BIC BLOG 3/28/20

Well this has certainly been a bittersweet week. Michael Rozon and I have managed to FINISH the mixes for ‘the storm before the calm’ Wednesday nite amidst the Los Angles area being under a mandatory quarantine/lockdown. A joyous moment surrounded by uncertainty/panic/death. Maybe we find a silver lining in all of this? One can hope and pray…

So with the mixes done, they are now in the very capable hands of the folks at Becker Mastering. who have enhanced Mr. Rozon’s stellar productions on our last two releases. Once mastered, the tracks will go off for VINYL and CD pressing. As of today, the facility and the other parts to the equation of manufacturing music in physical form are still open and operating, albeit at a reduced capacity. We still have hope that we will have both vinyl and CDs in our hands to ship on or before our MAY 22,2020 release date. It is by total coincidence that the date is also World Goth Day ! Virus induced delays be damned, we will release ‘TSBTC’ on 5/22 no matter…. that part we can control.

Speaking of ‘finding beauty in chaos’ and ‘beauty re-envisioned’, our amazing label 33.3 Music Collective is still offering BOTH at NO CHARGE. Very cool to see so many taking advantage of this and we do hope it makes our current situation just a bit more bearable. There are some real gems in my opinion buried in the 11 remixes NOT on the CD version of ‘beauty re-envisioned’ !

Now to file under ‘no rest for the wearily wicked’ … I am spending my newly found spare time doing a sort of back-to-front retrospective on the 14-song on ‘FBIC’, along with a second look at our 9 current videos. All of this can be found on our social sites. I’ll resume these posts on Monday…

I am working on the title-track semi-instrumental that will end the CD and digital version of the new record. Since I throughly enjoyed the process or really watching the process of ‘beauty re-envisoned’ unfold, we plan on doing a ‘re-envisioned-II (hopefully a clever name comes to me) later in the year. I have started reaching out to enlist some great producers, DJs and artists to have an unabridged go at these songs!

Also working on some work-around contingency plans for photo shoot and new videos to support our new album, Now is the time for clever!

I also received an update from Mark at the MISSION MERCH STORE that there are a few remaining copies of both BIC records signed by Wayne and myself. Also amongst the cool Mish tour merch is the lovely ‘Wayne Hussey and The Divine- Live at Yellow Arch CD, which features an absolutely stunning version of ‘the long goodbye’.

til next week; be safe, sane and kind….

MC X

Get 1 of 50 copies of ‘FINDING BEAUTY IN CHAOS’ and ‘BEAUTY RE-ENVISIONED’ signed by MISSION man-man Wayne Hussey and BIC curator Michael Ciravolo.