And... We're Rolling!

Thank you from all of us (especially Adam with his new 'do)!

Hello again! (and Welcome to our New Contributors!)

Thanks again to the best, most generous, and most supportive fans a band could ask for!

There's news since our last post - we've made it to almost 65% funding and we still have a month to go! This is the "hard" part of an Indiegogo campaign - the first funders (you) have come through for us and we want to keep the momentum going so it's not too hard to slide into "home" in the last week or so. But you all have put us in such a great position that we're really confident we're going to make it - probably with a little bit to spare (and fund some of our "wishlist goals")!

As of right now, we've booked the studio for January 10, 2016, Adam is feverishly working on great arrangements for our "new" songs, and we're excitedly preparing for American Thanksgiving in Portland, and Christmas in Vancouver! I'm also making a bunch more videos to release on our Facebook and YouTube pages, and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have!

And, as always, we encourage you to continue to talk about our campaign, share our news, and "drive traffic" to our website and Campaign Page. The more we spread the word, the sooner we can guarantee that the basic expenses are covered, and we can start taking care of the "fun stuff" - more musicians, photo shoots, work permits (so we can have the "real band" play in the US), all kinds of great things that, while not absolutely necessary to making the album, will make it better!

We'll keep you posted on all the news as it comes in! Thanks again for investing in music!

Julia (and JPJQ)

Thank you! And... Welcome!

You're here because you've proven what we already knew about you - YOU'RE AWESOME! Thank you so much for contributing to our Indiegogo campaign!

So let me get you up to date.

At the end of June, just before Adam and I moved to Portland, we went into Monarch Studios to record what at that point we figured was going to be a promotional EP. Basically, for those of you who don't know, an EP is longer than a demo (which is usually about 3 songs) and shorter than what used to be an LP (full length album). So a promotional EP would be about 5 songs, which we'd be able to send to club owners, booking agents and festival selection committees. We'd also be able to sell some of them online or at our gigs, and of course give them as gifts. But we weren't really thinking about making a whole, full-length album.

We thought we'd be happy getting those five songs in the can that day. We brought a few extra charts, so we might have something to choose from, if one of the songs didn't work right away... We ran through those 5, and all our extras... we have 9 songs "in the can." (Honestly, we had time left at the end of the day and probably could have recorded one or two more if we'd had more prepared - we just had no idea that the band and the engineer would be SO AMAZING).

So suddenly we were faced with either cutting four great tracks and making the EP we'd planned, or potentially releasing all of them as a slightly short full length album. I had mixed feelings about this, since I feel like every piece of art needs to tell a story, and an album is definitely a piece of art. This was a group of nine great songs, but I didn't really feel like it told a story. (Maybe that's why I haven't recorded an album of my own before now; I didn't feel like I had a story that needed telling.)

As you know, since you presumably read the Indiegogo campaign, I have a story now. Thank you for helping me tell it.

Thank you for being in "at the ground floor," and we'll be in touch soon!