This week's update.

These past few weeks have been obscenely busy. This is my five minutes or so to collect my thoughts and reflect on the work that's been happening on The Fall of Fingolfin.

Mixing is full swing now. Last album I was able to have an engineer friend take care of the mix down process and I was very pleased with the results. This time around, I'm mixing the album and enjoying it immensely. It's been s great experience and I've learned much.

Also, being that Black Friday weekend is almost gone, I figured I'd mention that Ep. 1: The Deeps of Time is on sale. Both digital and cd versions are included in the promotion. To take advantage of this promotion click here!

I am greatly anticipating the next album and you hearing it!

Best regards,
Aaron

Chair

Some days I sit back and think of the people that have backed me though the years as a musician, and more recently, a composer. My dad, Mark Dunn is one of those. He's played bass on both of my albums. He's probably my favorite bass player. (I am aware of how wildly sycophantic that sounds but it is the truth.)

If you didn't know this already, electric bass is my first instrument. I always loved watching my dad play. So that was inspiring to me. It was a dream come true having him in studio for The Silmarillion Symphony Ep. 1. He's contributed his skills to The Fall of Fingolfin as well. It was a slightly different collaboration, as I'm living in the US and couldn't be in studio. But the end result has been excellent.

At any rate, thanks dad!

Another member of the team

Today I'd like to feature another of the mainstay people on The Silmarillion Symphony. She's played trumpet and flute on my work, and was an editor on the first album. I speak of course of Darlene Dunn, who is also my mom. She's been tremendous support to these works of mine. She'll be playing trumpet on the upcoming album, as well as contributing some art work. As I've already heard the trumpet tracks, which I am quite pleased with, I'm very grateful for her contributions in all facets of the project.

Today I also received the live strings for The Fall of Fingolfin. I'm thrilled. Going to recording horn the next two days as well as string bass. It's a busy time here. But exciting. Can't wait to get to show some more previews.

An inside look

So today was recording day 1 for "The Fall of Fingolfin"!

I was thrilled to have my good friend Mason Perkins (masonperkins.com) playing percussion for me today and contributing his considerable nous to the project. Many thanks Mason! 

This yesr's album continues to pick up speed, as yesterday I sent off string parts for live musicians. So we're very much on schedule for the Christmas deadline. 

Would love if you'd share about The Silmarillion Symphony on facebook, twitter or whatever social media you like to use. 

Best wishes!

Aaron

Patreon is now live

The Patreon page is now live! You can visit right here by clicking this link. As always, I am very thankful for all the support I've been given over the past two or so years. So thank you in advance. I'll be getting some awesome content on the page very soon!

The update

This week, I've had very little time to work on the Patreon page - however I should be able to have that sorted by end of month. I have some of the patronage levels sketched out - just have to get the page finalized.

What I have been able to finish was updating my personal website - www.aarondunnmusic.com and I really like how it looks. By all means check it out.

As I get closer to the recording process for the new album, I'm going to do little feature blogs on a some of the musicians who are contributing to the project. I'll be finishing up the percussion scores this weekend.

Hopefully I'll have a video update going shortly. Really excited for the next phase of the project.

Thanks for following along,
Aaron

Speeding up

This week has been extremely busy. My week started out with major orchestration work on the new album. The strings are going to sound fantastic. And I've been working on the recording room in my home as well. This new album is going to have a lot to offer. And all of it is being orchestrated to be playable by small-medium sized orchestras. One piece is even written for an octet.

I also had the chance to listen to some work from last year - all trailer styled pieces. Might have more to say on that later.

I'll be looking at getting the Patreon page up and running again in the next two weeks. Looking forward to interacting with some of you there. By all means, if you're able to donate, that's always appreciated. If not, sharing these posts and other fundraising links is always helpful to me.

Also this week, I finalized a deal to license The Deeps of Time to a video game mod for Crusader Kings 2. If you're into gaming at all, you won't want to miss this mod - it's Silmarillion themed.

Keep your eyes peeled. There's more good news on the way soon!
Aaron