happened historically on this day, but the most exciting news in the context of this blog is that in 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

So here I am, working on song 15 again. The song just wont leave me alone. Okay - so it's about WW3 approaching...but it has optimism. I can't stop the flow of a song. The thing is bloody catchy too. Ibiza catchy. 

I love this process...it's like discovering new music just when you thought you'd heard everything...along comes something staggering that wakes you up and sets you scurrying to hear everything in the back catalogue (Nick Mulvey, Miranda Lambert, the soundtrack of Under The Skin...at the moment)

The good thing about being my age is that growing old disgracefully means that you don't have to conform and belong to any genre group musically. That old Beatles/Stones Blur/Oasis thing. You can listen to anyone and everyone and get something out of the experience... 

So, back to the song. The riffs are starting to call me, so I'm back to the guitar and recorder. 

Plotting the next recording session work methods. In on Monday and Tuesday and there's much to achieve. I will be adding backing vocals, sub bass and acoustic guitar loops to much already recorded (Mayflies, Fear Of Flying, Shine...) and the first of the next batch of soloists will be arriving to add their magic. Meanwhile, I'm travelling through the hours purveying my wondrous vintage pieces at Time After Time.

Enjoy this bright new day. 

Love and Peace! 

Cosmic Glue

Cosmic Glue - The Last Day Of Winter

The sky is blue and grey, the sun is shining, the winds are rising and the last thing I expected was to write a new song. But I did. And there is is. A strong song in my little canon of new pieces from this new age of music I find myself entering.

I'm back in the studio on Monday and this one needs to be added to the Cosmic Glue track list. I was already trying to pare down 14 songs to 12 and possibly 10...but that was just a crisis of confidence after a difficult start to my last recording session... (nothing to do with music - we all have a life to live with all of its stuff happening out here in the normal world...)

So could Cosmic Glue now hold 15 tracks? Those songs will have to fight for their lives, but fighting songs they are and at the moment they all have a good chance - including the new one - of making the final cut.

So today is a 'free' day. No studio, no shop to run, but here I am after four hours with a new song almost ready to go.

Yay!

But, to clear my head, we're taking the CD-less car on a jaunt... Up to the hills (or rather - The Hill - May Hill to be precise) with boots and dog and snug fitting hats. Then lunch in The Forest somewhere... (it was The Saracen's Head) then the second walk of the day along the River Wye - still at high water and fast flowing. Coco The Wonder Dog played mountain goat all along the banks.

Now - home again and back to the guitar and iPhone to record the embryonic basis of song 15.

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