New album release: “Just Few Things”

Life and stuff as usual happend, again – we’ll get back to the “redwinds” shortly. But for now, I can finally say: A new album is out!

Cooking this up for over a year now, I started producing the first bits and pieces roughly early last year – and thought I “might come up with a fresh album soon!” That wasn’t exactly the case, but for various reasons. Mainly, I really wanted to grow as a musician. And that in return meant: Sitting down and learning.

So I did! I listened, and listened, and listened, to a whole bunch of other musicians, producers, from Indie to the big ones, and really tried to figure out what makes “good sound” actual “good sound”. What directions do I want to take? What directions can you take? Where’s the limits – and how far can I come, doing everything myself, from the very start up to the final mastering?

Mind you: I still consider myself a rookie, and I’m far from what any professional could do, obviously. But I think it’s fair to say that, compared to my first released EP, I’ve come a long way and did indeed learn a few tricks on this wildly interesting journey called “music production”.

“Just Few Things” is out now, as a Bandcamp exclusive (for the time being at least), and I am really happy with what I achieved here.

I might drop a bit more about it soon, cause there’s certainly some specific aspects I might want to talk about a bit more in detail. There’s a reason I called this my “blood, sweat and tears” release, after all, since there were times where I doubted I could achieve what I had envisioned. But I can confidently say: This is pretty much what I wanted it to be and I’m super happy to have it finally released after all this time!

I obviously did enjoy making this album and I really hope you get to enjoy it as well!

Redwind week5/2024

A slow week? A slow week. A very slow, slow week.

Games

Still mostly just trying to finish the Shogun variant of “Kingdom: Two Crowns”, and I get the feeling it doesn’t help much that I mostly play it on my iPhone while laying in bed and falling asleep – since I do exactly that: Fall asleep. Only to wake up next morning to a fresh character, back on island 1, since I died again. Well, at least that’s certainly one way to expand on the play time, and additionally this may also confirm that this game is sure a very chill one.

Also just saw a bit earlier that currently “Red Faction Guerrilla: Remarstered” was on sale for about 3 bucks on the eShop and just couldn’t resists. Played it back on the 360, so I’ll be looking forward to some fine destruction soon again. Expect crushing updates maybe next week.

Cineast

A lot of people say “bonding is important”, so I did just that – sat down with a friend and watched some Bond. “Casino Royal” it was this time, since she hadn’t seen it yet and I was totally in the mood to give it a rewatch. And what can I say: Still as entertaining as ever and possible my personal favourite Bond movie. Not that I haven’t seen it about 30-40 times by now, but it seems like I’m very much in a comfy mood lately anyway, so that fit perfectly. I still have to watch that latest entry with Craig, though, so hopefully we’ll see about that soon.

Music

Mostly just back to the desk with my own stuff – and making some very, very good progress. If it continues like that, I’ll probably release that album soon’ish. After all, I’ve been working on that beast for almost a year now. But I can admit: Sent around a few previews for a couple of songs and so far only getting back positive feedback – and I certainly really like what I’m hearing here, so there’s that!