It's important to clarify that this is a "flexible funding" campaign. The album will go ahead even if the full target is not reached. Go ahead and order with confidence. Thanks to all who have contributed so far! - Donnacha.
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LOVE FROM DUST
The Basics
My name is Donnacha Costello. I've been making music for as long as I can remember and have been releasing it commercially since 1996:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/5735-Donnacha-Costello
In 2010 my life changed quite dramatically. I took a step back from music, quickly sold my entire studio and focused on other things.
I always knew I would come back to music and in the past year I have been working with a little synthesiser, OP-1, and posting sketches made with this to my Soundcloud page.
As my life continues to change, I finally feel ready to build up a new studio and to make a new album of ambient, emotional, experimental music - Love From Dust.
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Serendipity
I've been on a waiting list for an EMS Synthi A since 2001, when I first found out that Robin Wood had plans to hand-build a small batch in Cornwall, England. Even as production continued to be delayed, I waited patiently for my Synthi for many years. Eventually, I gave up hope of ever owning this instrument.
Then, something amazing happened. I was contacted by EMS to say that my Synthi was about to be built and would be ready this summer. Unbelievably, the 13 year wait was over. The timing could not have been more perfect as I had just started production on Love From Dust.
Crowdfunding
Selling Love From Dust via a crowdfunding campaign will allow me to generate the funds needed to record/manufacture the album as I want to make it:
- €2000 - Recording/Mastering/Design/Manufacture
- €720 - The cost in fees to Indiegogo and Paypal to run the campaign
- €6200 - EMS Sythi (Or €4000 for Buchla Music Easel)
- €700 - I/O device for recording
The approximate cost of making the album I want to make is €9600
Selling Love From Dust the old-fashioned way, it could take more than a year to recoup these costs. By that time, the opportunity to purchase the Synthi would also have passed me by.
I'm aiming for 66% funding, with the remainder coming from my pocket, which is why I've set the target at €6000. Indiegogo offers flexible funding, which means that if the target isn't reached, the campaign is still funded. I will continue to make the album and manufacture the physical release with the resources at my disposal should I fail to reach my ideal funding target.
Offering
I have started work on Love From Dust and will finish it by the end of 2014. It's ambient music, with a modern aesthetic and uses new ideas and techniques I've developed since the last time I made an ambient album in 2001.
As with all of the music I've released, it offers up a slice of life view of how I'm feeling, my perspective on current aesthetics in electronic music and reflections of the tools I'm choosing.
You can expect to find shades of the emotional approach of my Together Is The New Alone album (Mille Plateaux, 2001) and some of the modular synthesiser experimentalism of my Modul.Isol album (Raster-Noton, 2004).
Don't expect it to "sound like" these albums, I've always tried not to re-tread old ground :)
At the moment, this campaign allows you to buy:
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Love From Dust as a download or CD with download.
- A track by track subscription as Love From Dust is being made
- All of the above plus a thank you and acknowledgment as a financier on the CD
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Megafriend Plus offers all of the above and an additional personal request
- My time and 20 years of experience to get help with your projects
- Equipment rental
- Workshops
Examples
When I make ambient music, it sounds like this:
Or this:
Donnacha Costello - Colorseries Cocoa B
Or this:
Donnacha Costello - Drift Sketch
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Meaning
As I've been seeing people's support rolling in over the course of this campaign, It's been a beautiful feeling to know that after 18 years of releasing records, there are still people out there who love and support my music. To know this, and to continue on our journey together, means a lot to me.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you can't contribute financially to this campaign, I understand that. You could still help to make it successful by doing any of the following:
- Tweet about Love From Dust with the hashtag #lovefromdust
- Post a link to this campaign on Facebook
- Email all your friends and tell them about Love From Dust
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Interview me about Love From Dust for your mag/blog etc..
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Send suggestions for additional perks via twitter: @lovefromdust
- follow @lovefromdust on twitter
- Do anything else you can think of