Right now, there are tectonic shifts taking place: personal, professional, global. The world is currently quite mad & in dangerous disarray. The artists in a society monitor these subtle currents and respond, direct, express, focus & neutralise them as best they may. For some artists this is an intuitive process. Others, perhaps those based in a tradition, are sometimes specifically trained to balance energies which, out of wack, become dangerous, dis-eased. This line of work might be named, for example, "healing" music.
Artists in popular culture might not know the specifics or subtleties involved. But we feel that something is going on when it's going on. In this, the feelings are a better gauge of an event than cerebral processing.
Boy, I'm tired.
09.08 A call to Toyah at home, then to Adrian Belew, then to Pat Mastelotto. But Pat has already left Austin and, ironically, is on his way to World Central en route for Turkey. So, I hope to speak to Pat later. Geographical time coincidences are abounding recently.
14.22 Another four down: Real Prog, Mono Magazine, Weekly Spa!, Record Collectors. Interviewers get back what they bring to the interview. Cerebral, earnest young men tend to get earnest cerbral interviews in response to their presentation of elaborate schemes / interpretations as questions (unless I have fun and poke them gently).
This morning we moved to the other side of this visit's Great Divide. In today's interviews I began to learn things. The technique is to listen to your voice while speaking, in case something of value might be said.
21.19 The press conference at Pony Canyon's office was very enjoyable. Firstly, an overall presentation by myself and then questions from the tables. Next, exactly eight minutes at each table answering specific personal questions.
An important arising decision today: I am going to return to outside record production. Clearly, a considerable amount of my time at World Central is involved with David Singleton in our production & production-mastering work. But to date all of this has been in-house. It's time for me to move outwards into the world. Our re-mastering of Daryl Hall's "Sacred Songs" brought back good (musical) memories. When I return to England we'll begin to address this.
What happens, professionally, is you get offered the work you are perceived as doing. Obviously. So, if you play burning guitar on other people's records, get `phone calls to play burning guitar on other people's records. If you produce records for other artists, your calls are all enquiries to produce records for other artists. If you are the Venal Leader & CEO of a small, independent record company, you get an endless stream of demos & unsolicited tapes from small & independent (i.e. struggling) artists.
So, what I'm about to do is make myself publicly available, once again, as a record producer.
