After three more mixing sessions together, working our way carefully through each track on the new EP, Rob and I have finally sent the four songs off for mastering. Our mastering engineer is Ben Beheshty. Ben has mastered a number of our releases in recent years and has always done a cracking job. We are currently looking at a probable release for The Roses and the Busy Bee in late October 2025.
In other news, we can also report progress on the podcast idea mentioned in our last blogpost. Rob and I have now identified half a dozen titles that we'd like to cover in our first series of podcasts. These include five songs, covering the fullest range of the music and topics we are known for, plus a separate edition covering our approach to tune arrangements. As such, we are now scoping out the headings that we'd like to cover for each episode, and our hope is to trial a first recording before summer distractions like holidays begin to intrude.