Happy Valentine's! New Album: The Space Mermaids of Europa!

Jake Wildwood · The Space Mermaids of Europa

Yesssss, it's here! This is what I was working on in early January over our winter "break." It's been done for a bit but I've recently started distributing my various albums on a bunch of streaming services so I wanted to wait for it to be "up" and easily shared. Of course -- you can download it and stream it free from the SoundCloud player and link above.

The short of it is that this is basically "Book One" in a series of sci-fi instrumental albums featuring the exploits of an electrified string band as they bounce around the various moons and planets in our solar system. This one, The Space Mermaids of Europa, finds the crew exploring underwater on Jupiter's ocean-moon Europa. Europa has a thick icy surface and underneath is, presuambly, a worldwide ocean. 

I'm planning on doing a narrated version of the albums, too, but this one is the shuffle-ready, listen-while-you work or drive format (just instrumental).

As I've been uploading my older albums to streaming platforms (Apple, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon -- where, strangely, Mermaids has gone missing after a week up, and others...) I've also been remastering them to bring them back to life before shoving them out onto the web properly. I've already done over a few and am working on overhauling others as I have time.

For acoustic-oriented folks, Cider Donuts has some new clarity and air to its sound:

Jake Wildwood · Cider Donuts (Instrumental)

For surf/instrumental electric folks, I've cleaned-up We Met in Debt and it just feels more live and fun:

Jake Wildwood · We Met in Debt (Instrumental)

Other old albums are getting "treated" and it's nice to bring these releases up to snuff with my current skillset. I was surprised at how much there was to coax out of really old recordings where the initial material was recorded well but the production was just clumsy.