The Chaos Tree - Is dead, long live Rollasoc.

I was going to delete the original Rollasoc blog and start a new one for the "solo" project, but I didn't want to lose posts, like my musical journey ones, or the fact that four years later, I still haven't released "A Winter's Memory", (even though it is mixed and mastered), nor "Persephone", (though that isn't far from completion). 

But sometimes, you have to keep the embarressing history of a lack of progress.  

So why the delay?

Time and procrastination would be the honest answers. 

Working on two (well three, but one is a secret),  other musical projects, which have been releasing an EP or two each for the last four years, family expansion, (which is pure fun) and a major illness, has slowed me down and possibly a lack of direction. 

Since this is a vanity project for me, not allowing myself to work on it, until I completed tasks for other musical projects meant this set of songs has been a frustrating niggle at the back of my mind for a very long time now.

A couple of years ago, I decided to speed this thing up, it might be nice to collaborate with some people, so I changed the project name to The Chaos Tree, but I never got around to asking anyone, so I'm changing it back to Rollasoc.

 I already have the social media names for Rollasoc and although there is no other bands called The Chaos Tree, someone is using that name on Instagram and Youtube, so it kind of tarnished the name for me.

"A Winter's Memory" had occasionally, been remixed or re-mastered over the last four years.   It is currently sitting there waiting to go.   But I've had in my head an idea for a music video for it, but haven't had time to start it.  So it has been delayed.

I have started designing the characters for it.

So this is the first character, Marnie.

The above will be the cover for the single. 

With The Hair Thieves, we used to use a manniquin as a cover, then moved onto smoke art.

With Sineglider, the covers are now all fractal images.

So going forward, each Rollasoc cover will be computer generated person / scene.

I'm not sure if any others will have animated videos, I hope so.

I'm thinking of releasing A Winter's Tale in September 2020, video or not.   We shall see.

I will try and blog monthly from now on and make some musical progress.