Hey folks, Devin here. How's tricks?
So here's the deal: I'm in the middle of an absolute monstrous amount of work,
Ghost, Deconstruction, Ziltoid Rockband, Live videos, Guitar prototypes, Namm, and
getting ready for tour. In a nutshell: Things are great! I'm happy to be working so
much and thrilled that I don't have to write music that sounds like every other shit ass
commercial rock band I hear on the radio.
My friend Brett Caldas-Lima, who did sound for us on our first tour ever as the Devin
Townsend Project (Last January with BTBAM, Cynic and Scale The Summit)
contacted me a while ago saying he had gone ahead and mixed one of the shows
from that first tour. In listening to it, I kind of thought we sounded pretty good!
Granted, it was the first tour and we were playing to a crowd that couldn't have cared
less, (hence the proliferation of tasteless ad-libs on my part...apologies) but really, all
things considered, it's not a bad recording and when it surfaced online, people were
asking how to get a hold of it. So um... here it is!
InsideOut Music and Century Media (two truly progressive labels) are full of music
lovers and good people. A great team to be on, and they offered to post this on their
site. Awesome IOM/CM! Thanks for years of support! Of course, on the net you can
download anything I've ever done as it is, so in a lot of ways I consider the fact that
some of you spend actual money on my stuff a really nice gesture. I was going to
release this on Soundcloud, but when the label asked to be involved, we decided the
best idea was to put it up on their site. There's so much stuff coming out this year that
costs actual money to produce that the least we can do to thank you for your support
is throw you a bone every now and then.
There's 5 songs performed by my live project 'dtp' straight out of the board and then
mixed by Brett:
Supercrush!
Kingdom
Truth
Om
By Your Command
The goal this year is to accumulate enough interest in what I do to work with
symphonies in a live context. As the second of 4 bands on our first tour though, it's
not really an option yet
Ok, gotta get back to work...cheers! Come see us on tour if
you get a chance !
Dev
PS: Please visit Brett's website Towerstudio.net, he does a great job at the
production thing, and he is also the mastermind behind the band Kalisia, so yay
Brett!
