I figure somewhere down the road I’ll get around to a second volume.
This means there will be many songs meant for THE ANGLE OF BEST DISTANCE still waiting for a home when I’m finished, but if I put them all in one place right now the results will be far too impenetrable and overwhelming. My plan is to finish/mix the songs in need of finishing/mixing, record thirty or forty more of my favourites, and then shave things down to about the best hundred tracks and call it a day. Somewhere between seventy and eighty songs have already been recorded in one form or another. Otherwise it’s just going to keep swelling up to increasingly grotesque proportions until I give up on ever coming anywhere near finishing it. I decided it was time to buckle down and conquer the thing while it was still something I might be able to do without imploding. There are now well over two hundred songs that have been written with this album in mind, in addition to countless ideas that range from half-there songs to riffs or sketches not yet fully formed enough to know what they want to be. “Ambitious” is a bit of an understatement when it comes to this thing. Finally putting a concerted effort into pulling together all the disparate threads of this album called THE ANGLE OF BEST DISTANCE, which I’ve been working on here and there over the past three years or so.I touched on what I’m working on in the last few posts, but in more graphic detail it looks like this.
Rest assured, I’ve been insanely busy on the music front, which is the main reason for my lack of rambling lately. I’ve tried to make my posts about ten times more long-winded than usual to compensate. I apologize for the blog slacking to the two or three people who might keep up with what’s going on around these parts. And I’m not talking about my digestive adventures. June has been a bit of an off month for me in terms of keeping things regular around here. Side Projects (the Short-Lived and the Miscellaneous).Ron Leary – Musicians Make Great Construction Workers (2020).Zarasutra – The Forest for the Trees (2017).Zarasutra – Uncertain Assertions (2014).Travis Reitsma – Outside The Factory Gates (2010).Soul Crossing – Four Songs in July (2000).Soul Crossing – Overdubs Are Evil (2000).Soul Crossing – The Chris-Anna Express (2000).Jesse Topliffe – Giovanni’s Glissando (1999).Medium-Fi Music for Mentally Unstable Young Lovers (2011).The Chicken Angel Woman with a Triangle (2008).Out-takes, Misfits, and Other Things (1999-2007).Nostalgia-Triggering Mechanism EP (2005).Who You Are Now Is Not What You Were Before (2005).The Lifeline & Twisted Happenings of…/WOHIS (2000).Live at the Naked Giraffe Theater (1999).Yamaha YPR-20/Pencil Box Sessions (1994).