The Journey of My Solo Album: Early Reflections, Late Night Decisions

Since I have released on streaming platforms all my songs from my first solo album I will need to tell its story and this post will be the perfect place to understand everything about the album. 

 

In 2011, as music streaming via the internet became the in thing, I got the courage to released the album to the public for everyone to hear. Only 10 tracks were included in the release and it was titled “Early Reflections, Late Night Decisions”. The songs were made available on spotify, deezer, Tidal, Youtube music, amazon music, applemusic and a lot more digital music platforms using the original cover art. This was released under the Indiepinoy label. 

In 2023, I rerecorded some instruments yet retained the vocals and the arrangement of the songs. This was made because digital redrumming was invented and I didn’t like the obvious sound of the drum machine used in the original recordings. Stem separation was also invented and now I can split all tracks and mix them properly. The original recordings were done on 4 track, thus I had to do a lot of track bouncing to bypass that limitation. The tracks were remastered and this is what you hear now on the streaming platforms.

Then came 2025 and new technology in digital music arrived. I then decided to rerecord and release the 8 remaining song which was not included in the first release. I included 2 more songs which were originally recorded by LVNA in the 80s for which I was the bassist at that time. I then called it “Other Reflections”. This will be available on all streaming platforms starting July 2026. 

Artificial Intelligence became controversially popular in music in 2026, and I tried my hand on it. I made AI covered the 10 songs in the first release trying to maintain the arrangement as much as possible. At first I had it for my own listening, but I was really amused by the results and so I released them on streaming platforms as well. This was now called “Late Reflections (Nolit Covers Nolit)” with an album cover which is also an AI version of the original art.

 There are more songs from my “demotep” collection, 40 in total. Plus there is more in my “cattleya” notebooks, some melodies are still in my head. I will then make other posts about each album and every song in it, including the “demotep” collection. This post is just the introduction. I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing about it. Please do listen to the songs here in these albums. They are on all music streaming platforms. Just search for my name and it will all pop out.