A Creative peak is around the corner

Okay so not much has been released except for Christmas songs and cover versions and old material, well don't be alarmed i haven't gone cabaret on your ass am not a sell out like most of the contentious people out there or give us the same old drivel!

I am starting a new and the 1st thing to come hopefully soon when i finish the vocals is 4 new collaborations so please stay tuned as the music that i have been given is killer! And i can't wait to add my parts to these amazing musical moments :)

2nd On my list is getting back to my new work, i say work as the idea of selling an Album or EP sounds ridiculous to me, sometimes, especially when no one buys your last album, plus not being represented is difficult as it is, and as no one takes notice of anything i do the idea of me saying am following up an album just sounds funny to me!

Anyway the new tracks are coming along at a slow pace i know but they are coming, the music is a complete 180 directional turn of the last album and style, here the music breaths in a different genre and mood to the last out pourings that i gave you, here new beats and sounds and instruments fit together like a Dali Painting, soon i will add words poems thoughts to these sounds and hopefully songs will be born!!

My other offerings cannot be said yet so thats all your getting.... Though i have thought about making a film?

Anyway its a new year and a new start so stay tuned and tell your friends

EVOLVE OR DIE

E

Something New something borrowed something blue

Okay quick update for all you blog fans i know who you are :)

Well the new project for The Calm Project has begun, i have been collecting sounds and noises for a month now and been writing little motifs to work on, the ideas have only just been coming together and there are a lot of beginnings, lets hope they reach to the end, as the sound and concept is a new direction and far from Ghost Tapes Mood and Sound....

I have asked for people to come play who might play something different from guitars bass and drums, i am looking for new textures and new sounds, so the weirder the better is all i will say right now, so anything from Cello, to spoons will be cool in my books!

I am also thinking of trying some new vocal directions as i would like to perform as a trumpet or flute rather than a singer, words are getting in the way right now and i feel i want to discover something new within myself!

I am always open to new ideas and new music so if you think there is something i should listen too or read or watch then please let me know :)

If you haven't read in my previous blog i have been ill, and am waiting to work on some new music and ideas soon for some amazing musician friends of mine, i am hoping to start work on these soon and have them at least done before Christmas, i just can't afford to make myself ill again so fingers crossed for that!

As for Ghost Tape album download, it seems it reached a small audience and didn't move from there, i will still hopefully be gigging the Ghost Tape material, i still think it has a lot of development in terms of life after the record, but as i don't get offered gigs and have to put my own on, according to a certain person LIverpool music scene for alternative acts is thriving, i say your a fucking joke! So then next gig, who knows? Because i certainly don't!!!!

I would like to end with a small bid to either Ninja Tune or Warp, or any electronic label, come listen and give me some money, "there my first act of weakness" lol

EVOLVE OR DIE

E

Sick

Hello people that care and people that don't....

This is just a frustrated blog of being ill and being a musician, well i seem to have developed a virus from a cold i had, and its still not gone, it doesn't help being cold and living in a cold flat, or being poor! The breathless gasps of air that i try to inhale seem to disappear and tease me, into wanting to actually breath!!

I find it so frustrating that i can't do much or sing or even exercise, its becoming such a pain in the arse right now :(

I want to make music and sing on tracks but i am getting know where fast, and it feels like i am not recovering one bit, this is pissing me off loads, and i feel like stopping for a long time!

Art in the face of disgust

Okay to the small number of people who read my blog i thank you and love your respect and passion for The Calm Project...

Well Ghost Tape was released last month and a few people bought it who i love and respect, some family well one, and the others musician friends i met online, who i respect and love, they are true artists and musicians who appreciate new music and support others, this is now becoming a rare thing especially in this day and age, i have felt zero support else where between people i know, people i have helped along the way, and people who i consider friends! This hurt me more than you will ever know, and for that i can never forgive them...

To sum it all up through out my life i have been to other peoples gigs supported their music and helped as much as i can this would often include traveling for other an hour to watch and be there for them, who people i have given my musical mind as well as instruments to borrow and been a friend, ever since that, i though it would be reciprocated back, oh how i was wrong on many fucking levels!!!!

On a personal level i have maybe not been around as much these days and thats down to being broke and having no money, and it seems for me that is not enough or even forgiven, i have never felt so let down by people in all my life, and it gets me thinking has this always been the case... Because right now i feel completely alienated by "friends" and i find this so fucking sad especially when they preach friendship and love, i have felt nothing in anyways these emotions given to me, i feel numb by this!!!!!

I am not asking everyone to buy my album because i know choice and taste will collide and people will not want to own my music that is beyond fine, what i ask for is respect for me as a musician as an artists but most of all a person, for me and all the time and effort i have given to many people in return i have felt nothing, for me this is sad and very upsetting to me, as i only ask for friendship and nothing else!

The other thing is i am going to start work on new music, i am already collecting found sounds and later will hopefully be working with others on ideas and music, and to some point will be pulling all the ties together to make some new music, this project is in motion and will hopefully start to come together next year!

I am starting to wonder will this get any support as much as my last release?

I don't fucking know anymore... I always say Evolve or Die, but this is clearly not happening anymore... either way

EVOLVE OR DIE

E

BandCamp and No clues

Hello people of the interweb world its another blog by yours truly E...

Well this week was the release of Ghost Tape being sold on the genius platform that is BandCamp, I have put the album out and had some response not a massive but people have taken notice, for the people who bought it thank you:

Lucy Dann

Jasmine Eden

John Pearson

& Guido Mr Loalue :)

So if your math is like mind you will be proud to know that its 4 sales and counting will maybe not counting but 4 sales altogether so far!!!!!!

What can i say? i am stunned it did sell and i love and thank the people who bought it, it means so much you would not believe, its not being in a humble state, but a state of being so happy that i can build my confidence in people wanting to listen to my music, not going down the sentimental route but it means more than you can ever think!

Basically in my musical past, i have been over looked for being in bands, because probably not good enough for peoples egos, i never get mentioned from friends and they probably think my music isn't that great either in fact i know,and because am not playing guitar on stage, its hard to get through to people who don't understand different music, but it's what i use and do is just a different medium, because am not playing a guitar solo or playing drums on stage doesn't make me less of a musician, i know people think this, and this is why i find it difficult to communicate the music i love and want to produce!

To be loved by thousands is probably a pipe dream for me, because being loved for what i do seems to be a major struggle now, there is really only a handful of people who appreciate what i do and that's because they are open enough to listen and most important hear what i am creating, this is where most people turn off!

I think this is all comes down to popularity maybe that's why its called popular music (dumb response i know), but most cases its just generic bullshit that has no soul and is made for financial gain, this is where i turn off, music is not a competition to be won and not a popularity contest either, music is at the end of the day an art form, this is how i express myself and how i want to push myself too, the easy option is not my goal we can all learn Mustang Sally and play to dumb drunk fucks, that's a given but to actually push yourself and your creative mind to make something infinite that can stand the test of time or at least until you die! Now that's where i want to be, don't vote for me to win a competition but listen for a brief moment on something i have made, that's all i ask, being a musician and loving music is where i am in life, not playing at battle of the bands or how many people can LIKE my Facebook page, i Love music and want to express myself and that's what i do, the ironic thing is about this post is no one will read it, so that just establishes my point entirely!

Stay tuned people for the next blog which i will tell you all about my 2nd gig at Binary Jam, it should be a good one, and a small plug for the album by here if your interested :

http://thecalmproject.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-tape

Remember people Evolve or Die

E

Circuits

Hello fellow human alien deep sea dwelling people from another world, its Blog time again :)

Okay since my last blog and only 2 nights ago The Calm Project Played its first gig for more than a year now, it was good, obviously i can think of ways to improve it but i don't have the technology for what i am trying to do!

The Songs i played live were:

Leave only Footprints

Swimming in Winter

Ghosts

Save-Me

I really enjoyed being back in the thick of it and can't wait for my next gig which will be happening on the 22nd October, i will be playing 2 new songs on the night and will be up for playing and performing some more, good times were had!

The Night was also a first for Circuits Music Night a alternative music night where all sorts of music can be played under one roof, gone are the days of just bands being bands playing band music! On the bill were Gilda Bliss, Hot Hail, TBK and myself of course! And it was a successful night considering all what happened and was running up to the gig!

So what's next for The Calm Project, well to actually get around to releasing Ghost Tape, its been way too long, i am hoping this monday 10th October will be released, just need to sort out artwork and be happy with the image and what i am trying to achieve with my music and my visual side, i even on the gig tried a new look which you can see in the picture and quite like the idea of looking different on stage....

Also did 2 amazing Collaborations One with LWO Called Blood Red River, and the 2nd was a work with Autumna Called Tide Again, i provided the music and got the vocal text from my good friend and collaborator, Please check them out on my Facebook page and Enjoy :)

I am and should be working on some new ideas and collaborations which i am pretty excited about as i am writing for a female voice and i like the idea of the music being feminine and taking on both sides or universal which would be a better word... Also i am going to start working on ideas for Subject B, think its been way too long and should write some new instrumental music, thats all i can think of right now on what is happening with myself and my music, there will be more updates soon

Evolve or Die

E

Advert for Ghost Tape

Well this is a quick clip for my new album to be, "Ghost Tape" Its a new direction and sound from The Calm Project, this time looking at texture and voice rather than the orchestral sound of the past... Here i am finding the mood within the record and making it become alive within the sounds and textures i used on the record!

This is a exciting time for me as i will be performing solo as well as creating as much of the sounds live, this will be sample based but a new way of working on myself rather than being in a band, this October will also be the 1st time i have performed in over a year or more, which is scary yet i am itching to getting out there too so if you read this and are interested it will be here:

Follow me on this new path of new music....

Evolve or Die

E