Right now, it is pretty obvious that the BIG thing in Mirrour Land is (2026) 'Rear-View-Mirrour' and (2025) 'The Opus' (Opus in C major) our current new/latest albums ... which are both getting ALL of the attention—and—well, as these things go and as time marches on, both will also be getting older every minute! And because new albums don't stay that way (NEW, that is) forever, it becomes the weighty responsibility of The Artist to carry on and create more new albums ... what's the term? "Gotta feed the monkey ..." Right? Well, since we have recorded so many songs through the years, we have amassed mountains of music ... and, as such ... SOMETIMES we actually go back in time and dust off an old container of nearly-finished work ... and, you know ... finish it ... making it possible to release NEW [OLD] albums that will always sound NEW to YOU since you weren't around years ago when we were making them.
Make sense?
That said, we have a real doozy waiting in the wings for you ... it was our BIG PRODUCTION album of yesteryear: We called it (and still do) "The JOURNEY" ... and please don't ask where it takes you because we've never figured that part out ourselves! Conceived in 1975 (in a wild and colorful fashion); Written in 1976 (at least a dozen wild and colorful songs); Roland and Sal vocals recorded in New York in 1982 (at least a half-dozen wild and colorful takes—mostly all in tune; Complex multi-tracked analogue instrumentation added in 1983 (in an experimental, wild and colorful way) and even some new tracks written and recorded in the wee hours of early 1984 ... yeah, we all became obsessed with this Journey that was taking us nowhere ... we started wearing wild, colorful clothing, sunglasses indoors, grew mustaches and long sideburns and began to communicate in Klingon ("It was a Magical Time") ... and then, it all hit the can ... or was it the fan? The JOURNEY was shelved, never again to see the light of day ... even with sunglasses on.
Well, anyway, to make a long story even longer, early in 2025, whilst Jan Boogaloo was spinning The Opus over at UKNR, we, for reasons unknown, pulled The JOURNEY down off the shelf and dog-gone-it (!) it didn't sound half-bad after all those years ... so ... we decided to work on that other half ... the half that sounded 'half-bad' remember? And in the process, we started doing little bits of touch-up work on every song and, little by little, bit by bit, we are getting there and, at least some of us are feeling that maybe ... just maybe, we can ... one day in the not too distant cosmic future, actually release it into the wild ... or at least into the wild world of global streaming ... maybe calling it a Super-Explorer's-Collector's-Limited-Edition-Series-Box-Set-Archival-Edition Edition. Or maybe just a remastered Blast from our Past? We'll see how it turns out. So far, all three of us like it ... but we're maybe a little too close to it, maybe?
Oh, and hey, even if it doesn't make the cut (like should we decide that originally, back in 1983, maybe we slipped on too many notes because we were wearing those daft sunglasses in the studio) we just might post it HERE, on our website, as a website-only exclusive BONUS to the fans ... then you can download it in all of its glory and maybe even grow a mustache whilst listening!
Time will tell. We will keep you posted on our progress! So, watch this space!
