Right on the heels of Jared’s previous announcement, I’m proud to report that we finished the mastering ahead of schedule, and the production of the album was completed THIS WEEK! Now all that remains is graphic art, new web site, etc., which is Jared’s domain…although I’ll be involved as well. So expect new sound clips, track listing, etc. soon!
Sorry for the the lack of updates. We had a few delays, but we’ve been very busy in the studio this week and I’m incredibly happy to say that by some time next week, we will have a final CD master in our hot little hands. The cover art has seen considerable progress as well, so basically in a very short amount of time we will be officially ready to announce the album (title, cover art, track listing, etc.) and the online download release date. A brand new Web site will be forthcoming as well.
It’s hard to believe that after over a year of hard work, we are nearly at the finish line. Stay tuned!
…nope, not quite ready to reveal the final details, but we are pushing hard to have a semi-final master ready to roll in the next couple of weeks or so. We’ve picked a tentative title and will start working on the artwork very soon, but the idea is to get enough stuff finalized so that we can launch our “countdown to release” phase of the project. And get more sound clips online. 
Thanks for bearing with us. The baby is soon to be birthed!
New milestone: three out of twelve tracks have passed the mixing phase, ready for final mastering at the end of post-production. At least three other of the remaining tracks are short and atmospheric, however, which requires less finessing than the upbeat, complex ones, so we’re well beyond a quarter of the way through mixing. To coin a phrase, the horses smell the barn!
Much has happened since our last blog post. We indeed have an entire album of music in the works — in fact, the composition phase is nearly complete and post-production has already begun on a few tracks. We don’t know exactly when we’ll be able to put our official stamp of approval on a finished product, but it’s definitely sooner rather than later.
Just so you know that what we’re doing is more than vaporware, here are a few excerpts from the album. These aren’t final mixes, but they’re pretty darn close. We hope you enjoy them, and come back soon for much, much more news on our upcoming release!
OK, it’s been a while (i.e., several months) since we’ve posted anything…but we haven’t dried up! We’re still busy working on new music. We thought we were going to do an EP, but we’ve started to have enough material for a real album—who knows! Anyway, it’s a bit different from what we’ve done before, but I love it, and Jared loves it, and I’m sure you’ll love it all as well. I wish I could post some clips of what we’ve been working, but we’re keeping it under lock and key at the moment. At some point, probably next year, we might have something to show. We’re going to put together a demo CD to send to labels as well, and I hope we can get on a good one (probably not a big, mainstream label though — blech!).
Anyway, in the meantime please enjoy the same old pieces we’ve had on this site for a year…it’s still good music!
At long last, I’ve uploaded some new tracks to our Download Music page: Bayou Before Daybreak, Crimson Heart, Twin Roads, and Main Theme. Upbeat, thematic, exciting, and edgy, these tracks are some of my best work to date, so I’m very excited to be publicly releasing them for the first time (although Crimson Heart’s been playing on our jukebox for a while). Enjoy!
We’ve been spending some time thinking about our upcoming plans, and we’ve decided on a couple of things:
(a) I (Jared) am going to do some final tweaks on my solo album tracks that are almost ready, and then I’m going to release all the tracks as free MP3 downloads. Why? Do I not think they’re good enough quality for a major CD release? No, it’s not that, but I started work on the album in 2004, well before Shayne and I had decided to form Binary Sea, and I feel that I want to put my focus on the future of the band and start working together on a joint project.
(b) To that end, we are not releasing a compilation CD-R of tracks. As mentioned above, we plan on putting up a lot of new stuff as free downloads and then launching into a proper Binary Sea album project.
Thanks for your patience folks as we get our bearings with where the band is going. Many exciting things are ahead!
If you’ve been wondering why our store information about upcoming album releases was out of date, here’s the scoop. We do indeed have a compilation album of some of our tracks ready, but we’re waiting to iron out some PayPal issues with our label (should be resolved shortly). Check back soon for more news.
In the meantime, my solo album project has been on hold for the past couple of months, but I’ll be starting work on it soon. All but one track is finished in terms of composition, and much of the mixing and performance end of things is just about done, so we’re heading towards the home stretch. I’ll try to get an additional track or two up on our Download/SoundClick page so you can hear what I’ve been working on.
Thanks folks! ‘Till next time, Jared
Well, Binary Sea’s FIRST LIVE GIGS are over, and we have juicy pictures ready for you! The two performances both went really well—we received a lot of positive feedback and we sold CDs. If you haven’t read the previous posts here in the lead-up to the gigs, they took place at the Windsor Farmers Market on the Town Green in Windsor, CA. We were a hit with the vendors and the ladies who run the fair. I’m sure we’re going to be invited back next year, as both we and they had a great time. We had to use our bulky studio equipment like our big desktop computers, but hopefully by next spring, which is when performance season starts up again, we’ll have some more live-friendly gear. In the meantime, what we used worked excellently. Enjoy the pictures!
The following photos, except for the first and last, were taken by Rick Tang.
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