Envinity: Now With 20% More Cabbage!

Greetings light acquaintances,

I'm going to wager that some time has passed between my last update about the little premier party, and this. Do I win the wager? Damn right I do. Penny up!

I'm sure there are at least two to three of you out there that are still interested in what is going on with Envinity, yes? (Maybe that estimate was too high).

For those of you who are staying, first take off your shoes, and second, give me a back rub. Mmmmm.

There was a tear in the fabric of space time a few weeks back as Bryan, John, Eric and myself all managed to convene at the same time and place for a fairly involved photo shoot. I'm going to be purposely vague about the details of the shoot as they coincide strongly with the story and overall theme of the new album (and I still have to save something for later, or maybe all of it. Suckas.) Point is, things were surprisingly efficient and the graphics I've been concocting with the photos look absolutely bad ass (that is a hip slang term for 'neato').

I may or may not post some of the graphics sometime. Depends on my mood (which is pretty shitty these days).

Music wise, I'm being super anal with everything, and as a result, have started my millionth pass of mixing, since each time I do a new full mix (which takes a long time by the way, and is really exhausting work), I hear something else that I want to change or fix. I promise that this will be the last major pass, and, assuming I ever get time anymore, I'll move to getting the master all set up. I've already tested some recent mixes out with my mastering software configuration, and it sounds really amazing.

What then you ask? Well, I still need to get the new website up and running, since you may have noticed that I took the old one down about. . . . oh . . . two years ago? I've been really apathetic and did not want to update anything. So I guess I accomplished my goal in that respect eh?

The new site will be very involved and different from anything I've done so far, as it will tie in heavily to the story and environment of the album. Details once I actually get working on that.

Everyone has been really busy lately, including myself, making working on the things I do for myself out of love quite difficult. I have very little time, energy or even money at the moment, but I've been slowly progressing on this record and everything that it encompasses because I truly do believe in it. I know that's a biased statement coming from me, but who cares.

This year, sometime. Promise. Perhaps, if I'm not wallowing in cottage cheese, we may even get out there again and perform some of this ridiculously crazy new stuff.

Perhaps.

I hope you guys are doing better then I am, and I'm sorry to have kept you waiting five years for new music. I can only trust that what I will give you will be completely worth the wait.

Toodles,

NIKO