The new Digital Album!
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 11:36AM Months ago, even days ago, releasing a new album seemed so overwhelming. As the image of what we wanted the album to be formed in our minds over the last few years we knew there were hurdles we'd have to tackle. We knew were releasing an all original album, we wanted it to be available digitally, we'd need photos, artwork, tunes and (most importantly) musicians.
It took us three years to assemble the lineup of musicians we recorded Synergy with. In reflection, the way the universe brought us all together was ultimately very special-filled with stress, growth, joy and pain. It is easy to hold an image in your mind of how you want things to go, how they should appear, yet the universe has another plan altogether. It's that natural progression and order that we've got to get in contact with. After you've hit your head against the wall too many times over that image you insist on some letting go begins to relieve your soul.
We received the mastered disc from our sound engineer a few days into the New Year (recording took place in July and August). We set a CD release show on March 3 and that officially set our timeline for getting our stuff together. Because we are releasing an album of all original tunes we needed to get the music copyrighted. I was SUPER-overwhelmed with just the thought of this. I get scared of processes I am unfamiliar with, I am not a good cold-caller for booking, I get overwhelmed by too many web pages to search or hoops to jump through. Enough digression...I found this article on my favorite DIY music site: http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/registering-copyrights-for-musicians/ And suddenly the process wasn't so scary and $70 bucks later Ryan and I each have an application sent in to copyright.gov. Done.
For this release I do not think we are even going to hard press any CDs except for promo purposes. We are going to be on itunes, amazon MP3, CD Baby and various online retailers. It is pretty darn exciting.
Thank you for supporting DIY musicians!!!