Well, it is finally here. We are having our album release party this coming Friday 4/22/22 at 7pmat Ultrasound Studios. It is a private concert and it will be videotaped and then we will post the concert tape when edited. King Yee, a longtime friend from both Catbird Cafe and the Roslindale Open Mike will be doing the videotaping.
Several of the musicians from the album will be performing Friday night: Fred Meltzer on Percussion, Karen Sauer on Piano and Vocals, David Jackson on Acoustic Guitar, Brenda Jane Meehan on Flute and Joe Clapp on lead guitar. My producer Stephen Martin will be on the sound mixing board. The plan is to play the album through from the first song to the last and the concert should last roughly an hour.
I have been publicizing the album and its songs for the past month through CyberPR, Ariel Hyatt’s organization that works with independent artists. They facilitated a professional biography for me by Lorne Behrmann and managed to obtain 8-10 album/artist writeups nationally and internationally. They also helped me to find a lyric video artist, Kat Reinhert who created the Imaginary Tomato lyric video which you can watch here in all of its deadly nightshade glory. Write ups for Drifting To The Right could be found at Stitched Sound who premiered the lyric video, Music Existence, Skope Magazine. Ethnocloud from Toronto, Subba Cultcha based in Amsterdam, Independent Artist Buzz (also added to their Spotify playlist and also spotlighted me in their Indie 5-0 interview column), indie-music.com and The Indie Source. Album tracks could also be heard on Canada’s Tinnitist, Pause and Play, Bombshell Radio, UN Indiefolk, England’s Crash Bang Wallop and Buzzslayers.
Some of the places I would have liked to get noticed, including several Boston media blogs (Vanyaland, The Dig) and independent folk music publications such as No Depression, The Alternate Root and Under The Radar didn’t happen. Thank you to Cyber PR for trying and also for trying a couple longshots, American Songwriter and Pitchfork.
Next step is to start playing out as a featured opener or participation in one of the Songwriters Showcases in the greater Eastern Mass and Rhode Island area. This is going to be a really good summer for music as we all burst out of our collective cocoons into the world at large.