Almost There... Where?

Wow. As I sat and listened to the final mix of A Promise is a Promise, it suddenly REALLY hit me - I'm almost done!After gathering songs I've written over the last decade, polishing them up, practicing, arranging, recording, re-recording, adding, subtracting, re-recording..., wrestling with mixing, ideas of better arrangements, wishing I could have played/sung it better, wishing I'd written easier songs.... mixing, mixing, mixing... and now we're here - on the brink of musical completion.I will NEVER look at music in the same way again.And tonight, as I write this - we're just 1 week away from sending all the music to the printer to press and print the CDs.The album artwork is 95% finished, my Thank Yous written, rewritten, and waiting to be rewritten again tonight and tmw.I may not end up with a perfect product, but I sure as heck am trying my best to give my most perfect effort.There's still so much to be done... that I almost feel like I can't just sit here and be happy that we're pretty much done with production.I still have yet to plan how to launch, promote and sell my album - I'm completely independent... so that means - lots of work to hard sell my own product. I'm considering placing some stock at Gramaphone...What other ways do local artists in Singapore have to push their music to a mostly nonchalant public? I don't have the advertising power of Lady Gaga, (and neither the image to cause that kind of hoo haa to generate interest), I don't really wanna go table to table at each venue I play at trying to peddle my wares.Yes, thus is the plight of the local indie artist.Anyway, those are thoughts for another day.For now I am just going to sit here and listen to my final raw mixes and be happy that I've actually made it THIS far.I've a long way to go still..., but I won't discount the fact that I've also come a long way. :)