Inbetween before & after

It took me quite a while to write another blog-post. I'm still staying on the island Rhodes, and we're fooling around about permanently renting a small flat in the village. As you can see on the photo, it is always nice to have a walk up the hill to see the lights of the village in the evening. Quite inspiring view!

As for the music, I had ordered a budget guitar in Germany, just days before we travelled to Greece. It has finally been delivered last week and to my surprise it is absolutely flawless and very nice to play. My fingers need practice and I'm trying to figure out if my songs work as a repertoire for a one-man-band. It looks like so do and some don't. 

I have also finished the basic recording for a new song with the title "In-between before and after". I'll give you more details about it in a separate post later on. There are three more songs, I'm working on bit by bit. One of it is based on a new idea, that I developed just recently. The other two are radically new approaches on songs, that didn't make it on earlier releases. It feels like both songs have a very special quality. Unfortunately the versions we were working on in the past as a band, didn't really take off for various reasons. So I decided to give it another try from a complete different perspective and leave everything behind, apart from the basic chord-structure and lyrics. As I don't have all my equipment available here, some ideas cannot be realised properly, but it feels like there's a fresh vibe to the songs, that helps me forget about the parts, that didn't work with those earlier versions. 

By now, I don't have an idea, where the whole thing goes. Hopefully it will develop into a conception for a new album. I'm curious and it feels like the right thing to do.

Stay tuned!

Love & sun

Dieter@starfish64