ALTERNATIVE MUSIC

You can now download and listen to our songs at our hosted website at www.betarecords.com/kickspace. We've put the first 3 songs that we recorded, i.e. Be Thankful (2 versions, the first one and 2nd more improved one), I Had You and Mighty Hand. However, I Had You and Mighty Hand had some editing problems towards the last few seconds of each song, it got cut off abruptly. Our producer Mr. Morgan is currently fixing this little problem. We'll upload the fixed versions sometime next week. Comments are most welcome!

We finally got I'll Never Leave You All Alone sorted out, the music sequence and parts for all instruments plus vocals. It sounded different from the other four songs we've done because I tried to add some grunge feel to the intro and chorus parts while maintaining the mellowish verses. I decided to retain the instrumental bridge part to add more flavour to the whole song. Tonight I planned to have a recording session with Morgan, don't know if our drummer is available or not. We were gonna do Falling Sun.

We're gonna try and do our own recording after this. Alvin has downloaded a well-known music producing software so we'll be experimenting with it very soon. Supposed to be user-friendly, you don't have to be Einstein to use it. Only need to get a MIDI interface cable so we can record our instruments directly into the pc. This'll be good for doing experiments since none of us have any good experience with music editing, recording or mixing. Trial and error's the way to go.

Right, we will have to finish the last two songs before Xmas since we're all gonna be too busy to do it after that. On Monday I plan to bring the guys for a final jam session to do Beneath the Falling Sun and do work on All Alone before we finalise that one. Beneath is more or less there, I just need to sort out all the guitar parts. We got comments from some listeners who gave us their honest opinion on the 3 songs we've recorded. Basically the tunes are OK but the musica arrangement needs to be more solid and full, at the moment it's rather "empty" they say. OK I know what to do in the next 2 recordings. Vocal-wise, there is an apparent lack of emotion involved in delivering the song. Apart from slight pitching errors at some parts, the most important aspect would be the songs' inability to capture the listener's emotion and get them to what what they are supposed to feel. Dudes, don't ever think it's easy being a musician and a songwriter. The toughest part is your listeners. If they can't appreciate what they are listening to, then the work is nowhere near good. Ok back to the drawing board.

I'm planning to post the songs we've recorded in betarecords.com so a wider audience can have taste of Kickspace. Next week then.