Hey Guys, really cool to hear from you all!. I have no news to add to

the pot,~ our Peter is mighty quiet at the moment, so its good to

hear from you Jon that music is on its way, Hooray!.

Beam On,
love
Polly

--- In positivelybeamin@yahoogroups.com, "beamfriend"
<jonsfielder@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Beamers,
>
> Sorry about the silence for a while. We're all such busy people.
I'm
> putting on a musical at a local theatre in a week and a half, so my
> hands are full. But I was so sorry to see that little is going on
at
> this website and I thought that now may be a good time to update
you
> a little about the next Lacey album.
>
> As usual, Peter hasn't told me the title of the next album and the
> track listing is also under wraps. But it's certainly underway.
Peter
> came around a while ago to do a heavily "computerised" number -
> meaning my PC system was used for an orchestral arrangement in a
> similar way that we did "The Old Haunt" some time ago. I also spent
> two days recording some overdubs at Peter's "loft" studio. One of
> them used fairground organ sounds - resulting a little like "For
the
> Benefit of Mr Kite" from the Beatles' "Sgt Pepper" album. More
> recently I added some electric piano to a west coast American type
> track. There was another - a song about a painter, but I can't
> honestly remember what I did. Can you believe that? It was fun
though!
>
> I hope you all got to hear our arrangement of "I can hear Music"
> which we had great fun recording at mine. Some of the fun came in
the
> creative process of choosing bits of other tracks to interpolate
into
> that one. It must also have been the first time that Peter has gone
> completely "digital" in terms of recording. Rumour has it that he
may
> have invested in some digital equipment himself but it won't be
> affecting the way that he records.
>
> I saw him two weeks ago for a fun musical session with Peter
Caruana
> too (Remember him?). Pete's voice just gets better and better. I
> can't give you any release dates for the album but I think the
> recording & mixdown ought to be complete anytime now. I'll give him
a
> nudge to let you all know.
> Best wishes and keep beaming. Jon
>