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Unsung Heroes Vol. 1 Advance Download Now On Sale!
August 31st, 2010Read the “Unsung Heroes” Liner Notes Here!
August 31st, 2010Mastering Finished; Kickstarter Support Project Launched
July 5th, 2010I finally have a master in hand of Unsung Heroes – really! I know you’ve heard this before, but this time it’s for real. It’s been a long but rewarding journey. I learned a lot of new skills this time around; it was crazy to take on the mix from the ground up but I’m happy with the result and elated with the accomplishment. Thanks, Dave Darlington for taking me through it the first time through, and also to Tyler McDiarmid for all his assistance and tips on the second go round.
Now it’s time to design the liner materials, both online and physical, get the CD manufactured and publicity to help send this child out into the world. The point has come where resources are a little tight, so I’m reaching out to fans and friends for help through a cool fundraising tool called Kickstarter. Kickstarter projects enable independent artists like me to raise funds for their creative work and offer cool stuff in return. In the case of my Kickstarter project for Unsung Heroes, I’m offering pre orders of the CD and downloads, additional products and some other real hip stuff. I invite you check it out and contribute! Believe me, I’m offering good count. My Kickstarter project “Get My ‘Unsung Heroes’ Project Out To The People!” can be found at:
Unsung Heroes Progress Report
May 9th, 2010A short note for y’all – I’m on the road right now with mastering test CDs and things are sounding good! I think I’ll be ready to wrap it up when I get back to town on the 17th. The step after that is to get the design for the CD and the downloadable liner notes finished, get the downloads up the the site and ready to sell, and the CD materials to the manufacturing plant. I want to have something on the site by the end of the month.
I’ll be letting you all know soon how you can help us get this music to the next stage – which is promoting Unsung Heroes consciousness in the hearts & minds of the jazz public. I’ll be looking for my true fans to take part in a collaboration to publicize and support the project. Stay close…
Dangerously Close to Mastering?
April 20th, 2010“When will you make an end?” Soon, I swear it! I’m going through the Unsung Heroes tracks for the last time and I’m 3/4 done. I will ABSOLUTELY have all 26 final prints delivered to my estimable mastering engineer, Katsuhiro Naito, by next week at this time. 26 prints – what? Yeah, things got a little out of control there too. It looks like there will be 3 CDs of material coming out of this project; Vols. 1 and 2 and another volume of outtakes. I’m still looking for an online (download) release date by the end of May.
