June 6, 2024
Whelp in spite of getting sick for
a second time in the last MONTH,
I managed to write and record
TWO instrumental tracks in the
last two weeks.
Both of which are available to
listen to in the Future Sphere
Facebook group or the #album-
creation channel in the
The thought behind writing these
instrumental tracks for the album
was to introduce each half of the
album. With the album being called
“Beautiful, Terrible” the original
thought was to have half the album
be in a “terrible” vibe and the
other half in a “beautiful” vibe.
With the whole concept being that
in order to appreciate the
beautiful in life, it is necessary to
also experience the terrible.
Anyway, in spite of wanting half of
the album to be in a “beautiful”
vibe, overall this is actually turning
out to be the darkest album I’ve
written to date. Even so, I have
learned that for my own life that
there is beauty in the darkness and
I’ve been wanting to embrace that
dark side more with this record.
All this said, the first instrumental
track on the album will actually be
titled “Terrible”. Then the track
listing will include 5 songs after
that before hitting the next
instrumental track called
“Beautiful”.. after which 5 more
songs will follow.
I’m SO excited for all of this coming
together, and I’m very proud of
these fun instrumental tracks.
The idea too is to include some
“radio space transmission chatter”
back and forth to have kind of it’s
own space-themed short story
across the two tracks. Sam and I
plan on recording those with our
own voices once we get rid of this
illness that has plagued our
household lol. As far as other work
I’ve done this week. I’ve spent a
total of probably around 16 hours in
the last few days on the first SONG
on the album titled “Shadow/Light”.
This song will follow the intro track
“Terrible”.
My friend in LA has been
sending guitar parts for this, but
the further I’ve dug into them in
the studio I’ve realized that there
is a difference in guitar tone and
amplifier tone between that song
and the new intro track.
I decided I wanted “Shadow/Light”
to sonically come from the same
place as “Terrible” so I had to
re-record almost ALL of the guitar
parts for Shadow/Light.
My friend James from LA did a
great job of writing some really
cool guitar parts which will still
be included in the song just
re-recorded in my studio to keep
the guitar sound consistent.
It literally took me 8 hours just to
re-record all the guitar parts in the
opening 8 bars of the song because
in my mind they are SO important
being the first 8 bars of the album
after the intro track.
And I’ve yet to re-record bass on
those 8 bars too. I’ll be getting to
that today after packing more CD
orders for tomorrow’s shipment.
That ALSO reminds me, we voted on
names for my bass guitar in the
Discord haha! I think we have a
winner, but I have to review the
votes in the #voting channel and
then announce the winner this
week too.
Thankfully I think I’m personally on
the mend from whatever sickness
has hit our home. I went to one of
those IV clinics yesterday where
they pump your veins full of
vitamins to help you get healthy or
to help stay healthy. Sarah thought
she was coming down with the same
illness so she went with me. She
feels great today so hopefully that’ll
prevent her from getting hit with it
a second time like I did. I think it
was super helpful for me too but
this is day 10 of this nasty bug
(after already having it or
something else mid May).
Maybe all the stress of trying to get
this album done by my goal of my
birthday in August is only adding to
my body’s immunity weakness, but
either way I’m in crunch time mode
to try to hit that goal still!
Stay tuned for more!