Longing for the day ...

Think I need one more stage ...

Been thinking about the three stages of album development in the multi-album project. Three is good, but I think it sells the process short. Now that I have all the guitars down and most of the vocals down, I've been thinking about where these songs could go and there's another spot beyond a band: a full studio production with session players and strings, horns, choirs ... the full McCoy for each song - exactly as it's needed to bring the songs to its full glory.

See, a band is limited by its moving parts, but this arrangement can be tailored to each song, and truly add things that even a full band can't do. I don't want to create a "brand", I want to bring the very best out of each song ... and that means treat each one on its own merits. Some might be very simple anyways, but I want the flexibility to make them all very different if that's what's best for the songs.

This, of course, would be the far extreme of collaboration - letting someone else with excellent arrangement skills and serious performance chops have a crack at the songs. See what they can get out of them. THAT will take trust and clear communication ... not sure how I'll handle that, but keen to find out.

No idea how I will afford that or who to turn to for the musos I'd need, but this idea is all up in the air, anyways. I guess I'll have to find a super producer first ... but atm it's all about me making this on my own ... let's see who shows up down the track ...