Intense and excited

Lots of heavin’ up going on in the world. I’ve landed in a huge room in a new pad in San Francisco. Rumor has it the landlord’s getting ready to sell the building so I don’t think it’s a permanent place, but I hope it’ll at least last me 6 months, enough time to get my next two recording projects out.

Putting the finishing touches on the final mix of The Missing Song, which I recorded last weekend and had such a brilliant, incredible, awe-inducing and productive weekend recording and mixing it. I’m incredibly pleased with the result. I had no idea it would turn out like this, and I’m amazed, and moved to have the project start to gain some real momentum. I’ll share more about it later, and the song, too, when I get the final mix back from the Magic Gadget Studios (what a great name for a recording studio, huh?). In the meantime, I’ve gotten a commitment from CivicActions to build the technical infrastructure for this viral project designed to find missing children and adults around the world. Over 200,000 children and 80,000 adults are reported missing each year. Most of the time, they find granny wandering in the backyard or Saralyn asleep in a big linen drawer, but often times, the reasons a loved one goes missing is more tragic. More tragic still is the possibility that lost loved ones might be near you right now and you wouldn’t know it without happening to go to the post office or getting a half-gallon of milk.

Anyway, I’ve got to get back to making the final notes for the mix, and then work on the trailer for the project, a 1 minute video explanation of how it all works. I don’t know if this is realistic or not, but I’m going to release the project on Christmas Eve in some form or fashion.