1: The Great Exhale

I was working on a song called Cyclical Meloncholy - which also was shortened to Cm, to represent it actually being in C minor. This was something I had floating around since 2020, in some epic Pink Floyd type synth rock tune. It had a little melody and some words, but nothing sat right with me, so it was shelved for years and years - circling back to clean up sounds and eq, but never to add anything else or change it.

So, I sat a bit, listened to my 5 year old unfinished recording, and the ska / upbeat part just clicked. I was so motivated with how it was progressing, I reworked the entire song structure, incorporating the ska, but also redoing all the lyrics and melodies - which meant cutting my original up into different sections and building all new.

It shifted then from Cyclical Meloncholy to The Great Exhale, and the first song of my TBD album is near finished - needs minor mixing and mastering…