January has been fairly productive so far, having finally finalised album #1′s tracklisting combined with a minor breakthrough in the recording process which is enabling me to get vocals done faster and in a more focussed fashion. I’m currently working on two tracks which pretty much just need the vocals finishing. “All Bombs To Earth“, a song I initially wrote/demoed almost a year ago, has grown into a mini epic and has seen it’s tempo increase from 120 to 125bpm (which makes more of a difference than some may think). Having now added some subtle guitar to the track and other trimmings it’s finally getting close to how I imagined it should be all those months ago. This will be track #3 on the album.

The other track I’m specifically working on (and will be more so next week) is the album opener “Final Beginning“, which is currently one of my favourites (if I had to pick one) and ties in with the *ahem* mini-concept of the album (the lyrics should reveal why, though as a whole there is no heavy concept to the album so it’s a more free affair than what I initially planned which is probably for the best).

I honestly don’t know when this album will be finished, it WILL be 2011 but I can’t say when as I’m taking each track very seriously and recording, mixing, remixing and doing listening tests on a song is like decorating a room in a house, you have to get everything out, and get messy before you can try and get perfection. This takes a lot of focussed energy and time. I’d estimate each track for editing, mixing and testing is currently taking 2-3 weeks, times that by 9 and allow another couple of weeks for outstanding recording and final album mastering, it all adds up. Also have to do a couple of videos before I can release the album so It’ll be a while yet.

To anyone who is reading this and still waiting, and still cares about hearing any of my music, I thank you for your support. I know it’s not easy to give a shit in this day and age when we are literally overwhelmed with information and entertainment to be ‘consumed’ and have more than enough already to get through.

Here’s a reminder of some spacehotel links for the virtually socially aware:

Spacehotel Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/spacehotelmusic

Spacehotel Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54178477324

Spacehotel Twitter Page: http://www.twitter.com/spacehotel

Thanks for reading

Paul

‘We Can Say It All‘, the second Spacehotel single of 2010, has been released.

This is technically the 4th Spacehotel single if we factor in the lead tracks from other releases: Full On, Dead Radio, I’m Not There and We Can Say It All. In case anybody likes to keep track of these things using the old-school ‘traditional’ method of discographizing (new word) single releases.

This song is probably the most like the early ‘Outsider’ material I’ve released so far as Spacehotel, not typical of the darker sound that will be on the first album and definitely more ‘pop’ sounding than the majority of songs I’m working on.

It also has that ’80s thing going on, part 80′s homage part Roland D-50 smothered… yes I loved the 80s but I’m not trying to get on some (dying) retro bandwagon or anything, it’s just what I do from time to time. :)

Info page: http://www.spacehotelmusic.com/rls_wecansayitall.php (Click on song name for lyrics page)

The first Spacehotel album will be released this year, I’m still working on it. None of these singles will be on the album(s) so please feel free to acquire them as soon as possible :)

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While the on-going album recording and mixing continues, I’ve decided to release single songs (which are not going to be on any album in the future) from time to time.

These songs won’t be on albums for various reasons, but I still want to put them out to keep my internal momentum going while I work on the much longer process of recording the album(s). A song released is a song out of my head and allowing more brain power to concentrate on the remaining songs.

First release of 2010 and the first of the single songs is ’I'm Not There’,  just in time for summer!

This song almost didn’t make it, as the multitrack files became corrupted! I had to do my best, though not ideal by any means, with a stereo only mixdown I had from a few weeks ago. If you have an equaliser on your playback device, a couple of DB gain around 8khz should help on the top end. Welcome to the future of the interactive listening/mastering experience. ;)

Available at CDBaby http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Spacehotel2 now!
Will be out on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Spotify etc soon.

The first Spacehotel album will be released this year.

This post was sponsored by the word ‘Album’

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Final version of ‘Dead Radio’ is the lead track, the support track is ‘Rewind 25′, my explicit ‘homage’ to the glorious 80s, the music of that decade being the biggest influence on Spacehotel’s music.

Available from iTunes, Amazon, Play, Rhapsody etc

iTunes Link: http://ax.itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/spacehotel/id280713178

UPDATE: It’s now released. Check the releases section of the main site.

Just a quick update to say at the time of writing ‘To Escape’ from ‘Full On EP’ has reached the number one position on the songvault.fm alternative charts. These charts are formed by listeners voting for the songs they like. Thank you to all listeners of Spacehotel who voted, and to casual songvault.fm users who gave it a thumbs up.

Due to the nature of songvault, the positions don’t last forever and it will likely drop again. However, the fact all 3 tracks reached the songvault directory (after passing 3 previous ‘tiers’ of voting) is very cool, so thanks again for all the support! Anyone who hasn’t yet voted and would like to (free registration required) please visit: Spacehotel On SongVault.FM then listen to the 3 songs in turn, and click on ‘I Like It’ (Thumbs up). Any future voting will always affect the position on the charts so is always worthwhile.

Thanks again to everyone for their support.

I’m currently working hard on some new releases (as well as the album, as always), I’m trying to get some quicker releases done this year.. including videos – these will most likely take the form of 2 track singles. Thanks for reading.

Paul