For the past few months I’ve been jotting down ideas for a new album. Like First Flight, the new release will have 10 tracks and will be recorded and mixed by yours truly. But unlike First Flight, the release will be broken up into 2-song segments, which means five separate releases.
I like this idea for two reasons. First, writing, producing, recording and mixing 10 tracks all at once is a ton of work. Second, the current state of digital distribution just begs for a more frequent release cycle.
So five little mini-releases just makes sense — it’s easier, and it means that more music comes out sooner. And after all five, I’ll wrap the 10 tracks together in a proper release.
Along with the music, I’m also playing around with album names and concepts. Because of the nature of the release, it’ll have to be something that can be separated out into five segments, and I’m still not sure exactly how that’s going to work out. But however it shapes up, it’ll be another release that plays on the Paper Plane Pilot name.
Some ideas I’m kicking around include (in no particular order):
- Permission to Land
- Flight Log
- Captain’s Log
- Cruising Altitude
- Air Traffic Control
- Takeoffs and Landings
- Crash Landing
I’m still a few months away from releasing the first segment and finalizing the album concept, so get in touch or leave a comment if you have any thoughts. Thanks for listening!
You know I was thinking of the same idea… like more frequent releases to keep up w/ the facebook twitter generation.
Or perhaps putting out only EPs, rather than full length CDs. That and b/c I’d it’s much easier to have only 4 songs that fit together in a musical suite than a whole CD. Allows for more different musical ideas…
Keats — February 21, 2010 #
That too. I like the idea of 10 or so songs as a collection — 4 or less sometimes leaves you wanting more — but waiting a year or two to get 10 songs together doesn’t seem to make sense with distribution today.
Dustin — February 23, 2010 #