Projects Letter

16/11/05

Dear all;

Another little letter while having another late night writing in Cyprus (Evi has suggested I have started doing this more often almost like a diary) so I thought to myself I had better write next about what I have been up to music / creative projects etc.

First of all, I have been writing a few poems over the past few months, but not lots – perhaps one a month that I am really happy with, but they are coming slowly but surely including one particularly excellent Christmas Poem for this year’s Christmas Cards to friends.

Otherwise, I am still working slowly on the next DIH album “Suicide”. I think currently I have 10 songs / tracks completed – Keith Hicc has wrote and recorded 4 tracks this year which will be appearing on the CD and he and UK Dragon have recorded vocals for a track for myself also, with vocals from Lil Andy from M.A.N will also prove a interesting track if I can get it finished in time.

As thinking about Lil Andy, As I think I mentioned previously I went over to visit Lil Andy at the beginning of September in Brighton and conned him into doing a number of vocals for me – four of which will end up as tracks on my Christmas album for this year ( more on this later), most of the rest will end up as M.A.N. tracks on our long over-due second and probably final CD which I am aiming to start work on later on this year and maybe finish off later in 2006.

For those who may be interested in the shop section of Setting Sun, I have no more news about the forthcoming vocals only CD by Andy M, my vocalist in M.A.N.

The unmastered CD went over to him a few weeks back from him. When I get chance, I’ll follow him up over this – but I don’t expect it to be soon.

One other bit of news while writing this, that I forgot to mention previously about DIH is the fact that I believe we have three or four tracks coming out on some American compliation for some label (I have forgotten which) either later this year or maybe at the start of next year.

The sessions for these tracks came together incredibly quickly, almost proving that the next DIH album is not being wrote slowly because of writer’s block.

The sessions for these tracks resulted in five tracks simply called Hate 1, Hate 2, Hate 3, Hate 4 and Hate 5. Each track harking back to very early DIH circa. “Further” and “Forever” expect with more focused vocals and noise / beats seemingly more frightening.

Once I have an idea, which tracks will be released (which at the moment I think are 1, 3 and 5) I will release the reminder of the material as free downloads on Setting Sun itself, as I am really pleased with this session and feel that all of the tracks should be available.

The new DIH album however will be completely different as I want to expand on 2004’s “Internal Conflict” rather than these “Hate” tracks (though they were fun to do)

Otherwise, I have completed and posted my Same Actor / Hot Roddy remixes off to Chris Cook (who is them) the week before last and although I think he is somewhat confused by it, he has passed them onto my HMBC records, so who knows what will happen next there.

At the writing stage although coming along very slowly “Intermission” is still developing. I am writing this entry in Cyprus, and as I have forgot to bring it along with me – I haven’t touched it for a good week or two now, but at the moment I THINK it is about 68 pages long (16,500 words) or maybe 16 or so chapters.

It is looking good thou.

Perhaps over Christmas, I may start getting it ready to send to Agencies and Publishers.