I am sure a few people who follow me, will have noticed that I have started releasing some of my demo ideas, as part of a Demo Collection Series.
So far I have released three EP's for streaming and purchase from the majority of the popular music platforms.
These are ideas I started, but unfortunately, never finished for one reason or another. They have been mixed and mastered for release, but what you hear, is basically what I completed of the tracks at the time. All of them are sitting in almost first or second stage and would have been what I created at the time of writing them.
The first EP is the ‘et venient dies’ idea. This was meant to be five instrumental tracks, all with latin titles and based around times of the day. It was started over a two day period in 2020, but I kind of got distracted and moved onto other ideas, that turned into proper songs. Only three tracks were started and they are on the release - luce prima, crepusculum and nocte.
The second EP - ‘The Silent Cinema’, was started in December 2020, as a hark back to the type of dance music from the 1990's. This was an idea derived from a conversation I had with Dave Allen (Better in the Dark on X) and was going to be a project, where we created the music and possibly the lyrics and (hopefully) got a female singer to do the vocals.
Three tracks were started at that time, but it didn't go much further than that. We then approached the idea again in December 2022, with a further two tracks being written, but again, the idea came to nothing. The tracks started in 2020 were But Not Tonight, Call of the Sea and Cross the Rubicon and the tracks in 2022 were, Dawn of a New Era and Dance the Night. Only Dance the Night has a rough vocal idea, which I did at the time. Most of the titles were temporary.
The EP title comes from the project name we had come up with.
The third EP - ‘A Cautionary Tale’, was something I wrote in a couple of hours, over a two day period in November 2019. The idea was to create something along the lines of NIN, but as if Jigsaw Sequence had written it.
I had been talking to Chris Wilburn (Upon Eventual Collapse on X) and James Reyna (Melodywhore) at the time, as we had thought about doing a project together in this style. The project was given a name of The Skeleton Brothers and we mucked about with a couple of ideas, but again, it didn't go anywhere.
Chris heard two of the tracks - You and I and The Long Walk and asked if he could put some guitar on it. I loved the result and only wish I had got him to do the other three tracks as well. The other tracks are Tear it Down, Watch Me Bleed and Rise Up Again.
I always liked this EP, but didn't take it any further than what I started at the time. I have released it as I mixed it at the time, but have mastered it for your listening pleasure.
There will be more from the Demo Collection Series to come this year and I will be using my YouTube page, to put up some other unreleased or demo ideas from time to time, so you should check it out also.
Till next time,
R x