New album completed

News at last. If you've read my previous post you'll be aware that I completely scrapped an almost finished album a couple of weeks ago. Luckily, some of it was salvageable. For the last 2 weeks I've been re-making the album from scratch, taking it in a very different direction and making something worth hearing. Working title Absentia has become Absent Son. Over the next few hours I'll be doing some editing to the recordings and it will be uploaded to the online stores by tomorrow morning.

In the meantime, I've upoaded a video to youtube with the earliest demos for Trinity to give you an idea how the album developed. You can find it here: Trinity Slideshow.

Thanks for reading,

Barnaby J. Tremayne.

PS Happy new year everyone.

TRINITY ALBUM CANCELLED

Hello readers, I'm very sad to say that the Trinity album is cancelled. After a lot of work and a lot of time, I finally got to listen to the almost finished product. 6 of the 9 songs are finished and ready for release. After listening to some well trusted opinions, it was agreed that the album just didn't quite work.

But it's not all bad news, some of the album is salvageable and with a little work I should be able to make a new album out of the remnants. Hopefully it will be ready by New Year's, if I really put the work in. Christmas is a quiet time for me, so I should be free to record everything I need.

The plan for Trinity was a departure from my previous work, to add electronic elements to my mostly acoustic music to create new textures. There are rough demos online at mediafire/barnabytremayne, and I will upload the complete album (such as it is) for a limited time just in case anyone wants to hear it.

So what's next? I was playing the very first demos for Trinity and I realised how different it is to the original concept. The plan is to return to the original plan and start again, keeping it simpler this time. Luckily, most of the material is recyclable and I should be able to recreate the earlier work very quickly. Working title for the new album is Absentia (I'll let you figure out why).

Til next time,

Barnaby J. Tremayne.

Update on new album

Today I should be recording the final parts of my third album Trinity. I'd say it's about four fifths finished. It still needs a few guitar and synth parts added and a couple of mistakes need to be fixed. If all goes to plan, it will be finished just before Christmas and before the first anniversary of Bletchley's release. The demos will be available on my website soon, and the finished album will be available from the usual places. Wish me luck. This is the first album to feature anything other than guitar, bass, drums and voice.

Til later,

Barnaby J. Tremayne.