The Album Makes You
Keith Handy just wrote what may be the final installment in his “So You Want To Make An Album” series. I think it’s my favorite, though it’s difficult to choose.
Have a quote or two:
“A lot of insight can come from simple reversals of perspective. We do it with our pets all the time. We say our cats own us. This isn’t a lie, it’s just a different way of seeing something. In a similar way, as recording artists, or as artists of any kind, it’s good once in a while to remember that our music and art is creating us. (And when we release an album, it’s really releasing us.)”
“You don’t designate a blank space, and then suddenly create stuff out of thin air to fill that space — you create raw material just by being yourself, and then one day you decide to actually make a point of collecting, preserving, beautifying, and assigning track numbers to whatever is coming out of you, so that someone else in the world might benefit from it.”
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This is the best advice I have ever heard on this subject. I have to read the book you are suggesting here! I am really impressed by this guy. Perhaps this is the best information I have found to inspire my creativity in a long, long time…
Awesome! Keith does have that effect on people. You should check out his website/blog. There’s plenty more where this came from. Comments also tend to get responses over there. ; )