For a review I can start with the stages of the "band." We have members, but we are spread thin like a pad of butter on sixty miles of dry toast. We have a new drummer though in the works. I think you will like him/her. They have been on the team for near the beginning but we never thought to use them in a live setting.
Our search for a completion to the band has been hard and the distance for the creeping along of the band has left me sort of ragged. I spend a lot of time creating and encouraging (in the way I encourage (belligerent nagging and living what I expect from others to do to me)) and hoping that we make is something about which we can be proud instead of music for the sake of money.
I am not alone in my desires, but the actual purpose is starting to escape me and I am not able to handle the demand for basic music. I want incredible and earth shattering and I have only been producing puzzles of music and complex designs unfinished and unposted. The very basics of music we have started to polish up and I am finding that I am struggling to make myself power through older stuff that isn't down right perfect. So I need to change a few things to make them more exciting; To the chagrin of the Badman. I think he will be fine with it in the long run, but the growing pains are becoming very real and some what painful... as it were.
As a month in review I have been slowing down because I am losing my roots, straying too far from my muse and wellsprings. So, I am going to go back to them and work on only music that Badman sends down to me for our project and leave the rest of the creation to my side projects. Places where I don't expect constant toiling and constant creativity from anyone but myself and I am free to be as daring as I want with music that might fail or be odd, but I will be fulfilled by it.
I am not the lead singer for Following Satellites and I need to remember that and leave the lyrics up to the Badman for the FS projects. So expect from us a lot more hip hop if Badman is up to it.
From now on I think this blog will be used for my experiments and like noted above my scratch pad for musics which are not Following Satellites productions. This will be again: The Ehk'olite (featuring BadmanJ)
As far as Followings Satellites is concerned visit: http://FollowingSatellites.com That should give you the best impression of work we are doing as a team. The production will be a lot nicer than this stuff, and the songs should be coming much more slowly there, but they might end up being of a higher quality. (Your preferences may vary)
For the BadmanJ in all his glory, check out http://badmanj.blogspot.com If that is not up yet, I will beg from the BadmanJ to get it working.
Peace,
The Ehk'olte
(it all ends in circles)
