After many long months of development, I finally have enough music written and improvised for a third album! Unless I can come up with a better title, it will be called "Dai Sakusen", after the title track.
I'm rather proud of myself, if one may be so bold -- on the last two albums, there were a lot of short songs and one really long song. In both cases, "Terra-Metrics". If it hadn't been for that song, Utopia wouldn't have happened -- at the time, "Terra" was just over nine minutes in length, bringing the total album duration to just over 20 minutes. In Autumn State, I re-recorded "Terra", which shortened it to about 8:45. Still rather long. But, "Terra" can't get any better than it was in Autumn State, so I'm not including it in Dai Sakusen. I decided that at a fairly early stage... meaning I couldn't use its sheer length as a crutch (as portion-control, if you like) to write less music.
Here's the track list as it stands now...
1. Dai Sakusen! (The Grand Adventure)
2. The Paved Frontier
3. SIMesthesia
4. If the Walls Could Talk
5. Night Drive
6. Rain on the Road
7. City Sunset
8. An Autumn State of Mind (Spiny McSpleen's Theme)
9. Freshmen 4 Ever
To offset the lack of "Terra" in this album, I decided to compose longer songs. The shortest one is the improvised, "If the Walls Could Talk", lasting only 1:53. The longest is "City Sunset" at 5:48. The average song time on the whole album is about 2:55. The total duration is 28:23.
Of course, there is a slight problem in the distribution process. All right, two problems. Problem one: I don't have a radio programme anymore. Even if the host of the programme before mine was an arrogant bastard, at least I had a means by which I could debut my own music. Problem two: I don't have a Facebook account anymore. I maintained a "J Sebastian Perry" fan page there where I would update my fans (all six of them) about new compositions and albums.
So, essentially, I have the finished product, but no way of making people aware of it.
Never mind.
