Amazingly I have sent the guide track out to to 30 sl musicians now and with Toby and Me thats a pretty healthy number. Of course it is inevitable that some folks despite the best of intentions will not be able to provide a contribution by the deadline of 5th December but even so I think we are so far looking OK for getting enough material to work with. It is a strange time in the project for me and Toby much as it was last time. We just have to wait for the contributions to arrive so it is very much the calm before the storm. I am busying myself with distributing information about the project although the brunt of this is being taken up by the very able Cher Harrington who has been a godsend. With Sally Silvera helping too and other candidates waiting in the wings the imparting of information is under control in their hands.

Once the press release is distributed then I will do a little planning on how the track itself will be distributed when it is complete. With the premier on the 21st only 4 days before Xmas it is going to need an army of willing helpers to send it to every resident on their friends list and group they are a member of. I think I am going to need a methof for tracking which groups we have already sent it to so that we do not spam groups more than once. Cher also mentioned that it would be cool if we can get a download count. I have just had a look at the file host I use and this looks possible

So the new collaborative recording project is under way and it will be a christmas track entitled "Christmas All Year Through". I wrote the song in the run up to last christmas after setting myself the task of trying to write a christmas song that isn't cheesy. We will see if worked or not as I am pleased to say there are already 27 potential contributors who have so far requested the information card. Needless to say some may not be able to give something by the deadline of 5th December for all manner of reasons but it still looks as if we are going to have a healthy collection of talent on the track.

To follow what happens during the making of the track please keep an eye on my blog and this thread at the SLMC Forum

http://slmc.myfastforum.org/about2137.html

 

I completed recording the skeleton piano and vocal tracks for the new sl collaboration I am planning and sent them off to Toby today. Once I have had a chat to him then I will announce the detail of the project to try and get some participants. There are enough folks already interested on the SLMC Forum to be hopeful that we will be ok. It was nice to see some of the original GIT collaborators wanting to give it another crack.