Dosa Jhana rehearsal 1
The first rehearsal with Dosa Jhana was great! We had a good time and also we managed to play through all the songs without a lot of trouble. Of course there where a couple of glitchy things on the road, but we pointed them out and we know aht to do. so, I dare to say that not a lot will be standing in the way of a mega cool performance supporting the almighty Cynic!

Obsidian shows
Next we have some show coming up with Obsidian: one the weekend after the Cynic gig with Dosa Jhana and another one in November in Eindhoven with Model 101 and Misantropicana.

Project 'Psyclus'
Next to this all, I've finally started a project in which I'm trying to create music out of some rhythmic ideas that have been floating in my head for some time. I've been wanting to do this for quit some time, but I hjust never got to it. Now I finally did and I found Sjaak (Obsidian) and Kees (Sphere of Souls) willing to help me out on respectively guitar and bass. Also Ewell (Industrial Passage) and Tobias (Sacrilegious Mind) have been helping me with converting two texts I've written into a soundscape and a synthesizer loop, both of which I will be using in the project.

One of the main goals of the project was to create music in a way that feels natural to me, which means not per se by writing out stuff, what you could call more on a traditional way. I already started to try out some different ways, as you saw by for example writing a text that contains a strong image and having others reflect musical images or patterns of that, or by tossing up a rhythm or a phrase and jamming a song structure out of that.

Anyway, things are looking very good at this moment as we are a pretty good part into the first song. It has a good basic structure and I'm working on the drum parts right now.

As you can see things look good and nice and it's all very inspiring! It seems like there's a whole new phase happening and I enjoy it very much: I've been waiting for stuff to pick up like this and I'm very, very happy that it finally does. Thanks to all my good friends helping out and working with me. Cheers!