I've given 'Aliens and Lasers' some serious consideration over the last week. This has seemed to be a terminal back burner project which actually began life as a joke! It was initailly meant to be an instrumental rock/fusion album which was serious compositions, but a parody of the instrumental rock albums which have been made by certain players! I've held out on making it for a long time in favour of my ensemble based projects Turquoise Noise and Ensemble Craft (I much prefer the idea of being part of a band than being a lone wolf soloist with assistance from other players). The incentive I've had to actually make this has been in the form of a lot of positive comments and questions from the good folk who frequent the Northern Guitar Shows about certain riffs, or melodic lines which have been within the compositions for 'Aliens and Lasers'. That 'unofficial' critical feedback gave me a push to complete it and get it out into the world.  

This album shouldn't take me too long to complete at all. All demos for the compositions have been completed for some years, and any minor tweaks should be done with minimal time consumption with todays level of technology. I'm targetting getting this completed by the end of January 2009. At this stage, I'm going to give myself the incentive to work hard on this album by declaring in black and white that if this album isn't complete by the end of January 2009, I will have either had a serious amount of unforseen circumstnces to contend with, or I've been slacking off! 

Spiritual Atrophy still going strong, and on schedule! I'm going to be making some videos of performances of some of the Spiritual Atrophy tunes which should be online by early November. I'll post notification on here when they're online.