Another song-sister link, and a bit of new album activity
Star-sibling Darwin Prophet has landed. Get your Space Oddity on.
Meanwhile, Bekah has raised $300 of her initial album-funding goal of $1300, which she hopes to raise by January 24th--not long. She's got a breakdown of sponsorship options, all of which come with goodies and tons of sweet-sweet incentive (everything from handwritten lyric sheets to personally arranged house concerts; signed copies of DEPARTURES to vegan cookies baked by the artist herself and more!), ranging from $15 to $5K. Click here to help Departures take flight!
Now I must give you all an update of what sort of new albums and thoughts and plots I have been cooking.
As many of you could no doubt plainly see and hear and sense, I have been one exhausted pixie since the summer of 2009.
I've suffered a lot of minor illness and vocal fatigue in recent months. My voice is changing. I'm (gasp!) growing up, ever so slightly. The Strowler events took a lot out of omnisti and me, and all who (went above and beyond and) helped us fly. I knew at the end of 2009 that I needed to rest, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to, not yet, not until several more long months, another album release, and the Strowler events had gone by. Now I've made it here alive, and I'm doing my damnedest just to rest, because it's no fun to be too worn out to play. For quite some time now, I've just not had as much to offer my friends, fans, and loved ones socially and emotionally--I'm that tired.
In order to let me relax, get my strength and confidence back, and seriously buckle down on songwriting and recording, I won't be touring nearly as hard this year as I have for the past seven years. I'll have fewer shows each month, and most of the ones I have will be supported events like Faerieworlds, Mythic Faire, MuseCon, and WorldCon. I'll still be playing all over the country, just without running myself quite so ragged as I have before.
This doesn't, however, mean that you'll be hearing less music from me. Quite the contrary.
Since I will be performing a bit less, I will have more time to finish and record new songs, which I fully intend to do. They're already tumbling out, in fact, since for the past year and a half I have had to put most of my energy into getting through the next show intact, instead of saving any time and brainpower to work on the multitude of new song ideas that hit me every single month, if not every single day. I've got a lot of upcoming albums planned out in my head, all of which I hope to work on this year while I'm resting, and I've already gotten started on some of them. Since there are so many, and since I really do care 100% what you guys think, I'm posting a poll here, so that you can tell me which album ideas you're most excited to see and hear. Since each of my upcoming projects will need its own budget too, this poll will help me decide which albums to work on sooner rather than later, as it's not likely I'll be able to afford to get all of them recorded, mixed, mastered, replicated, and released at the same time... that would spell disaster as well as a new kind of lack of rest, anyway.
I do encourage discussion and questions in comments, as well. I will check back here frequently. Feel free to link this and spread it around to other s00j fans as you please, and thanks for voting.
Poll Vote for your favorite next-album idea!
Meanwhile, Bekah has raised $300 of her initial album-funding goal of $1300, which she hopes to raise by January 24th--not long. She's got a breakdown of sponsorship options, all of which come with goodies and tons of sweet-sweet incentive (everything from handwritten lyric sheets to personally arranged house concerts; signed copies of DEPARTURES to vegan cookies baked by the artist herself and more!), ranging from $15 to $5K. Click here to help Departures take flight!
Now I must give you all an update of what sort of new albums and thoughts and plots I have been cooking.
As many of you could no doubt plainly see and hear and sense, I have been one exhausted pixie since the summer of 2009.
I've suffered a lot of minor illness and vocal fatigue in recent months. My voice is changing. I'm (gasp!) growing up, ever so slightly. The Strowler events took a lot out of omnisti and me, and all who (went above and beyond and) helped us fly. I knew at the end of 2009 that I needed to rest, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to, not yet, not until several more long months, another album release, and the Strowler events had gone by. Now I've made it here alive, and I'm doing my damnedest just to rest, because it's no fun to be too worn out to play. For quite some time now, I've just not had as much to offer my friends, fans, and loved ones socially and emotionally--I'm that tired.
In order to let me relax, get my strength and confidence back, and seriously buckle down on songwriting and recording, I won't be touring nearly as hard this year as I have for the past seven years. I'll have fewer shows each month, and most of the ones I have will be supported events like Faerieworlds, Mythic Faire, MuseCon, and WorldCon. I'll still be playing all over the country, just without running myself quite so ragged as I have before.
This doesn't, however, mean that you'll be hearing less music from me. Quite the contrary.
Since I will be performing a bit less, I will have more time to finish and record new songs, which I fully intend to do. They're already tumbling out, in fact, since for the past year and a half I have had to put most of my energy into getting through the next show intact, instead of saving any time and brainpower to work on the multitude of new song ideas that hit me every single month, if not every single day. I've got a lot of upcoming albums planned out in my head, all of which I hope to work on this year while I'm resting, and I've already gotten started on some of them. Since there are so many, and since I really do care 100% what you guys think, I'm posting a poll here, so that you can tell me which album ideas you're most excited to see and hear. Since each of my upcoming projects will need its own budget too, this poll will help me decide which albums to work on sooner rather than later, as it's not likely I'll be able to afford to get all of them recorded, mixed, mastered, replicated, and released at the same time... that would spell disaster as well as a new kind of lack of rest, anyway.
I do encourage discussion and questions in comments, as well. I will check back here frequently. Feel free to link this and spread it around to other s00j fans as you please, and thanks for voting.
Poll Vote for your favorite next-album idea!