A Long Time Coming!
I've been waiting to release these nine original songs to you for a little while now. If you enjoyed my 2014 EP Crocus Song, or the 2 tracks from Transfiguration Day, prepare for something a bit more mature, candidly reflective, with a bit more of a story to tell. The recording process for this album began in 2017 at the Old Confidence Lodge in Nova Scotia with a project called Transfiguration Day. Now, it's just wrapped up at All Saints Church-Community Centre in Toronto! Covid-19 is a real kick-in-the-pants financially, so I'm asking for a bit of help with releasing this album. Alongside making the tracks and a physical copy available, I hope to have a video ready for the release so we can all sit down and enjoy the music and images together when it comes out -- just the way I've been hearing things in my head for years! Expect a release by June 2021.
Crocus Song is available here (name your price!): https://thomasmccallum1.bandcamp.com/album/crocus-song
Transfiguration Day: https://transfigurationday.bandcamp.com/releases
What We Need & What You Get
I need help funding:
- Recording, Mixing (~$2000)
- Mastering (~$800)
- Video production ($1200)
- Artwork ($200)
- Duplication ($500)
- If you donate you can recieve perks like personal music lessons, a house concert, your name listed in the CD, and the album itself!
The Impact
When I debued these songs at Full Circle Festival in 2017, Mike Kerr called it one of the best sets of the festival. They're not particularly sad songs - nobody gets too too hurt - but a lot of people said they'd cried during the set. If anything can elicit that kind of emotion nowadays, it must be worth something. Maybe we could go somewhere with that kind of energy. A group cry could do us some real good.
My previous project, Crocus Song made its way to the Bedouin of the Jordanian desert and the Sami reindeer-herders of Scandanavia, who sent their words of appreciation.
With this album I want us to think about what it means to know one another by knowing our desires. It begins with "Canada", where the desire to run from one's worst fears and lonliness result in getting a lot of work done, and ends on "Mariner", based on real events, where the narrator wonders how he can go on after having to abandon the boat he built himself. How do our desires propel us, and how do we account for the sacrifices we all make?
Risks & Challenges
Once we get the ball rolling there's no stopping it. The music industry is in shambles, and there's nowhere to really sell CDs. The risk is the same as ever -- art can be seen as useless.
If we don't hit the funding mark we'll release this in stages and cobble them together eventually, but in terms of this project, "eventually" is long gone. Should the goal not be reached, the project will be more self-funded. The video aspect will be reduced.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you just can't contribute, that doesn't mean you can't help:
- Please share everything "Thomas" online!
- Ask a parent, guardian, or wealthy associate to donate.
- Send positive vibes - I get them.
