And in the End....A Return to the Old Favorties

Well, as it turns out, the lack of electricity and reliable internet service finally took thier toll on my ability/desire to blog while still on the Subcontinent, and as such I haven't posted anything in just short of a month now. So, now I'm back sitting here in air-conditioned comfort in Austin, 28 hours, 3 flights, 2 lay-overs, and 1 taxi-ride away from Delhi. I could offer some final reflections on the trip, some parting words if you will, but I've decided to let it be as it may and just wrap it up already. After my first protracted stay in India, I felt much more compelled to try and dissect and capture a lot of the feelings and experiences I had upon coming back home, but this time around I know that my stay here is just more of a work obligation or a type of furlough between future trips. I'll be back to South Asia soon enough, and after that I'll be there again, and again. So, as of now, I'm officially signing off the travel portion of this blog. Thanks for reading!


That being written, I plan to keep up with other aspects of my creative pulse here, and as of right now this blog is reverting back to primarily a forum on music and ideas thereof by yours truly. Any of you who have been reading this over the summer may have noticed and/or wondered about the heading on this blog, "Pigeoncore", and that's exactly what it's reverting back to (see above banner). Some of you may know, I have been a musician for nearly 20 years now, and write/record/produce all my own stuff out of my home in Austin, Texas, as I have done for nearly a decade now. Since I've started grad school at the University of Texas, my output, both band and personal, has decreased significantly, and with good reason: I ain't got much free time. So what I plan to do in the coming weeks is try and compile and organize the often cluttered, unfinished, and loose ends that I've left behind over the years, and this blog will be an outlet to that process. I want to keep moving on, writing and recording when there is time to do so, but back projects and ideas from a while ago have begun to pile up in spectacular fashion, and if I don't put it all together soon, I run the risk of sitting on a closetful of unfinished ideas in the very near future and not as much that can be said to be "finished". Much like thoroughly cleaning the kitchen begets a better cooking experience the next time around, I don't really want to write anything new until I've cleaned out the corners. Which at this point includes 4 unfinished albums worth of material plus quite a few things that never got properly mastered/mixed, etc, etc. My back-catalogue is still intact, of course, and I plan to post about that stuff too.


So what I think I'll do here is lay out what I have and what stands as it is. I will post about the finished projects that I have, as well as the unfinished ideas (with apt commentary). For the completed ideas, I want to record what went into the process; notes about production, the period involved, time it took, what I used for recording and what programs, soundbytes, etc. For the unfinished albums, I'll use this space to flesh out where I would like them to go, who I would like to play on them, etc. So if that's interesting to you, come on along, but if not, that's cool too.

Finally, in order that I keep this post-feed as predominantly a travel narrative, I'm going to be posting for the near future on my other blog, http://www.mulattopigeon.blogspot.com/

It's essentially the same thing, but it will be 100% music oriented, whereas I'll come back to this one the next time I travel or just feel like waxing about whatever. See you all soon!