"Lonesome Goldmine" refers to the enormous inner world in every person which is so largely unconscious. The intention for this album is to create both a doorway and a companion for those who want to explore the depths of their being with Love and Courage.
Lonesome
Goldmine is my first album of original music. Many of you know me for
my repertoire of Jazz Standards that I have been performing over the last 10 years. This new body of music is a
departure, emerging
from the imaginations of many creative minds and has been a dream
incubating for years. I started writing some of the songs on the album
in my teens. It feels wonderful to now be in the recording and
collaborative process which has been an odyssey all it's own.
Lonesome
Goldmine is ambient, hypnotic and multidimensional. I have visions for epic mixed media video art and performance art to
accompany each track- but first things first! We have
to finish this album. We are right in the middle of the recording
process and are launching this Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to
cover the cost of the recording, mixing, mastering, paying the musicians
and the technical team. The money will also enable us to put the album
in digital and physical formats so that we can share it with YOU! This
all means paying a lot of people to do a lot of things.
To
create Lonesome Goldmine’s unique sounds I have collaborated with many
brilliant musicians and will be bringing more on board. So far, the line up
includes, Mark Kuykendall, Lindsey Neal kuykendall, Amy Cottingham, Josh Massad, Andrew Bones, Jordan Hehl and Jesse Aycock.
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My
producer and engineer, Mark Kuykendall, is one of the most magical
people I've ever met. I say to him "Can you make it sound like the ocean
is swelling over head painfully loudly and you're becoming tinier and
tinier in it's vastness until you're suddenly wiped from
existence?".... and he makes it happen (listen to the end of "The Going
Prayer" on my originals page at www.annieellicott.com).
Mark makes a crumpling piece of paper sound like a close-up on a spider
crawling though a winter forest in "Daddy Long Legs" (which we are
currently recording). Mark brings my music the cinematic elements that I
have, for years now, obsessively fantasized about.
If
we raise extra money, the first thing we will do is make more music
video's. We've just released the official music video for "Goddess
Androgyny" which you got a sneak peak of in the video for this Indigogo campaign! The set for the
video is almost totally comprised of artwork by JP Morrison Lans and the
video features Myself, JP and Lindsey Neal Kuykendall.
Mark
and Lindsey Kuykendall are co-founders and co-owners of Unknown Tone
Records, which will be releasing "Lonesome Goldmine" at the end of this
year if all goes as hoped! You can also watch the music video for
"Lonesome Goldmine" (the title track of my album) on this page, on my
Youtube Page and at www.annieellicott.com. The video for Lonesome Goldmine was written and directed by the incomparable enigma, Joe Cappa.
We
are trying to bring art into the world that fosters deeper
introspection, deeper self-knowledge and deeper self-acceptance as a way
of remembering our truest nature, of reconnecting with the wonder,
mystery and underlying goodness of existence.
I
cannot express enough gratitude, wonder and amazement that I feel for so many beautiful hearts and minds who have taken an interest in this special project.
Wishing you all the love your heart can bear,
Annie
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www.AnnieEllicott.com
www.UnknownToneRecords.com
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BUDGET OVERVIEW:
(rounded to the nearest 10)
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$1,800 - Records with color label and white sleeve
$120 - 300 Recycled chipboard jacket for 12" record
$200 - 300 Double sided artwork inserts
$80 - 300 CD inner sleeves
$600 - 500 Color CD's
$120 - 200 Blank kraft chipboard digipaks for CD
$100 - 200 6 Panel CD insert
$230 - 10" & 5" Letter-press plaques + Letterpressing (friends discount)
$500 - Miscellaneous art (PR and Album)
$2,000 - Extra incentive fulfillment (paying accompaniment, travel, shipping etc.)
$4,500 - Complete recording of the album (studio time/engineering and musicians)
$1,000 - Audio mastering
$1,500 - roughly 1O% to IndieGoGo and money exchange fees (go to Iniegogo fees and pricing page for more specific info)
$2,250 - 15% to campaign management and PR
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Total:
$15,000
