This new release, The Inevitable Obscenity of Autonomous Weaponry<\/a>, includes a few tracks from that same period. I\u2019ve perhaps taken more liberties with them this time, relying on my own vision.<\/p>\n The other tracks are all \u201cnew\u201d in the sense that they are based on material I wrote since Walter and I stopped collaborating on music, from 2003 to 2019. <\/p>\n You can find out more at the album-specific pages I created (see the The Inevitable Obscenity<\/a> link in the blog top menu above).<\/p>\n I used CD Baby as my manufacturer\/distributer and due to COVID-19 related circumstances, I\u2019m not sure exactly when and how this will be made available to purchase. It *should* appear on Amazon at some point, and although CD Baby has closed their online store, they do have copies in their warehouse for distribution.<\/p>\n The physical package is nice: an eco-sensitive cardboard wallet:<\/p>\n The artwork came out nicely but I acknowledge I used a sub-optimal font point size on the smallest text. It seemed ok in the PDF but I should have realized that white-on-black in print would be harder to read. Oh well, no big deal. The information (and more!) is all available online (see link above).<\/p>\n Digitally, the album is now up on Spotify and probably other streaming services as well. Yay!<\/p>\n Okay, so the timing for this release isn\u2019t great: as I write this, we are still under a County Public Health \u201cStay At Home Order\u201d due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the economy is taking a nose-dive. Folks just aren\u2019t going to have the disposable income (or the will to spend it) that they did a couple months ago.<\/p>\n Originally I\u2019d planned for this to be out in 2019 which would have been nice, but it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n Since the last blog post, \u201cFinal polishing\u201d of the tracks took longer than expected because I kept finding little things I wasn\u2019t totally happy with. This is actually an infinite process because there will *always* be things that I think I could improve, and my tastes change over time so it\u2019s a moving target. The trick is to apply the law of diminishing returns and identify when it is time to Let It Go. <\/p>\n At this point, I think I chose appropriately. It\u2019s out there now, anyway.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve uploaded two videos on YouTube to accompany the release: A studio \u201cplay-through\u201d for Paradigm Shift<\/a> and a second one for Cathedral<\/a> with \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d text captions.<\/p>\n![\"image\"](\"http:\/\/www.prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_49.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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