Progress

From an email to a friend on progress with the album

"No tangible progress, lots of intangible stuff going on! I started this with the idea that it would be 'beautiful acoustic guitar'. But there are some things which I need to fix up (microphones etc) before I can start recording it, and I am finding the pause to be quite instructive: my vision for the album is breaking free from my initial constraints. I am now building a drum kit in my cellar (!), and the proposition of whacking the traps again has got my juices flowing a bit. I am coming round to the idea that perhaps I can balance the 'poise' of beautiful flowing guitar patterns with a whole load of other things: soul, funk, afrobeat, krautrock, surreal/classical; I can feel a creative swell of energy, which I intend to channel into something ambitious!"

Only thing to add to that would be that I am going to do all of my arrangements on paper. No clicking!