The Beauty of Doing

     So, since I feel like I opened up a whole new can of worms in my last post: I feel inspired to follow it up with further explanations and explorations. For instance, at this very moment, Scobra is in the home studio laying down AMAZING live bass tracks on our song Dirty Trick. See, that's one of the really exciting things about finishing the album right now! You may think that you know what certain songs sound like (at least, that's what I thought). But once you open them up, and start playing with the fabric, laying down or adding to it, cutting some away, seeing what sort of form it takes... Well, some of our songs that I thought already had their classic sound to them - are now even more superlative.

     For the record {not the one we are finishing, but for documentation ;) }, I never thought that I would make music of my own in this life. Even though I did it during all of my childhood. And then studied the craft of doing other people's work, I stopped doing my own, and didn't even care that I had lost that ability. To be perfectly frank, I was also lucky enough to be surrounded by several musical geniuses, professionals, icons, and utter failures ( all different categories of people, not necessarily all the same person... although whose to say a few aren't in a few as well...) and so to put myself out there in that arena was something that I never figured myself to be even creatively capable of. So in embarking upon music once again since then, I have had an amazingly fun and free time getting to be a part of so many more musical aspects of it than just the vocals. Everyone is having fun at trying out any and/or everything! Some of what has come from it is pure GOLD! And it's a blast!

     Perhaps I am blissful, but delirious. I cannot deceive you that this has been or is a simple or painless process. And we have been regularly pulling 16-18 hour days at this for the last 5 weeks now. It's been pretty non-stop. But sometimes I find, in any art form, that when you quit thinking about what you're trying to do, and just jump in and do it - the end product is much less pretentious, and much more beautiful.  

-Dion Vox