Trinity Project gets off the ground at last!!

After a lot of delays caused by outside distractions, Neil and I finally managed to spend a productive evening in the studio and compose 15 minutes of music for the "new age" project we're doing "Music for Angels", and the track, titled "Lazy Heaven" is a great start. Definitely has strong space music overtones with a great feel, so we're very pleased by the start we've made.

There was some gentle ribbing and amusement to begin with, (and several cups of strong coffee!) as I managed to totally mess up my studio midi settings - it's been over seven years since I last set up all the external synths for simultaneous multi-recording. But we were soon up and running and and by midnight we had a pretty nice track.

More news to follow as the album progresses.

Callisto nominated in Schallwelle electronic music awards

Well, here's a pleasant surprise, Callisto have been nominated in the Schallwelle Electronic Music awards, presumably for "Best International electronic music Album" or "Best International Artist". I'm going to be there anyway as one of the three artists performing. But I was also scheduled to be one of the presenter/orators, but obviously can't be now because I've been nominated. Shame, but it does give me more time to work on the space music for the event.

So anyway, well done also Dave Massey and not forgetting Neil (Geigertek) Fellowes because the last two Callisto concerts (and future Callisto concerts if he behaves) include Neil on stage for Dave Massey, who as we all know, "doesn't do live". Both those concerts were well received and I think it likely that the concerts may have featured in some peoples thinking when they voted.

So we'll see how we do, but however it turns out, it's nice to know that we've been nominated and people thought Callisto good enough to vote for.

So "Thanks from Callisto" to all who did vote!

Sci fi soundtrack for Matt Howarth story - update

I received the first draft of Matt Howarth's sci-fi story, and an enjoyable read it is too! Plenty of ideas for music and titles and I will be starting work on that soon. Maybe I will perform some of the ideas at the up and coming Schallwelle Music awards in March, we shall see. I'm not going to give away anything at the moment, aside from saying its about an earth colony on a far off world in the future, mans first colony in fact. That's all I'm gonna say for now and I'm looking forward to putting together an evocative and descriptive space music soundtrack to accompany the book, which will be on the CD as an e-book/pdf. More details to follow................

Steve Barnes - Invisible Landscapes

Spent the afternoon completing the mastering of the forthcoming Divine Matrix  album "Invisible Landscapes". A cool chill out music album from Steve Barnes pseudonym. Should be available in March 2011.

New Code Indigo album?

I keep being asked; "When will the next Code Indigo album be released"?
Truth is, I don't know! But I'm really hoping it'll be end of 2011 early 2012. We're hoping to get together during 2011 to start recording instrumental music for an album that already has at title; "A Different Colour", but as yet has no defined theme or direction, mainly because it is still very much in early development. And all Code Indigo albums have always had a fair amount of discussion on theme and direction before the music really got going. And even then, things tended to change.

Biggest problem is that band members are spread around the UK doing many other space music projects, and while we all really do enjoy working together as Code Indigo, sometime the practicalities of meeting up just get in the way.

So the plan is to get together during the early part of the year, which we've got to do anyway to prepare for the Bungay Bash, and get things moving. Hopefully something will be on the go soon, and we'll have good news for the Code Indigo fans with withdrawal symptoms!

For those who may not have been aware, there is an exclusive Code Indigo track "Gaia" on the 2009 elive sampler, available from Groove, plus an exclusive remix of the awesome "Eden to Chaos" from Timecode.

Bungay Bash

Great to know that the Bungay Bash is going ahead on June 4th 2011 and hopefully we'll put on an event every year at the same sort of time, later spring early Summer. Suffolk and Norfolk are such lovely places that time of year, so hopefully we can attract fans from outside the area as well as within to come to the event.

The event is being held in conjunction with a beer festival, so should be a lot of fun. We're testing the waters with this event, hence it being a mainly AD line up of local instrumental music artists. If things go well then well make it an annual event and widen the net as far as acts are concerned. However, I'm thinking that this should be an annual charity event, simply because with the best will in the world, we can't make enough on the tickets to pay for acts to come unless we make the ticket prices high, which we know from experience keeps people away. So, and I'm thinking out loud here it has to be said, if we make it an "expenses only" event and ensure artists are wined, dined and accommodated and give the profit to a Charity, then it makes it easier for future events. It's only an idea, but one that I'm giving serious thought to!

As to performing, I'm looking forward to sorting out a set of new space music for the event.  I'll be performing solo in the afternoon and with Code Indigo in the evening. Rock on!!

David Wright Performing at Schallwelle Music awards, Germany in 2011

I'm really pleased to have been asked to perform at this years Schallwelle electronic Music awards. It's at Bochum Planetarium so it's great to be revisiting the venue where we recorded the 10th Planet CD in 2007 and where we had such a great time. I really enjoyed performing in a space music set up and I'm looking forward to doing so again. In fact that was my 10th and last Planetarium concert, so probably time I did another. The date is Saturday 12th March 2011 and all details can be found on the Schallwelle Music awards website.