It is with delight - and no small sense of WHEW - that I say we finished the final mixing and mastering for Rising!
Dana White was amazing to work with in this final stage. Many thanks to Sacha Müller for connecting us with Dana, and for coming along for that mastering session to answer questions about the mixing, be extra ears, and make suggestions. We are thrilled with the results, and can't wait to share them with you!
Being done with the mastering means we have spent the last few days cleaning up the last of the non-musical details. Alex Atallah, our percussionist/graphic designer, has been hard at work on the CD cover art and layout, and we are all chiming in with final edits (that photo? no, that one), and I am doing the last checks on affiliations, getting licensing agreements signed, etc. so we can send the whole project to Oasis, who will print the CDs. It should take about a month to get them back to us, and then we'll ship them, and the other rewards, out to you!
Being done with the mastering means we have spent the last few days cleaning up the last of the non-musical details. Alex Atallah, our percussionist/graphic designer, has been hard at work on the CD cover art and layout, and we are all chiming in with final edits (that photo? no, that one), and I am doing the last checks on affiliations, getting licensing agreements signed, etc. so we can send the whole project to Oasis, who will print the CDs. It should take about a month to get them back to us, and then we'll ship them, and the other rewards, out to you!
Survey Coming
We will soon be sending out to you, via Kickstarter, a survey to ensure that we have all the info we need to send you the rewards you picked when you pledged your support. Please keep an eye out for it and respond; we'd hate for you to not get your thank-yous!
CD Release Concerts
We have set up two shows to celebrate the CD release. The first is Saturday, November 12th at 7:30pm at Kairos UCC in Milwaukie, OR. The second (for anybody who can't make the first, and, hopefully for people who hear the first show and get excited enough to drag their friends along to the second) is Friday, December 2nd (probably an 8:00pm start) at Salt and Light Lutheran Church in NE Portland. We'll have info posted here soon. We will also send reminders to the fan list, so if you want to be reminded and aren't already on that mailing list, you can sign up here.