Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The album is almost done!


The album is almost done. After almost 2 years of writing and creating what would be our follow up album, we are finally close to approaching the finishing line. At this point, we are all excited to release this album. We feel that after four years of gigging and struggling to make our songs be heard, these experiences have somehow helped us grow. The first album showed us the potential of what we could reach, of the opportunity to share God’s love and our experiences in our Christian faith through music. The content of this follow up album would showcase our strengthened faith to survive the challenges of life. How we used the learning that we got from the first album and implementing it in our daily lives. We are also taking our Christian Contemporary Power Pop music, to a more diverse Inspirational Rock tag. This new album would also be our debut of some sorts as a band. We recorded the first album with only the three of us, namely Thrina, Wilbert, and me, with the bulk of the songwriting coming from Wilbert and me. This one will involve the band members that have been playing with us in our live gigs since the release of our first album. It has been a learning process. While Thoughts And Notions takes pride in writing songs that aims to uplift wounded souls, the influx of newer and much younger songwriters has given us a new flexibility without necessary sacrificing the quality of our songs. I personally take pride in what Adonis Berongoy, Erikson Gloria, and the recently recruited bassist Doris Bangot was able to write. This brought diversity to our songwriting process (and naturally, relieving me the pressure to write songs after songs hehe). We are hoping to be able to release this one within the year. But I guess we wouldn’t be able to accomplish that. A safe guess would be first quarter next year. We are also doing the indie route (since our previous album was a one shot deal), until such time we could find a record label that would be willing to help us get our music across the archipelago. This is what we initially did in our debut album. Since then, Praise Music picked up the option to distribute that particular album nationwide. We are forever grateful to Praise Music for opening the doors for us. And since the door has finally been opened, we hope that we could step outside and proudly share this new creation. 4 years separated since the debut album, we hope that we can make those who believed in us proud. Thank you for all those who have supported us through all these years. God Bless!      

3 comments:

  1. Great! There is virtue in waiting. "Waiting is one of God's preferred methods of preparing special people for significant projects." - Chuck Swindoll; "Waiting is a common instrument of providential discipline for those to whom exceptional work has been appointed." - James Stalker "Wait for the Lord; be strong " and let your heart take courage." - Psalm 27:14

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  2. unfairc thrina ra nga pic ang naa.... ahehehe joke hia... hia e update bya ko huh?

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