Dear all
A belated new year to you all. Hope everyone is keeping well.
Apologies for the extended silence but I have finally managed to move house and we are looking to extend to help with the production of future music. That's the plan though, things don't always happen that way (not in this family anyway). All things hopeful, we should be able to breathe a bit more in the next few months when it all gets done. We will see.
MIXCLOUD vs SOUNDCLOUD
I have now shut down the Mixcloud site as they were putting pressure on me for populating it with "real music" and not rubbish podcasts which they told me was it's sole use. Well, it's their loss, as I am now starting to populate Soundcloud (BUT no cover versions will be allowed there, which is a shame). If you have any requests for songs etc to be loaded up, do please contact me and I will do whatever I can.
What I am most upset by is that I have lost the connection that I had grown with people over on the old Mixcloud site, and have to seemingly start all over again. It's so galling and just another of the industry's knock at any attempts I make. Let's see if we can regain any of this in the near future. I am close to giving it all up though, I hate most of the new muzak that I hear, yet get knock-downs like this. It's quite depressing.
That all said, I have some projects that I would like to see through at the very least; one is the 40 (or even 50) year retrospective set of a selection of all the things I have produced over the years. Add to this the Krisp double CD set that was mastered by me some three years ago that is still needing "finishing". I need to find all the art that is needed for its cover, it will include some rarities from rehearsals as well as the last ever Krisp gig at Chiswick House near Hammersmith.
So.. this one makes it THREE : the final recordings big project that has never got fully started. I have had several faltering attempts at it over recent years; whether I revisit those recordings to be included needs to be thought about hard. There are a couple of brand new items that I would like to use, it would be sad to put them in the bin to be totally discarded (especially having written new pieces of music the first time in decades), but it needs some heart and soul searching first. There are some further re-recordings of old material waiting to be revisited too.
So, all in all, a new year of some variation. Things ahead should be interesting, if I don't allow the knocks of the Mixcloud issue to effect me too badly.
DO please visit and folllow what occurs over at https://soundcloud.com/steve-good-7 if you can.
All the very best for a fabulous 2015.
Steve
Even Newer-Port
25 Jan 2015