Last night marked the end of this 3rd New Ancients album work. I got started early and fought with (and almost lost) one last guitar line for "Thy Ancient Power". The song was initially going to be left off this recording as it was sounding a bit to "country" and not at all like the rest of the album. Max re-recorded a line for the head of the song that seemed to bring it back to New Ancients Land and with that, it makes the cut. Also, Leah came in and sang We Beseech Thee in literally ONE TAKE. So now with 4 lead vocals recorded for this song, the winners are clearly Anthony and Leah... not that emily and i didn't sound good... (actually, i didn't, i can tell you that)... it's just Leah and Anthony sounded "right" for the song.
Soooo... next steps are as follows:
1) on to disc mastering. This will most likely be going down the week after next, as i have a wedding this week and a show with The Ringout out in PA the week after... both events are going to require me to put in some serious work. Once this is mastered, look for 3 songs or so on the New Ancients myspace and facebook pages.
2) Art! Dave Ulrich (did the first 2 CDs) is doing the art for this one again as well. I have no idea what the CD layout will look like at this point, but he says he has ideas.
3) Once 1 and 2 are done, it's off for duplication.. figure a month after that and they will be available. So definitely for the start of this summer.
Whew.. what a relief. That was a hard album to do and i need a break. Rather than starting on the 4th right away (who am i kidding.... it's already kind of started... shhhh) we are going to do another Christmas 3 or 4 songer this year... so get ready for that. Last years' was fun to do and we figured since we have the material, why not.
