Hall Of Ghosts in top 10 Overplay chart

The track Giant Water is currently at #10 on Overplay's indie download chart.

http://overplay.com/Chart.aspx

Halfway To Here

That's 5/9 in the bag. "A Random Quiet" is the latest track to be mixed. I'm not going to post it anywhere. It's a haunting song arranged for just voice and piano and will probably be the last song on the album.

Still to mix :

"Hall of Ghosts" : cool acoustic riff and percussion. One of the most interesting on the album.
"Tonight, It's Over" : alt country with pedal steel. Nice, laid back tune.
"Bye Bye, Big Blue" : my favourite of the new songs. Will open the album

plus :

"I Remember Old Computer" : likely be last to be mixed as the arrangement needs changing. It's the drums holding it back. Gives me a chance to now get closer to the sound I have in my head.

Cabin Fever!

Essential for album mixing : Belgian beers!!

Giant Water

Another new song today. Giant Water was one of the first new songs written for this LP.

Giant Water (mp3) by hallofghosts

Giant Water


Step into the giant water
I'm listening
Though I am shouting at the top of my lungs
Let the water surround you
Time is forgotten
I'm holding your hand
Forever
The tide won't take us down
Though I'm fearful
Of the hated clouds coming round
Nothing will break us again
I swim slow-motion
No ending
The years we knew like ripples
They fall through your hands
Come with me
No rescue
A lifetime treading water
It comes speeding past
Forever
The tide won't take us down
Though I'm fearful
Of the hated clouds coming round
Nothing will break us again
This isn't happening
I won't believe in it this day
Shivers shaded me from hue
Red to blue
The days grow shorter
In the giant water
Step into the giant water
I'm listening

Old Computer Instrumental

Old Computer Instrumental (mp3) by hallofghosts

Mix Update

One more song done and dusted : Old Computer Instrumental which will be winging its way to this website very soon. Just got to decide whether I like it's laid back, spacey feel or whether to varispeed it up a bit. It's actually an old Additional Moog demo - more about that next time. Anyways, if you recall Nintendo SNES and Sega Master system circa 89-91 then this one's for you.

The song I'm in the middle of mixing right now is a new one called Giant Water. This has maybe got an ELO/Jeff Lynne meets Gram Parsons thing going in. It's taking some mixing because there are several layers of guitars that need to be interwoven correctly. I likes it.

You'll notice I don't really do Twitter as yet and I'm highly unlikely to join Facebook. However, feel free to share links and mp3's yo'selves, at least until the CD/24 bit download of the album is ready!

Volunteers

Volunteers by hallofghosts

"Volunteers" is the second track to be mixed from the upcoming LP. It's a fairly uptempo rock tune with a bit of a soul feel to it.

I am a volunteer in this life 
giving myself without return
there's nothing answered in me

I am a translator of your heart
open sky and empty road
this is what we planted

I'll not come up for air
a grey-blue abyss
like an empty kiss

We are all just volunteers
fighting a lost cause
as a lifetime rolls out to the past
I know this will last
I know we will last

I am a visitor to your dreams
even though we'll never meet
you'll feel me living on through you

I am an evergreen on this hill
weather was never my enemy
not when I had you near to me

I'll not come up for air
a grey-blue abyss
like an empty kiss

We are all just volunteers
fighting a lost cause
as a lifetime rolls out to the past
I know this will last
I know we will last

I'll hear you singing
in an unlocked room
your smile is with me always
i'll hold on tight so you won't let go
don't leave me on my own
don't leave me on my own

We are all just volunteers
Here we are




If you like : Neil Young, the Band, Wilco, REM