A Master Emerges....Along With an Album Name....

well there it is in all it's done-ness:


The finals were delivered late this past friday from Alan Douches at West West Side Music, and they do sound wonderful. The album is called "Every Branch a Quill" and has 13 pretty powerful songs. This record should be blasted as loud as you can bear it upon first listen. Keep your eyes closed too... invite some friends to join you...
The great Dave Ulrich passed off the artwork for the layout to us last week too... so tonight instead of working on recordings we will be readying the package for the press plant so we can get these things into your hands ASAP. I know this album seems like it will never actually materialize, but trust me, it wont be long now. I was hoping to be saying that late last year - but lots of things conspire to foil your plans. Oh Well. I promise though, it will be worth the wait. There is some really good stuff on this. I'd also like to ask everyone to help us out in funding this - as it was a pretty expensive record to make - i'd like to get it paid off as quickly as we can - not because we're making any money off of it - but it will allow us to make another one next year (which has already been started). So here's how you can help:

1) extra crumpled dollars!!! if you have any - donate!! if you go to http://www.theorb.org and donate via paypal and designate that it's for the New Ancients Music - we will get that $$ and it will go towards offsetting the cost of the production. You can also send donations directly to us at Submergent Music using this paypal button below - if you choose to drop us some love using this you will receive the CD and a bunch of other free goodies in the mail. Give it a try.

2) SHOWS. if you go to a church that would be into getting the band to come and play a service or an event, if you run a coffee house, club, living room or basement show, etc etc, - contact me (pete@submergentmusic.com) - and we'll talk shop.
3) Spread the word about this music. Since this is a band made up entirely of people who have full time jobs and families and other bands - we don't tour and play out - so we don't do any work to get exposure... but word of mouth is a powerful and potent tool for this. talk it up!
4) Actually BUY the music when it's available. This is huge. If you do get the CD (this goes for the 1st one as well).... make sure you actually bought it. If you made a copy of it from a friend or downloaded it you just took 10 bucks from me. 10 bucks that would have been great to put towards paying for the art that i worked so very hard to make with NO ONE paying me to do so in the first place. Get it? I know it's easy to just make copies or download CD's by big rich rock stars without a hit on your conscience - but just remember us sitting in a junky little basement studio making these CDs: None of us drove Hummers to those sessions.

Cool - stay tuned for more news..... Pete