In order to have the right focus, you must focus right

Before I go in to the details of the recording process I would like to shed some light in to the often romanticized world of songwriting. Great songwriters like Bob Dylan, Rivers Cuomo and Jari Kuusisto all have gone to great lengths following their inner muse and landed to similar methods of crafting a song.

Not unlike these world reknowned artists I have also, sometimes desperately, struggled with that muse, totally immersing myself in to self-analysis and reflection in order to reach a higher level of depth and consistency in my art. I tried everything from meditation to recreational drugs until i by trial and error stumbled upon the same exact method these all time greats have used for decades.

Bob Dylan wrote:

"It's like a ghost is writing the song l. It gives you the song and it goes away. You don't know what it means. Except the ghost picked me to write the song."

What Robert is trying to say here is that you can't force or overthink the process. The song will come to you. Most of the songwriting work is subliminal, the less you think the greater will the outcome be. These days when i retreat to my workroom i have no prescribed idea of what i will be working on, instead of woodshedding on some skeletal fragment of an existing tune i go straight ahead and write a new one.

In this newfound creative state i quickly demoed about 250 songs during a year with my trusty Tascam 2488 mk2(nothing fancy, just something i set up in my workroom for quick sketches). On a good day i was able to complete 20 full song ideas in a day with the tunes just flowing through me. Some of these songs like "Josephine" and "I totally understand pt. 1 and pt.2" will most likely be on the album.