The Sala-Blog

And it got a bunch of Favorites, and a few re-tweets.  Which ain't bad for a nobody like me.

Thanks, internet. I like you, too.

I've decided that since I post the music on my FAWM.org site once it's recorded, that any more blog posts here about my 2012 FAWM experience will just be about the experience itself.  If you're really interested, not that you should be, you can hear the songs, and read notes about and lyrics from each one at

http://fawm.org/fawmers/michaelsalamone/

My system this year means that I'll likely be recording in bulk, and uploading in bulk. So if you are for some reason interested, I'd say it's safe to assume checking back weekly will be suffice.

OK. Time to put the headphones back on and play with digital guitar effect simulators and try to make myself sound much more rock and roll than I actually am.

Big love.

Here's another song I'm working on for FAWM.  It tries to combine some of the big orchestral synth and chimes stuff I've used in electronica, with a sort of indie rock ballad, based around some napkin poetry about a crazy person. 


http://michaelsalamone.com/Clarissa Takes a Fall.mp3

So, I've been doing FAWM again this year, and I've mostly 7 written, and mostly recorded. That means I'm nearly to the half-way point, which is good since it's nearly 2 weeks in already.

I'm doing it a little differently this year, trying to treat it more like a traditional album. Write them, track them, mix them, in handfuls.

I'm ready to start releasing some rough mixes.  Here's one that I asked Facebook friends to submit words or short phrases that would fit with the question, "Are you?"  I thought it would be funny, but most of the suggestions ended up being fairly serious, so it turned into a rock anthem of sorts.


http://michaelsalamone.com/I have a hundred questions about you.mp3

I wasn't going to do February Album Writing Month this year.  I felt like we had a good thing going with the every other year thing.  But, I started tooling around with instruments on the 1st, and have rough sketches of 4, maybe 5 songs.  So.... It looks like I'm in.  I suppose that I haven't polluted the internet with enough crappy songs yet.