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Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

After 23 years of instrumental music, Free Radicals is ready to speak truth to power with words.

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Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

Free Radicals Hip Hop, Poetry, Vocalist Album

After 23 years of instrumental music, Free Radicals is ready to speak truth to power with words.

After 23 years of instrumental music, Free Radicals is ready to speak truth to power with words.

After 23 years of instrumental music, Free Radicals is ready to speak truth to power with words.

After 23 years of instrumental music, Free Radicals is ready to speak truth to power with words.

Nick Cooper
Nick Cooper
Nick Cooper
Nick Cooper
1 Campaign |
Houston, United States
$3,953 USD 58 backers
17% of $22,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
After 23 years of making mostly instrumental music, Free Radicals is collaborating with vocalists, rappers, poets, and improv artists to speak out LOUDLY about the end of white supremacy. We have been recording all these years on shoestring budgets, but this time we want to be able to pay guest artists fairly for their time, and we need your help to do so.

Free Radicals 8th Album: Hip Hop and Vocal Music

  • Over the last 23 years, we have always collaborated with rappers, poets, spoken word artists, and singers, but this is the first time we will put non-instrumental music at the forefront.
  • This campaign is your chance to push a Free Radicals project to a new level.
  • Your help is crucial. We just hope the community that has gotten us this far is ready to help push this project over the top.
  • This project will help us to pay the guest musicians, vocalists, rappers, poets, etc. Free Radicals bandmembers will not take any money from this campaign for writing, practicing, rehearsing, arranging, recording, or producing for the album. We will make money from live shows and if the album generates income.

What We Need & What You Get

  • We will use this campaign to offer all of our guest artists money upfront for their sessions (in addition to royalties), and invest in recording, duplicating disks, producing professional videos, hiring professionals to promote the album to reviewers and radio, and other logistical. production, promotion, and travel expenses.
  • We have assembled a unique merchandise collection to help reward our donors.
  • If we fall short of our financial goal, we're still going to do what we have learned to do over 23 years -- make the best project we possibly can with the resources we have.

The Impact

  • Free Radicals has always been a huge project. Most of our albums have over 40 musicians contributing and take several years to complete. Our 8+ piece horn arrangements are always real instruments, and we never use midi. Our material is original and written by all of us collaboratively and individually. Our musicians have been as young as 20 and as old as Harry Sheppard, who at 91, is one of the few musicians who has been included on all of our albums.
  • The albums always have heavy themes, which are conveyed by the artwork and the titles, but this time we are harnessing the awesome power of the best wordsmiths we know to call out white supremacy, a still very lethal force (despite the fact that it may be in its death-throes).
  • Free Radicals has hit the streets to protest injustice everywhere. We're not expecting to ever get rich doing this, but this many years into a project, we don't want to keep hitting up our musician friends to do us a favor of collaborating with us, and we want more professional videos and promotions.

Other Ways You Can Help

  • If you don't have anything to contribute, please help us to get the word out to others who can, and don't forget to use the Indiegogo share tools!
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Choose your Perk

House Party
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House Party

$1,900 USD $3,000 USD (36% off)
Free Radicals will play at your Houston event! We will work with you to find a date that works for our musicians and you.
Included Items
  • Live Concert Performance
Estimated Shipping
October 2019
0 out of 5 of claimed
Supporter

Supporter

$1 USD $2 USD (50% off)
Everyone who donates $1 will be thanked on our website.
Included Items
  • list your name on freerads.com
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
1 claimed
Exclusive Preview Single

Exclusive Preview Single

$10 USD $11 USD (9% off)
We will choose a hip hop track to be the first single from the album, and before it is released to the public, it will be sent to people who sign up for this perk. We will send you 2 digital files, mp3 and wav.
Included Items
  • Digital Single Download
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
1 claimed
Digital Download of CD

Digital Download of CD

$15 USD $20 USD (25% off)
As soon as it's ready, you'll get a download of the entire album in both mp3 and WAV formats.
Included Items
  • Album Download (mp3 and WAV)
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
5 claimed
mp3s of all 7 albums

mp3s of all 7 albums

$20 USD $70 USD (71% off)
Every song from our first 7 albums. Hundreds of songs, 8+ hours of music.
Included Items
  • all our recordings 1998 - 2018
Estimated Shipping
July 2019
11 claimed
Advance Copy of the CD

Advance Copy of the CD

$25 USD $30 USD (16% off)
Two or three weeks before the album comes out, you will get one of the CDs fresh off the presses.
Included Items
  • Free Radicals Hip Hop CD
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
9 claimed
Ships to United States of America
protest video: you or kids

protest video: you or kids

$50 USD $100 USD (50% off)
Film a clip of 10 seconds of you or your loved ones dancing, doing something creative, doing a political protest (holding up a sign or otherwise protesting whatever you want). We'll edit together all submissions into a big protest video with a song from the album.
Included Items
  • I wanna protest something!
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
0 out of 55 of claimed
Signed CD & Tons of Schwag

Signed CD & Tons of Schwag

$99 USD $115 USD (13% off)
Free Radicals Band Members will personally sign your copy of the CD, plus you will get tons of different Free Rads schwag!
Included Items
  • Signed Free Radicals HipHop CD
  • pin
  • sticker
  • Free Radicals T-Shirt
  • refrigerator magnet
  • Static Cling
  • Bumper Sticker
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
7 out of 30 of claimed
Ships to United States of America
Be in our video!

Be in our video!

$250 USD $500 USD (50% off)
When we are shooting a video in Houston, you or someone you choose can be part of it. The role depends on the video and we will collaborate to decide what role is best -- protester, dancer, bystander, evil genius, evil idiot, etc.
Included Items
  • appear in our video
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
2 claimed
Become a Guest Free Radical

Become a Guest Free Radical

$500 USD $750 USD (33% off)
Pick out any jazz standard, pop tune, or any style we can play and we will learn it and rehearse it with you or your friend or family member (all ages!) Then, at an upcoming show, we will welcome the player to the stage and feature them on your song.
Included Items
  • choose a song, sit in with us
0 claimed
Serenade

Serenade

$900 USD $1,200 USD (25% off)
Two of our musicians show up at a house, place of work, hospital, wherever they'll let us in, to deliver your musical message of love. We can do jazz standards or various other love songs. 2 songs per performance. Houston area only.
Included Items
  • A Free Radicals Serenade
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
0 claimed
Executive Producer: You

Executive Producer: You

$2,500 USD $5,001 USD (50% off)
Donors at this level will be listed as an Executive Producer on the website and the CD under their own name or anonymously if they prefer. You won't get to have any editorial input, but your financial contribution will be one of the most important aspects of making this project happen,
Included Items
  • Name you as Executive Producer
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
0 out of 7 of claimed
the benefactor

the benefactor

$22,000 USD $25,000 USD (12% off)
Pay for the whole project and you can choose your title. We'll perform a show for you anywhere you bring us in the U.S., arrange a professional photo shoot, and a night out with the band. Since the band would want to proudly promote anyone who hooks this up, don't buy this perk if you're a creep, exploiter, or predator. We'd rather be broke :),
Included Items
  • one click and we're done
Estimated Shipping
November 2019
0 out of 1 of claimed

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