Simon Fairbairn – Aural Antidotes for a Prescribed Life

My partner and I are about to leave to go travelling indefinitely and I’m slowly selling all of my studio gear as it will no longer be necessary. I’m in the middle of recording four more songs and I have until the start of February to get them all finished before my studio gets dismantled.

Nothing like a consequential deadline to get motivated.

After that I’m hitting the road with a Martin Backbacker and heading off to South America. For the next year, at least, I’m going to be focused solely on songwriting, performing and discovery. South America has a rich musical culture that I’d like to learn more about and maybe get involved with.

To reflect this scaling down, I’ll be doing a minor redesign of this site in February. Then the plan is to start a regular update schedule which will feature any interesting musical discoveries that I make together with my progression and growth as a songwriter.

I’ll be recording rough demos of songs as I go initially, which will also get posted here, then maybe down the line I’ll invest in a Zoom H4N hand held recorder to do more polished tracks.

My partner and I will be writing more extensively about all the non-musical aspects of our trip over at Never Ending Voyage and I’ll continue writing about my design work over at Line In Web Design.

So on top of recording these four songs, I’m designing and writing content for three new websites as well as preparing to leave the country for good.

It’s going to be a busy few weeks!