Latest News from ALTERA ENIGMA
NEW MUSIC UPDATE
Work has been progressing at a great pace and writing and demoing is all but complete. So far we are over the 60 minute mark for the release, and that will probably end somewhere near 70 minutes by the time of release. We've lots of ideas for bonus material, exclusive releases and such, so expect a lot of new material when the second album is released.
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ALTERA ENIGMA YOUTUBE CHANNEL
We've just created and begun posting video blogs on the Altera Enigma YouTube channel; http://www.youtube.com/user/AlteraEnigmaBand
The channel will be used to blog our updates, studio footage, general thoughts, announcements and anything else we feel like! So far we have a video of Kenny and myself discussing the current state of the band called "Where are we at?", and two videos of us playing some new new music from the next album.
Head on over to http://www.youtube.com/user/AlteraEnigmaBand and have a look.
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>> ALTERA ENIGMA ON TWITTER<<
To keep people up to speed as the new material is being done, the ALTERA ENIGMA Twitter page has been created. I have started tweeting snippets of the work process and plan to document the highs and lows as this album moves from concept to release. If you are interested in getting an inside view of the creation of the next album head on over to http://twitter.com/alteraenigma and follow us there.
In future, Twitter followers will be able to get exclusive downloads, additional media content and win prizes, but more on that as it gets closer . . . so join us to stay in the loop.
-Jason De Ron
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MARCH 2010
Time has flown. So much has been going on in our lives that Altera
Enigma has had to take a back seat for a while.
I have been writing and demoing material, but not nearly as much
as I would have liked. For a multitude of reasons, getting time to work
on Altera has been difficult, but I have taken every (limited)
opportunity I can to get some new material created. More importantly we
have been planning the musical future of the band; where we go from
here, both in terms of style and in distribution & releases.
Stylistically we are not going to release "Alteration 2". In fact, we
are moving on from Alteration. Altera is a progressive band, and I
define progressive in the literal sense - we 'progress' and we are
always trying to grow from what we have done before. There were things
on Alteration that we think worked and that we now see as part of the
Altera sound, and these will be kept and developed. There are also
things that we look back on and think that aren't where we are going
and do not want to keep anymore. So the sound of the new material is
familiar and, to me, sounds like Altera, but is different enough to
keep it interesting for us, and hopefully you.
Now a quick word about Jeff; He has stepped down from Kekal and away
from music in general and has decided that his input into our next
release will be minimal and needs time away from Altera. I'd personally
like to thank Jeff for his involvement in the band; he has been a
founding member along with myself and Altera is as much his as mine,
and without him there would have been no Altera in the first place. I
still take advantage of Jeff's creativity and inventiveness and his
ideas for the future will continue shape the sound of Altera.
So where does Altera stand at the moment?
Well there are new songs in various states of completion, from just
started to almost finished. And I have mapped out where I want to take
the band over the next 12 months or so, and what we would like to
achieve. The next objective is to get the material written and
recorded. I'm working on that. As for when to expect a new release from
Altera Enigma . . . well, the answer is 'when it is done, and not
before it is ready'.
The material takes a lot of time to do, and we aren't going to rush it,
but the pace will now increase and I will be working more on it. So the
plan at the moment is for it to be available sometime 2010. No dates or
promises though. But I can promise that Altera is very much alive and
that new material is on the way.
Thank you all for your support of the band over the years, and
we really hope that you'll like the future material as much as I am
enjoying writing it. Stick around . . . it's going to be fun!
News prior to 2010 has been archived. To read older news visit the Altera Enigma Newsletter Archive