'MY PRIVATE COSMOS' :THE STORY SO FAR...
Tonight I've begun to assemble the track list/running order for 'My Private Cosmos.' I think it's going to present something of a challenge to those listeners who gravitate more towards the 'straight rock' end of my musical spectrum.
Whilst there are plenty of electric guitar parts featured, the structures and surrounding framework of the songs are not exactly orthodox. There's something dark and mysterious about several of the tracks.
How to describe things? Some might think of the tracks as resembling 'ambient, psychedelic avant-garde pop songs.' And that's not a bad description, despite its convoluted connotations, but it's only part of the story. Sonically, there's a deep, cavernous quality to several of the tracks, a 'lost in the void' feeling that requires a simpatico response from the listener.
There are grandiose moments too, set against stripped back, minimalist verses. Electronic distress gets mixed up with smooth, tuneful guitar tones to create a feeling of gleaming chrome blighted by rust and decay.
The album pulls together several threads of my musical interests and weaves them into an obscure, perhaps 'baroque' tapestry. It's sometimes familiar sometimes bizarre. Certainly not an album to be grasped and appreciated in a superficial listen, but, I hope, one that will blossom fully from extended plays. It's a slightly weird work, a little different from my usual, but also perfectly reflecting and extending some aspects that you may have become familiar with over the last few years.
Oh, and at the moment, it's going to be a double album, maybe even a triple masterwork. More info will be posted here as the shape of the album progresses. 😉
@sheltech I was actually thinking of a poster (folded up, obviously) being included in the finished earbook itself..i.e. an integral part of the overall finished product. I think making it part of it, would make it (the poster) that little bit more special....not something to be bought/mailed as a separate item.
If you start offering this, that and the other, separate entities, it starts to get complicated and messy, whereas, if something like a poster were to be included as part of the overall package, price adjusted accordingly, it keeps things 'clean' and in the same workspace...albeit more work obviously.
Regarding offering hi-res files for sale, well that's a definite no, no. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unscrupulous people out there that would buy the file, even if it were a moderate size PNG of 3000x3000 & 300 dpi for example, and print off of that and try and sell for themselves, for their own gains.
You should only provide/sell full-res files to a client, for example, that you have designed for and that have paid you to do so...any other time, on important artwork, only provide low res (e.g. 1200px max/ 72dpi PNG) files, so people can't resize these up to a required printable size without extreme quality loss, becoming pixelated etc. and never provide a finished PSD file, or APF file, vector files, etc.
Anyway, back to my original comment re a poster, it was just me thinking aloud really. It would be nice, but it's not a deal-breaker one way or the other...I'm sure Bill has it all mapped out very nicely, as per, and it will be a fabulous package when it lands.