So here I am, with my big bald head in my hands, in an all too familiar damp, dark pit. I know that I have to find the strength again from somewhere to clamber out of the gloom and, if I can manage to do that whilst scaling these near impossible vertical walls, I also have another frayed end to tie up ... to finish the new Unique 3 album with whatever bit of flair and imagination that I can manage to muster up. Everyone has a mate who makes music now, go ask them, they will tell you that putting an album together is cruel and painful fun. The whole embryonic process of turning an initial idea into a working new track, then forcing that piece of music or song along the route it will take, up to the point you feel it is finished and ready for general consumption is mind grating, exhilarating and heavily depressive stuff but massively rewarding all the same. But try pulling twelve or more pieces of music out of your tired arse, well! ... THAT’S a whole different animal! If you DO get to the finish line with a bag of tracks that you feel you should share with the world, THEN try giving each track a semi interesting name, a name that has not been used this year about a thousand times or more already. Try coming up with an original theme for the artwork for your new album, art that you can wrap up over a year’s creative work in, art that conveys your message as an individual artist, the message entrenched in your music, art that attracts the attention of potential buyers to your music.... I suppose that if all that was easy, EVERY fucker would be doing it! (they are! - editor) So, I was only just holding off a rapidly incoming bout of depression, frantically trying to finish the new Unique 3 album, before my will gave in and I took to a darkened room with only a half full brandy bottle for fun. I was so very near, yet still so very far away from that elusive finish line (the finish line that I had set myself 18 months previous, it being twelve completed tracks - this, I had decided, would be audio enough to actually CALL a next album)
LSD Magazine - Issue 10 - Inception
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