April 3, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- Remixed studio version of “Full Power” for upcoming podcast episode
Whale Helmet
- Recorded “Full Power” episode
Elephants of Scotland
March 30, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- Remaster (and slight remix) of Rosfest for YouTube upload. Hey, free concert!
- Might go up tomorrow.
March 15, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- “Beyond the Sun (W.T.)”
- Hard at work with the songwriting. Arranging all the available bits including an Instagram song I made in December that is in a similar rhythm and tempo.
March 12, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- “Beyond the Sun (W.T.)”
- Made MIDI demo of my treatment of Bob’s steel drum riff. He wrote it on a drum thingy that is metal. Not really a steel drum but I don’t know its proper name.
- I started up a Facebook chat session with the four Elephants (me, Greg, John, and Bob) I shared the groove idea.
- Greg came back with some lyrics.
March 10, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- Finally piecing together all the bits and pieces from recent EoS jams into something resembling a song. Or three.
- Spent a few hours on Bob’s steel drum idea adding synth and guitar chords as well as writing a bass line.
January 29, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- Practice with John and Bob
- Played with Bob’s new Dorian riff.
- Found a tie-in with Heliophase.
- We agreed we have more than enough raw material to start coalescing them into songs.
- Explained my February project to them. They’re on board.
January 27, 2020
February 2020 Album
- Wrote to story writers (KW, GS, CL) that I’ll give them the prompt on 1/29 so they can start thinking about their story before they actually start writing on Feb. 1.
- Wrote to all six songwriter partners about the album concept. Started scheduling writing sessions for locals.
Elephants of Scotland
- Chart writing
January 8, 2020
Elephants of Scotland
- “Reason (WT)”
- Compiled every idea I’ve jotted down over last few years that fit this groove
- It was a lot
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