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The Tide, Leontine's new album.

Become Leontine's producer: be part of this exciting project and help us finish our new album.

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The Tide, Leontine's new album.

The Tide, Leontine's new album.

The Tide, Leontine's new album.

The Tide, Leontine's new album.

The Tide, Leontine's new album.

Become Leontine's producer: be part of this exciting project and help us finish our new album.

Become Leontine's producer: be part of this exciting project and help us finish our new album.

Become Leontine's producer: be part of this exciting project and help us finish our new album.

Become Leontine's producer: be part of this exciting project and help us finish our new album.

We Are Leontine
We Are Leontine
We Are Leontine
We Are Leontine
1 Campaign |
Mexico City, Mexico
$6,239 USD by 62 backers
$6,156 USD by 61 backers on Apr 25, 2015

Leontine

We are Helena Sánchez and Rodrigo Barbosa. We're married and dedicate our lives to music; we now have a project called Leontine.
For a long time we have been making our first album – The Tide – which has been a wonderful adventure shared with lots of great friends, and it's not over yet. Our passion for music has led us to create a very exciting record which we're very proud of and dying to share it with you. But it's also an ambitious project: we recorded in two of the best studios in the city in order to keep up with today's great music productions; we had lots of special guests who made amazing contributions but also made it more complicated.
The Tide was born out of our need to make our passions audible. It's a very personal and risky album and every part of us is present in each of the 10 songs contained in it. With your help we will be able to finish it and share our music with everybody willing to listen. It will be the start of the long life journey in which we plan to be working for a long while.

What we have to offer

We're completely committed to this project. Still, it is hard to make a living as a musician and also produce great albums. Although ours is almost completely recorded, there are still some expenses that we need to cover before we're able to release it –we want to be able to offer beautiful artwok to go with the album and a great website–. We got a great deal from Topetitud and Intolerancia, two of the best studios in Mexico, but once we added to it the mixing, mastering, graphic design, manufacture and promotion fees, we realized we would have to ask for help.

We want to use this to build a community, to connect with people that, like us, are looking for new music, new honest voices that might help inspire and generate ideas.
You can be a part of Leontine and this experience, and get some of the very special rewards that we created for our backers: a song written just for you, an exclusive showcase, tickets to our shows and signed CDs, amongst many others.

We decided to take the risk and go ALL-OR-NOTHING. Will only get the money if enough people support and believe in us. If we meet our goal then we'll be sure that this community is growing and that we have managed to move and inspire others.
Then we'll be able to give something back: our music.

Our history

Both of us have been involved in music for a long time. We have been part of a lot of bands and had the opportunity to travel and contribute to someone else's music, but all these years we were looking for a way to express ourselves creating our own music. The Tide is the result of that search, and in it we try to speak in the most honest and authentic way we're capable of.

In this record we were honored to have some of the most amazing musicians in Mexico, and they happen to be also our good friends. They believed in this and shared their music with us, and as a result we have 10 songs put together by the talent of people such as Cuong Vu (David Bowie, Laurie Anderson), Milo Froideval (Latin Grammy Award Winner), Alex Otaola (Santa Sabina, San Pascualito Rey), Benjamin Shwartz (Klezmerson), Guillermo Perata (Paté de Fuá), Daniel Zlotnik (Los Dorados, Zoé, Natalia Lafourcade) and many others.

The challenge

This project began forming in our heads about 5 years ago. Since then, we've had a lot of obstacles in the way: moments of great doubt, people walking out of it, not enough technical equipment, etc. None of that made us give up; we have learned that it's a tough road to walk. Lots of musicians learn this and decide to quit or move on to other projects, but we've come this far and grown so much in the way that we've become stubborn enough to keep on going. We believe in our music and trust others will do so.

What else you can do to help

Still, it's not all about the money. A band can't survive if no one knows about it, there are many things you can do to help: something as simple as using the "share" options or talking about us with others can generate echo. You might think we need big contributions, but any kind of help might make the difference.
You can also be a part of this community by getting in touch with us, following our social media and sharing your experience and thoughts with us so we can build a relationship that transcends this campaign .

The Tide has come this far thanks to the help of a lot of people, and it will be released the same way: join Leontine and become our record label.

* If you want to help but you don't own a credit card, you can still contribute! Just send us an email to weareleontine@gmail.com and we'll tell you what to do / Si quieres contribuir pero no tienes tarjeta de crédito, escríbenos a weareleontine@gmail.com y te diremos qué hacer.

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Become a fan

$1 USD
Download of our first single "Burning Flags".
Estimated Shipping
May 2015
0 out of 100 of claimed

Now you're part of this

$5 USD
5-song download
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
3 out of 100 of claimed

You're still our great backer

$10 USD
Full album download + 3 stickers
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
8 out of 100 of claimed

Come to our show

$20 USD
Option 1: Two tickets to a show (Mexico City or Guadalajara). Option 2: An exclusive video of a song played live sent to you via streaming. + Full album download
Estimated Shipping
July 2015
11 out of 50 of claimed

Meet & Greet

$50 USD
Option 1: Two tickets to a show + meet & greet backstage (Mexico City or Guadalajara). Option 2: An exclusive video of a song played live sent to you via streaming. + Full album download, 1 limited edition poster, 5 stickers, AND special thanks on the website and social media.
Estimated Shipping
July 2015
7 out of 30 of claimed

A private show!

$100 USD
Option 1: An exlusive video of a song played live, sent to you via streaming, including a special greeting just for you. Option 2: Two tickets to an exclusive showcase for 50 people (Mexico City). + a signed copy of the record, special thanks on the website and social media AND 1 special edition poster.
Estimated Shipping
July 2015
1 out of 20 of claimed

Now you're our patron

$200 USD
Option 1: A private 3-song showcase sent to you via streaming with a personal greeting for you. Option 2: Two tickets to an exclusive showcase for 50 people. + 5 signed copies of the record. AND special thanks on the record!
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
3 out of 15 of claimed

Become our producer!

$300 USD
* From $300 onwards * Option 1: A short song specially made for you. You tell us the story. Option 2: A meal with us in a very special place in Mexico City (two people). + Production credits on the record. + 5 signed copies of the record.
Estimated Shipping
June 2015
3 out of 10 of claimed
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