Jeremy, now in his mid-20s, has been writing music since elementary school. It started out as the undisciplined doodling instead of practicing for piano lessons. In his early teens this proceeded to writing electronic music ranging from techno to electronica to industrial to rock (and even some cheesy video game music). Then in 9th grade he picked up guitar which became his favorite musical device. Since then he has performed in a broad range of musical settings including: alternative 90s rock bands, as a solo acoustic artist, various college worship teams, and an energetic indie rock band. Lately he's taken his focus to the acoustic realm as a singer-songwriting, still providing quality songs, unconventional lyrics, and melodies that his friends want to sing along with. He brings an accessible set of tunes to the table. You can relax and enjoy, but also take something home to think about.
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November 2009 News -- Second Installment!
Monday, 23 November 2009
just a quick update: i'll be featured on this year's Pouch Records christmas compilation! more to come on that.
November 2009 News
Saturday, 14 November 2009
greets to all you creatures!
it's november...more like the middle of it. and honestly, i'm not going to capitalization today. i prefer having a high resolution set for emphasis levels. ;)
so's what's been going on lately? lots of painting and studio rennovating and studio work. those are good things.
along with that, i've been plodding through potential candidates for the new album. i made a list and got a little exlcusive, telling all the new undeveloped ideas that keep happening that there's a huge list of other songs that never got their turn to be recorded. i guess, really, anna and i both have just been working on my focus. new ideas keep coming, which i'm thankful for, but there's a set of songs that are done and need to see the light of day. right? it's true, you know it.
there's been some restructuring. there have been some relatively older songs pulled out and revisited...no shame in that. there's been a list that's been getting stars, slashes and notes scribbed all over it. there's been a lot of plinking and choosing different keys for things. oh and somehow i started becoming too much of a perfectionist again, so there's been a lot of fighting the "thinking and planning too hard" which avails zero happening of anything. i really admire the people i know that just set out and do something. and heck, if it didn't come out well, they try again. the fact is, i'm slowly training and discliplining myself to give something a shot, even if the day's work will be 0% keeper stuff, because it'll get me further along in a few days than how i've been almost doing things this whole past year.
well, i've been working hard in my studio
getting some projects done for various bands.
otherwise,
i started pre-production on my next album. it's going to be very
different from 'progress '. most likely there will be multiple drummers
and heck, i'm gonna try to borrow a few different guitars from friends.
:) it's been fun trolling through idea recordings and well picking
from the stack of finished songs... we shall see eh? :)
the hope
is to get it done this fall. potentially there is a enough time, but
i'm not going to push for a hard deadline like we did on
'progress '....there's so much i wouldn't done differently. i would've
made time to get anna's singing in, probably allowed another song or
two to make it on, been far more thoughtful and patient with the art...something more 'win-some' to the eye...
but hey, we learn right? :) i think that's one lesson i've learned
over and over with this stuff and even from when i worked in the
corporate world: there's hard deadlines and there's quality. if
there's not enough quality, you blew it. of course, there is a balance. but it's a fact too much quality is sacrificed far too often. oh yes, and we're all crazy. it's true.
oh yes, also, andy and i are working on our born of tides
project as well. it's more andy's project than mine really. ;) i have a lot of singing to do though! the last week of october we have some days blocked off to get the drums down. we're slowly putting it all together in-between times he's not on tour doing sound and lights for the innerpartysystem .
alright. hoped you liked reading. and i hope i didn't mal-form any phrases again!
jeremy
i just want to say, if you missed this past friday's concert (sept 25th), you missed out. it was a great night. satisfying. all the artists were great. i was especially excited to hear my friend Dan Harney's new music project, The ShalloWell . there's a lot of promise there. :) we also met some neat guys in The No Longer . they were a delightful surprise as well. geoff is a ridiculously good singer.
in other news, i've started preparations for recording a new album this fall. one of the main reasons i'm not doing any more concerts in 2009 is to make sure i can dedicate some quality time, thought, and energy to personal recording projects. the main one being the next Jeremy Simon album. it's gonna be diverse for sure. there's a lot of new material from the past year that i am so excited to get in permanent form. some of you have heard some of the new stuff. it's my favorite stuff too...the most happy i've been with my songwriting in a long time! :-D i'm hoping to honestly do a bunch of styles i love and tie it all together...somehow! ;)
so yeah, my friend andy nissley and are going to do some pre-production starting this week. heh, i'm gonna show him what i want. we're gonna jam. he's gonna deconstruct all my stuff like a good friend and then we're gonna bicker for a little bit. eventually we'll set up mics and start recording stuff. hehe. honestly, it's gonna be great fun.
in tandem with that, we'll be working on Born of Tides , which is a project andy initiated and i started to sing on. it's a different project for me. i'm so used to writing most everything and then bringing it others to help me flesh out. this time, it's not my ideas initially, but i'm free to come up with lyrics and melodies. it's fun and freeing. we have one song posted for free download from the spring.
uhm, that's all for now. talk to you on the later side.
jeremy
Jeremy, now in his mid-20s, has been writing music since elementary school. It started out as the undisciplined doodling instead of practicing for piano lessons. In his early teens this proceeded to writing electronic music ranging from techno to electronica to industrial to rock (and even some cheesy video game music). Then in 9th grade he picked up guitar which became his favorite musical device. Since then he has performed in a broad range of musical settings including: alternative 90s rock bands, as a solo acoustic artist, various college worship teams, and an energetic indie rock band. Lately he's taken his focus to the acoustic realm as a singer-songwriting, still providing quality songs, unconventional lyrics, and melodies that his friends want to sing along with. He brings an accessible set of tunes to the table. You can relax and enjoy, but also take something home to think about.
