I'm planning organizing an informal jam for those seriously interested in joining Moebius Cat project, tentatively Sunday, May 6-th, but the date may change. I hope to prepare a couple of ideas and a few inspirational drum/percussion loops to play to if we won't have a drummer at that point. The goal is to meet each other, jam together, see what and how people play, how people fit together (or not), what every person can bring to the project, and generally formulate opinions about people and discuss future plans.

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Now that life has somewhat normalized after having a baby, I'm planning to finally get back to making music :-) This post is for friends, musicians, friends who are musicians and friends who know good musicians :-)

I'm looking for a good vocslist (great voice, no accent in English), lyricist (English), and musicians - namely any of the following instrumens: violin, cello, oboe, flute, electric or acoustic base, electric and acoustic guitar, drums and percussion, any folk instruments etc. Anyone intersted - let me know. The aim is to first record a few songs and sketches I have at the moment in my recording studio, and then if all goes well create a live band and do some performing and recording. Style might be described as something like electro-acoustic progressive dark-folk fusion with gothic and neo-classical influences :-)

Most of you heard this song, I'm just giving it as an example of what a finished song recorded in my studio sounds like: http://www.moebiuscat.com/Ive_Been_Losing.mp3

Here are several sketches (some very rough ideas) of things that I plan to record. Of course when I have enough good musicians for a band, music will be written especially for those musicians. All sketches are with my vocal (that needs to be replaced with something batter) and most instruments are synth and sampler instruments that need to be replaced (and in some cases already are recorded) with live instruments. Note that style of the live band may (and will) differ somewhat from these sketches. It would be more acoustic, less detached, probably more rythm and progressive elements, the goal is to make interesting music. For those with good imagination - look at number 6, imagine English lyrics, more instruments, some solo acoustic parts (violin or woodwinds), fuller sound and good vocal :-)

1. Better Days Than These: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/BetterDaysThenThese_sketch.mp3 - rough version with vocal, and here is the later version playback, with live violin and guitar, no vocal: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/BetterDays_playback.mp3

2 . The Dance Goes On: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Dance-Demo.mp3
Playback: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Dance_playback.mp3

3. And the River Flows: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/River.mp3
Playback: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Path_playback.mp3

4. Silver Rain: http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/SilverRain.mp3 instrumental, will have live cello, unfinished

5. Sketch 5 (no name yet)  :-) http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Sketch5.mp3 - this one is an idea that needs melody and lyrics starting from the piano part... I will finish it if someone is interested in recording it.

6. Rybayat (extremely rough sketch). this is a super-rough sketch of a song in Russian :-) I've done it for a small acoustic band we've created for Russian festival last summer (Acoustic base, 12-string guitar, classical guitar, I played djembe and sung some songs). The lyrics is selected Rubayat (Omar Khayam), so there is an English translation as well, although it's a bit archaic. There are hundreds of them, so we can select the ones that sound best. It might come out quite nice. http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Rubayat_sketch.mp3

7. Light (extremely rough sketch). http://www.romandesign.ca/moebiuscat/Svet.mp3 Another very rough sketch of song in Russian on the lyrics of one of the greatest Russian poets Osip Mandelshtam. There is an English translation.

Feel free to email me at roman@romandesign.ca if you are interested or know anyone that might be.