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Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Salt Minds is ready to record a set of songs that will hopefully melt stuff.

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Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Help Salt Minds record a weird folk record?

Salt Minds is ready to record a set of songs that will hopefully melt stuff.

Salt Minds is ready to record a set of songs that will hopefully melt stuff.

Salt Minds is ready to record a set of songs that will hopefully melt stuff.

Salt Minds is ready to record a set of songs that will hopefully melt stuff.

marie sobonya
marie sobonya
marie sobonya
marie sobonya
1 Campaign |
Oakland, United States
$5,633 USD 97 backers
112% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Dear Friends and listeners!

We are finally ready to embark on recording our collaborative project Salt Minds!

A little Bit About us:
Mariee Sioux and Sean Kae are songwriters from California who have been partners and playing music together for the past 5 years.

Mariee Sioux has been playing original folk music under her name for the past 8 years, releasing two full length records. She started playing throughout the US with her acoustic guitar at age 20. She's since extensively toured Europe, gaining a lot of love in France. Sean has accompanied her in her backup band on 2 European and US tours during a time when Mariee did not want to play her songs alone anymore. They have been establishing songs together for the past 2 years and are ready to share their collaborative creations with the gracious help of friends and listeners.

Sean Kae has been songwriting and playing music for the past 10 years with a menagerie of friends. He recorded an album of his own songs titled "O, Thresher", produced Mariee's last record "Gift for the End", and played various instruments with many Bay Area favorites. 
Along with performing he has also put on local festivals in Marin County and has often helped musicians book shows for free if they needed the help. In the area, He's known as a favorite musician, communicator, activist, friend, and a true eccentric and weirdo- in the best way.

What We Want To Do

Recording an album together as "Salt Minds" has been a dream of ours for years. It's a challenge to write a good song and then record it well, but it's a sometimes an even greater challenge and gift to be able to sit down and write moving, memorable songs with a lover.

We look back at many albums throughout the decades that were made between lovers and see a unique and powerful magic within them, even when they are really cheesy.

Our joint songwriting attempts to weave a diverse landscape of imagery that discusses the modern world and its predicaments.  We hope to send a message of the severe necessity for our generation to start participating in supporting one another. Some songs fringe on apocalyptic references and touch on how disturbing and potentially irreversible the decimation of nature has been under the watch of man.


Our intention with the actual sound of this record is to meld the analog warmth of older synthesizers and acoustic instruments with modern effects and recording techniques, using somewhat classic folk sounds that bend and morph into futuristic realms.

 
In general, we would say this is musically going to be a pretty dark record, with a lyrical message of hope and empathy,

As far as influences to help you imagine this- it would range very widely. From the enthusiastic, morbid political truths of Phil Ochs to the ambient sounds of Kitaro and Emerald Web, to the vocals of Enya and Dead Can Dance. 
But we hope to create something that is truly original, and a sincere part of this time period, while still keeping true to the past and natural instrumentation.

Another real goal here is to bring musicians together, create together, adding the minds of many to the final product, so it is truly a work of art that has no owner. We have also just confirmed working with the amazing Kat Epple from the New Age band Emerald web !! <3

The two are also not new to the recording process, Sean Kae helped in producing Mariee Sioux's second studio album "A Gift for the End". They know how to work together, and love reaching out to others to include them in the creation!
We could use your help, and we're eager to create and share these songs and sounds with you!
(A song from Gift for the End recorded by Mariee and Sean below)


What We Need & What You Get

   •   We are asking for $5,000! Now, you could easily spend much much more than this recording an album, but we want to keep it as homespun as possible (recording with friends, not hiring a producer, not spending months at a studio, but rather in a friends home etc...). This is to help us cover some main costs, but most importantly, it will go towards making sure no musicians have to play for free (approx $2,500 of budget)! It's important that we all support each other, to be able to make music AND eat together ;)
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 Other money will be going towards room and board for people working on the record, gear rental, and general expenses one runs across in recording (approx $2,000). We will mix the album ourselves to save a lot of $ and then will have it professionally mastered (between $500-$700). (Funds for making the perks will come out of our pocket, unless we were to greatly surpass our goal!)

  • If we surpass our goal of $5,000 it will only make this project an easier and smoother experience, with more flexibility, more options, and allowing an even more elaborate final product of our vision <3. So if you can please don't hesitate to donate if we have already reached our goal.
  • We think we have some sweet perks. Check them out. Talk to us If you want to  mix and match/ make a deal. It's no problem- you're giving us money so we will do anything you want us to.
  • You will be supporting the creation of a truly unique album! You will be making it possible for a long time dream of ours come into sonic reality! You will get cool one of a kind things! We will be eternally grateful!
  •  If we don't reach the goal, we'll use the money gathered and make do - get some regular jobs to save up more or whatever it takes to make this album a reality and as sweet as humanly and digitally possible- it must be done!

How Else You Can Contribute !!

 
  • Even if you cannot help financially, your support would be greatly appreciated by spreading the word of this campaign and project! Email your friends, share on your cyber swirling galaxy of social media sites!! Have some blogger friends post about our campaign! Bother your loved ones and friends with incessant spamming of our link! Send Positive vibes. Thank you so much.

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Amethyst Perk

$15 USD
You will receive high quality download of the album!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
40 claimed

Quartz Perk

$25 USD
You will receive a signed Salt Minds poster and a digital download of the record!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
6 claimed

Obsidian Perk

$50 USD
You will receive a Salt Minds poster, a signed copy of the CD or vinyl, and download of the record!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
22 claimed

Serpentine Perk

$75 USD
Admission for you and a guest to one concert of Salt Minds, Mariee Sioux, or Sean Kae, and a signed CD or vinyl + download.
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
2 claimed

Turquiose Perk

$100 USD
Admission for you +1 to a concert of Salt Minds, Mariee Sioux, or Sean Kae. You will also receive a signed Salt Minds poster, a Salt Minds t-shirt, and signed copy of the CD or vinyl + download!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
10 claimed

Jade Perk

$150 USD
Admission plus one to a show, and we will thank you in the liner notes of the album :) + You will receive a signed Salt Minds poster, and a signed CD + download!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
3 out of 20 of claimed

Sapphire Perk

$175 USD
Admission plus one to a show, and we will thank you in print on the liner notes of the album + A signed copy of the Mariee Sioux 7" vinyl of Two Tongues/Buried in Teeth (an out-of-print collector's item), a Salt Minds poster, a signed CD or Vinyl copy of the new Salt Minds record + download!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
3 out of 6 of claimed

Opal Perk

$225 USD
Free tickets to 2 live shows for you and a guest (Salt Minds, Mariee Sioux, or Sean Kae.)+ we will thank you in the liner notes + a signed copy of the Mariee Sioux 7" vinyl of two tongues/ buried in teeth, a signed Salt Minds poster, a signed vinyl copy of Gift for the End (Mariee), and a signed CD or vinyl of the new record + download!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
1 out of 6 of claimed

Ruby Perk

$300 USD
We will record a cover song of your choice that will be sent to just you (any song!) + a signed vinyl of "Gift for the End" + we will thank you in print on the liner notes of the album + a signed Salt Minds poster, and a signed copy of a CD or vinyl + download!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

Emerald Perk

$500 USD
Dinner with Salt Minds! We will take you to sushi dinner, where you can tell us the *cover song* of your choice that we will record (any song!) - Plus a signed copy of the Mariee Sioux 7" vinyl of Two tongues/Buried in Teeth, a signed Salt Minds poster, a signed copy of the finished CD or Vinyl + Download, and we will thank you in print on the liner notes of the album!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
0 out of 5 of claimed

Diamond Perk

$1,000 USD
Free admission to shows for LIFE! (Salt Minds, Mariee Sioux, or Sean Kae), Plus Dinner with Salt Minds, and a recording of a cover song of your choice! Plus a signed Salt Minds poster, a signed copy of the CD or vinyl + download, and we will thank you in print on the liner notes of the album!!
Estimated Shipping
August 2014
1 out of 5 of claimed
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