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Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

We're a Dream Noise duo from Cape Town/Berlin looking to raise funds to record our third album x

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Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

Medicine Boy - Album Number #3

We're a Dream Noise duo from Cape Town/Berlin looking to raise funds to record our third album x

We're a Dream Noise duo from Cape Town/Berlin looking to raise funds to record our third album x

We're a Dream Noise duo from Cape Town/Berlin looking to raise funds to record our third album x

We're a Dream Noise duo from Cape Town/Berlin looking to raise funds to record our third album x

Medicine Boy
Medicine Boy
Medicine Boy
Medicine Boy
1 Campaign |
Berlin, Germany
$3,512 USD $3,512 USD 79 backers
41% of $8,411 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
We've fallen in love with making records. We've been able to do this through the support of a wonderful community of music lovers who find some kind of meaning and feeling in what we create. We've started writing our third studio album and are asking our listeners to help us fund the recording. In return we’re offering new music we've been working on as well as some merchandise created for the fundraiser. We’re looking forward to exploring this new kind of exchange with our audience. x

A bit more about us.

We, Lucy and André, have been making music together for about six years. We started Medicine Boy in 2014 with the intention of giving all we had to the music we love, which meant finding a way to make albums and tour extensively. We sort of jumped into the deep end and continue to figure out how to stay afloat.

We’ve had an incredible amount of support along the way and through that have been fortunate enough to record an EP and two full length albums as well as to have toured Europe, The UK and South Africa.

Last year we took what we felt to be the next step into this sonic calling and moved from Cape Town to Berlin just before releasing our second full length album, 'Lower' through Fuzz Club Records. It has been a year of intense learning and absorbing and we feel ready to step back into studio to record our third album. We're asking those who resonate with the project to help make the process possible.

Music is such an enormous part of our meaning making. The listening, creating and sharing of it. We feel very lucky to be so clear about what it is we want to do with our time. We are confused about many things but this one.

One of the things that is a little more challenging is how to find the funds to continue the process. Moving to Berlin has been positive and important but also rather costly, and music remains a difficult way to generate income.

We are deeply appreciative of the support we get from those who come out to see us play, who buy the music and merchandise, who share our posts when we ask for help or requests, who open up their homes, help find us shows, take photos, make films, design websites and simply share the music.

All of it makes it possible for us to continue to create.  Thank you.

What we're asking and what we're offering.

We’re asking for contributions towards the recording, mixing and mastering of our third record. In exchange we'd like to share some new music we’ve been working on. A song we recorded especially for this fundraiser, an EP of some covers, songs we love, as well as an experimental EP we recorded with a good friend in his studio in Berlin.

We’ve also made a few special merchandise items only available here. A silkscreened poster by the talented Adam Hill, as well a set of playing cards.

We've got a couple of special options for those who might be able to contribute a little more. We'll be writing a song especially for you or recording a cover of your choice. We'll also be doing a handful of private house concerts in South Africa and around Europe.

How much we need and what that will allow us.

An album is quite an intense financial undertaking but by far the most artistically rewarding. 

We're trying to raise between 8000 and 10000 Euros.

This will help us a great deal in paying for studio time, recording, mixing and mastering the album as well as paying session players.

We're hoping to record the album between Berlin and Cape Town in September and December this year.

A note.

Usually the writing and recording process is quite private.

The audience that has grown with us has been steady and supportive and we’d like to share some of the in-between moments.

Once you you've made a contribution we'll check in with you whether you'd like to follow the process a bit more intimately.

Thank you for all the support so far.

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Currency Conversion $11 USD
€10 EUR
'A Window' was recorded in April this year at Sound & Motion Studios in Cape Town on a beautiful piano called Agatha and features a number of wonderful South African musicians. The song will be only be available through this campaign.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
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July 2019
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We've always enjoyed learning songs by the musicians we admire - as a way to pay tribute to them, understand their creative process a little better and spread the music we love. We've recorded a few of our favourites in our bedrooms in Berlin and have put together an EP of covers featuring songs by the likes of Nick Cave and Karen Dalton.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
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July 2019
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Earlier this year we joined our good friend and experimental electronic producer, VVeber, in his studio in Berlin and spent a few days improvising together. He would record/loop/effect what we were doing, feeding it back to us with the addition of sparse percussive elements. Some sections became more crafted while others remain open.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
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July 2019
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Currency Conversion $53 USD
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We wanted to create a couple of unique merchandise items that would be only be available through this platform. Our wonderful friend and collaborator, Adam Hill, has designed a set of Medicine Boy playing cards. Made to be played while drinking red wine in dark corners.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Playing Cards
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October 2019
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Currency Conversion $105 USD
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Adam Hill has designed a poster which will be silk screened exclusively for this campaign. Adam has done all of Medicine Boy's album artwork and has become an integral part of the bands aesthetic and artistic process. You can see more of his work here. https://www.velcrosuit.com
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Silk Screen Poster
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October 2019
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Currency Conversion $158 USD
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For number seven you'll get all that we've created for the fundraiser. This includes all of the digital music as well as the playing cards and silk screen poster. <3
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  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Playing Cards
  • Silk Screen Poster
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October 2019
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We are going to learn and record a cover of your choice. We'll work on these in November and have them sent to you by the end of the year. We're excited about getting a little weird with the songs you love. You'll also get all the digital music we've recorded for the campaign.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Cover of Your Choice
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December 2019
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Currency Conversion $263 USD
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We'll be selling the last few copies from the 300 original 'Kinda Like Electricity' vinyls. The record was released in collaboration with South African labels Permanent Record and Roastin' Records. This was the first time either of us had the experience of pressing an album to vinyl and had a major influence on our process.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • KLE First Pressing
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October 2019
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Currency Conversion $315 USD
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We're going to write a song especially for you. You can tell us a little about what you like (and who you love and what you dream of and what makes you scream/sing/sink) and we'll put something together. We can arrange a deadline together but it will be before the end of the year. You'll also get all of the digital music recorded for the campaign.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Song Written for You
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December 2019
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Currency Conversion $421 USD
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This August our debut EP, 'More Knives' will be released on vinyl through Permanent Record. We are selling the test pressing. The EP was recorded in 2014 over just two days at the beautiful Sunset Studios. The vinyl includes Blues Roses (originally a hidden track and the first song MB ever recorded) and 'I Miss Sleeping So Much'.
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  • More Knives Test Pressing
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October 2019
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Currency Conversion $1,262 USD
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It has always been meaningful for us to be able to play different kinds of shows. Sometimes a wall of noise feels essential but many of our songs are much happier in a dimly lit living room than a chaotic club. If you live in Europe or South Africa we'll come and play an intimate set for you and your friends. We can arrange the time together.
Included Items
  • A Window (single)
  • Some Songs We Love (covers EP)
  • Experimental EP
  • Private House Concert
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Currency Conversion $105 USD
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October 2019
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