Right On!

Here it is. And here's the Paypal link by which it can be ordered.
Have at it!!

-pete

A Master Emerges....Along With an Album Name....

well there it is in all it's done-ness:


The finals were delivered late this past friday from Alan Douches at West West Side Music, and they do sound wonderful. The album is called "Every Branch a Quill" and has 13 pretty powerful songs. This record should be blasted as loud as you can bear it upon first listen. Keep your eyes closed too... invite some friends to join you...
The great Dave Ulrich passed off the artwork for the layout to us last week too... so tonight instead of working on recordings we will be readying the package for the press plant so we can get these things into your hands ASAP. I know this album seems like it will never actually materialize, but trust me, it wont be long now. I was hoping to be saying that late last year - but lots of things conspire to foil your plans. Oh Well. I promise though, it will be worth the wait. There is some really good stuff on this. I'd also like to ask everyone to help us out in funding this - as it was a pretty expensive record to make - i'd like to get it paid off as quickly as we can - not because we're making any money off of it - but it will allow us to make another one next year (which has already been started). So here's how you can help:

1) extra crumpled dollars!!! if you have any - donate!! if you go to http://www.theorb.org and donate via paypal and designate that it's for the New Ancients Music - we will get that $$ and it will go towards offsetting the cost of the production. You can also send donations directly to us at Submergent Music using this paypal button below - if you choose to drop us some love using this you will receive the CD and a bunch of other free goodies in the mail. Give it a try.

2) SHOWS. if you go to a church that would be into getting the band to come and play a service or an event, if you run a coffee house, club, living room or basement show, etc etc, - contact me (pete@submergentmusic.com) - and we'll talk shop.
3) Spread the word about this music. Since this is a band made up entirely of people who have full time jobs and families and other bands - we don't tour and play out - so we don't do any work to get exposure... but word of mouth is a powerful and potent tool for this. talk it up!
4) Actually BUY the music when it's available. This is huge. If you do get the CD (this goes for the 1st one as well).... make sure you actually bought it. If you made a copy of it from a friend or downloaded it you just took 10 bucks from me. 10 bucks that would have been great to put towards paying for the art that i worked so very hard to make with NO ONE paying me to do so in the first place. Get it? I know it's easy to just make copies or download CD's by big rich rock stars without a hit on your conscience - but just remember us sitting in a junky little basement studio making these CDs: None of us drove Hummers to those sessions.

Cool - stay tuned for more news..... Pete

This is it....



All mixed and ready for the business by Mr. Alan Douches at West West Side Music. The disc has been sent off and we should being hearing the final product in mid February. What a relief to have this project done. It was definitely the most involved and complex recording i've ever done to date - i need to do some dumbed down rock projects for a bit - stuff with less track counts. This stuff was exhausting to mix!

Tracking DONE!
yes sir-ee-bob, we are finally done with the recording phase for this album. Last night i was finally able to pin Jeff Ulrich down for a few hours (most likely by the offer of a sweet chilli dinner and a Blue Moon Belgian White) to record vocals for Be Thou My Vision. All that's left now is a few mix tweaks and it's time to contact the mastering people.
Not Long Now...

Oooo it's been a while... but we have good news. This CD is almost done!
it's true... as of the last entry in this blog it seems we had just finished the EP. Well, lots of time has past and lots of sessions were done since then... we are now on the cusp of finishing all of it. As of now, one more vocal track needs to be done by Jeff, and i am putting final tweaks on the mixes. I'm also doing little tidbits of "bonus" tracking.... for example, it was requested (begged and pleaded) by one friend who gave me the Stagemaster guitar (see pic) that i use it on something. Ok, no problem.



Also (this is a good one); my friend Matt told me a story about how when he was in grade school he was asked on the night of a recorder recital by the band director "not to play at all, just move your fingers". I guess he was so bad the teacher did not want him to ruin the 3rd grader performance... as if that were really possible in the first place. He wanted to know if i could record him playing the recorder on "anything on the CD" so that he could mail a copy to his old teacher with a note attached saying something to the effect of "Eat It Mrs. Acosta!!". So we had him over on monday and worked hard on figuring out how to fit one hell of an out of tune plastic whistle into one of the songs. Check 'em out:

Here's the EP!
The New Ancients "These Burdens EP" will be in the studio tomorrow and we are taking orders now at this page here. Sooo many sessions have been done since the last update i don't have time to write about it all now.. but i just found this:
Soul Searching. This is a trailer for the movie that features "Dying Faith" and has a bunch of ORB footage. Check it out... there are some familiar faces in this thing.

Artwork underway!
Brian Jones has begun the artwork for the EP - here's a little taste of what we might see for a cover for this thing:





Excellent. No recording was done last night (at least by me) as a bunch of us attended a CD release show for a band called Aqua Closet who i produced an EP for a couple months ago. Great show - unfortunately this was their last one before they all go off to different colleges. Pop over to their myspace to get a sample. Here's a shot of the action... notice Matt Littlehale's head in the foreground:





As for the New Ancients' work - i did finish yet another song over the weekend ("Stars of Light") - so that brings us to 4 totally done and about 4 more poised for completion. We're getting there.