Hi everyone!

In our spare time we've been slaving over hot microphones, guitars and mixing desks. Not one but two albums are in the works.

I'm rapidly putting together tracks for my own forthcoming release: F-35. This promises to be an odd journey through my back catalogue and new material, all interpreted through the lens of a quick-and-dirty recording process. The album is dedicated to my acoustic guitar, a Fender F-35 Dreadnought, circa 1976. The guitar was made in Japan, found its way to the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and thence into the bedroom of 14-year-old me. In the years since then we've collaborated on a stack of songs, and I've decided to record a selection of these. The Jordans album has been taking so long (with so many other things to do in life, it's often hard to find the time to get into the studio) that I wanted something immediate. I've taken the bold step of limiting my scope, by putting only three mics on the drums, one on the acoustic guitar. I'm working fast and applying the discipline of getting songs finished rather than perfect. It's been a real challenge, but also a good learning opportunity.

With some help from Shane Hill for the mixdown, I'm aiming to finish it in mid-May 2011, and do an initial pressing of only 100. If those go, maybe I'll do another hundred.

The Jordans Play's new album is entitled Small Things @ LightSpeed. It's our most eclectic mix yet, with no less than 17 tracks ranging from indiepop all the way to indie rock. Okay, maybe that's not such a huge distance, but there's a couple of tracks we can't pin a label on at all. Anyway, there's painstaking work going on here, crafting the final versions of much-demoed songs and trying to get that damned snare sound right. With the production process scheduled to finish by the end of February, expect a late-April-ish release date. More info to come!

Meanwhile, we've got limited numbers of the last two CDs sitting on a high shelf in the studio, as well as the very last few of our old t-shirts, so and make us an offer for some of those. As we're moving premises within the next year, it'd save us some shipping costs.

Please, roam around the site. By all means see where we've been. But definitely download and listen.

In the meantime take a look at the videos below. The first is a version of Love Comes To Ground, recorded live in the studio during the recording of the new album. Two mics, a videocamera, and off you go. It predates the recording of F-35 but influenced the approach ... and thus another version of LCTG appears on that album. The second video was a dark night in the cellar with a rough bit 'o lighting and a couple of microphones. Don't Follow Me Now was the result.

We're planning to release some more web videos following the album, so this is a bit of practice for that. Ideally we'd have videos available at the same time as the album release but ... well, we'll see.

Anyway, until the next instalment ... cheers!

a.d.