Almost!

Right now I’m mixing one last song. This one last song happens to be America’s favorite called “Cheeseburger Baby”. That’s right. A song about baby cheeseburgers drifting in the vast ocean looking for their true love. Or not.

This will take a few days since I’ve been working on an older generation Mac (a Tiger, w/2GB memory and 60GB hard drive) which makes my life hard at times when I try to mix 60 different tracks, with a thousand plug-in effects and a billion automated fader rides, onto a 2-track master.

But what the hey, this is what I got and so I’ll work with it. With a budget that’s only 1/20 of what we paid for the last album, this album will be the best sounding recording Voluntary Mother Earth have ever produced. In fact, this album will be the best $”Fill in this blank with an amount less than 100“-budget album in the world in all regards.

In a world where recorded music lost its monetary value to most people, it’s important to keep the budget so very amazingly low so that musicians won’t have to work extra hours flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets to come up with the money to record and manufacture and release and promote something

1) that they wrote between their burger-flipping, toilet-scrubbing shifts that take up 60 hours out of their precious week. And,

2) that nobody will pay for.

Just what the fuck are they gonna do with that pile of 100’s of unsold CDs in their Ma’s bedroom closet and the loss of their hard-earned $3000 recording money which they’ll never be able to recoup?

They’d have to work so hard at flipping and scrubbing that they’d be too tired to write any good music by the end of the day. They’d try but all that’s left of them is their exhausted, uninspired-selves by the end of the month.

They pay their rent and bills and they eat their peanut butter sammages and their riceballs, depending on their location. They get frustrated at their miserable little lives and one day decide to jump in front of an incoming train. There are many of them here in Tokyo.

So, to avoid that from happening to YOU, musicians all around the world, do not waste your money on recording. Don’t do it ’cause we ain’t gonn’ buy it! AND do not flip and scrub for too many hours. Don’t even start to think it ’cause you’ll end up being a pro flipper or a pro scrubber, never a living-making musician!

You can record it yourself, and you’ll end up with way more time to spend on your music rather than flipping and scrubbing.

So, anyhow, that’s what I’m up to this weekend, aside from cooking things that look like this for dinner.

How’s yours?

Hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth

Hi there.

I just moved from Yokohama to Tokyo last week. And my new home looks kinda like this.

Took a few days to settle down, but I resumed to mix the new album a few days ago. Currently in the kitchen is my old classic “Just Another Nice Guy from the Orient”. Sounding bitchen. Can’t wait to let you hear this poop.

Aigh, talk to ya soon.

Hugs,
Aki
Voluntary Mother Earth