Weird. I feel weird. The last nine months have been focused on the album. Writing, editing, singing, practicing, recording, coordinating musicians, my schedule has been all about the album.
I finished recording the last song.
Frankly, it was anticlimactic. I had a good chat with my producer, and walked out the multiple soundproof doors, like I regularly have for the past four months. Except. That was it. My job in the studio is done. It seems only yesterday I was laying the scratch tracks while sick with the flu.
Now, months later, after many mugs of tea, and minus the flu, the final tracks have been mixed and mastered. Unquenchable Hope releases May 26th.
I'm waiting for the artwork to be finished, then everything will be sent off to be printed.
Weird.
It's weird to have to shift focus, and realize recording wasn't the end, it was the end of the beginning.
My time in the studio was it's own adventure, filled with laughter, tears, and learning curves.
Creating Unquenchable Hope has been full of surprises and challenges. I have no idea what to expect next. It might be a huge success, beyond the horizons of what I could dream.
Or, like a shooting star, it could blaze for a moment, then disappear.
It's already done the job I intended for it--an outlet for my emotions. The rest is up to God.
But, if I were to dream out loud, my desire is that the EP (extended play, industry speak for my project) would touch you, deeply. That you would cry with me, and come out celebrating your battle scars, emotional, physical, or both.
Unquenchable Hope.
It's an ambitious title to live up to.
The thing is, I'm not referring to myself ;)
