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Morsels of Forthcoming Elegance
🕑 Added 2023-11-12 23:51:59 +0000 UTCGood morning, My Primest of Ovulates. Or indeed a good whatever segment of the day it might be in your geolocation. I was thinking of you all this morning. I'm feeling an extra special burst of corpusculent gratitude on a fine, sunny autumnal Miami day, that this is what I'm able to do with my life. So, you were on my mind, and I felt compelled to write to you with a delicate update, plus some amuse bouches of sorts.
Admittedly things have been a little quiet on the Emu online-publishing front recently. To be honest I'm a little tired of churning out vertical videos. I started to feel like I was becoming a bit paint-by-numbers with how I was doing them - a bit cynical - and that's the anathema True Art! That may change in the future but for now it feels correct to pause on them briefly. Luckily, some exciting other creative potentials and cosmic energies have slid my way over the last few months. The real reason for my quietude is that I have been squirrelling away at some absolutely new and exquisitely fresh new high quality content.
Namely,
1. A piping hot new album of twelve songs, which I am on track to release by the close of the year (I keep my word). This will include three singles I've put out this year, plus nine unreleased new tracks. A couple of these are in a pretty radically different vibe to what I've put out before. As with all these albums I just follow my gut creatively, with whatever I'm feeling pushed towards in the moment. It's going to be a veritable generic smorgasbord, in a way that is completely unmarketable via mainstream music promotion pathways! Excellent news. But is it not the blessed gift, nay prerogative, of this creative route I have chosen, that I am able to do that? To put out stream of consciousness songs via streaming services and bandcamp, and sustain myself through your generosity. I'm a lucky flightless bird.
2. Musical collaborations with two different international artists. One of these coming out in time for the Yuletide festivities. One of these in particular is a collaboration that many people have been requesting for some time and I think it's going to go, as they say, off.
3. A 4x15 minutes narrative show for BBC Radio 4, co-written with Adrian Gray. In it I'll be expanding upon my life, my loves, my family history, my relationship with Bonson, my psychologically healthy relationship with my father. And I shall probably propagate some of my infamous musings on technology and religion etc. We've submitted the script drafts, and the good news is they've gone down well with the honchos, so our release date has been moved forwards! Recording next week, so watch this space for release in early 2024...
4. Filming a new music video with Hunter. It's for one of the lead songs off the new album. I won't give away the song yet, because I always enjoy you all trying to decipher what the story of the song is from a handful of odd stills I'm attaching to this. This was our most ambitious shoot yet in terms of time spent, locations and budget. We have also learnt a lot about our process, particularly where to spend budget to level up production values, and where you can't beat the plain, good old-fashioned Emu Video model of me running around and posing in various public locations, to the dismay of commuting professionals.
As is my wont, I've extended a couple of my better songs that I've released across the year into fuller songs to slot neatly in the album. My personal favourite is the one that appeared in the narrative video Dads Be Like. I wrote it as a little jingle for the beginning of that video, originally, as a way of easing into the scene. But I thought it had legs, so I extended it. What became the chorus was written in the vocal booth at the very end of a long day of recording all the album vocals. I ended up having to stay another two hours to get these harmonies down, and record an aggressive tenor sax solo. You never know when inspiration can strike and you must be primed to pounce on it like a coiled viper!
Hope you're all healthy and fresh. I've taken a few days off this week in preparation to dive into our biggest Pleasure Garden ever this week. Hunter will be filming some beautiful clips, and we actually have the capacity to record decent sound in this venue for once, so look out for some clips from it over the next couple of months.
Never forget,
JE loves U xxx
Comments
Local Fruit
Most excellent work on the latest TWRP Album, Mr. Emu! International Business Systems is truly one of the businesses of all time.
SpagzFunny
Now that the album is out, I must say it's incredible! Amazing work as always!!
Nyx, the Deity of the Night
No xD anyway, you too<3
anna fleur
Have you ever read Homestuck? Either way lol, hope you're having a good day
Nyx, the Deity of the Night
I don't remember, but that's quite a while ago and my memory is historically dreadful so it's very possible haha
anna fleur
Nyx did we meet in Chiswick march 2022?? Lovely to see you here
Queen Of Darkness
So excited for the new album 😁 eeeeeeee. And my apologies Papa Emu, I won't be able to attend your show at the Pleasure Garden but will do my best to attend the next one 😊 🖤🤘🏼
Katy
This message was a nice little surprise...a happy little pick-me-up as I wait for my connecting flight to London. 💚❤️💛🩷💛💚❤️🩵💚💛 Full of fun and amazing news. Your Eggies love you!!
Lorien D
Splendid news nibblies as always! I'm extremely delighted to hear about the extension of legs from a kickin' song!!!! Teaser images are very teasing, I can't wait to see what its all about!! 😳👀👽👾🤖💫🦶🎉💖
Jenny Bulmer
Exciting stuff, I am very much looking forward to hearing the sax solo on the new album! I love that more opportunities are winging your way, things seem to be pointing in the right direction for Emu success! I’m so looking forward to Wednesday, it’s going to be so much fun 🤩
Sam Henderson
Most glorious news indeed, my fellow Henderson family compatriot. We musical Hendersons must support each other in these times of musical crisis. Your exuberantly scintillating Synthfunk for the emotionally impaired is a much welcome balm in a world of drabbery. Go forth and conquer, our flightless bird emperor!
Nyx, the Deity of the Night
I can't wait for the new album! I'm sure whatever new tonal directions you've headed in will again completely dictate my tastes, as it did before. From the stills it seems you've finally dabbled in the discussion around AI ethics and how it concerns the music industry. Either that or it's MSN Messenger 2: Electric Boogaloo ;) I'm very excited for the collaborative projects! I know there are one or two creators that I would love for you to work with, so here's to hoping it's one of them, or it's not and I get my expectations subverted🫶 Keep up the good stuff, I'm incredibly happy I get to financially support these projects!
