Dear Reader,
I'm Zach Benton, and I've been performing, recording, & songwriting for 11 years. In 2012, I produced my first studio EP, "Mister Roberts' Epiphany, and last year, I produced & finished my first studio album, "Fall In."
After a very successful and raucous release concert on Keene's Main St. on Halloween night, I discovered that the album had hit #6 on iTunes R&B/Soul charts for new albums. It stayed in the top 50 on that chart for six days. This was an album I made on a small budget, with all original songs, where I'd played almost every instrument.
With "Fall In," I'd wanted to make a timeless piece of positivity, an album with variety, spunk, and melody. When "Fall In" hit #6, I realized that people are listening. They do want positive music, played with precision, with a taste of soul, funk, rock 'n' roll, and jazz.
With your help, I can continue bringing my music to the masses, as well as what the people want: fresh musical sincerity.
What We Need & What You Get
Your funding will be used for song licensing, recording, mixing, mastering costs, and nothing more. The recording and mixing with take place with recording enginer and co-producer Ben Rogers at Loud Sun Studios. The advertising will be funded privately by myself.
If the funding goal is not reached, the money raised will still fund the album.
Incentives for supporting the project include free digital copies of the album, as well as the entire back catalog of my studio recordings. You will also receive credits on the album's online version, and on select CD versions of the album. Premium incentives include signed, unique CD pressings of the album, as well as my entire back catalog on CD.
The Impact
By supporting this album, you will help immensely in the continuation of bringing my unique brand of creativity and musicality to the masses. You will be a contributor to a possible hit album (as my last album hit #6 for R&B/Soul), as well as supporting musical sincerity.
This sincerity stems from the honest dismissal of studio tricks, like the popular vocal pitch correction software which manipulates singer's vocals to sound "perfect." People need to believe in human soul in music again, as opposed to reverting to technology to chase "perfection."
With your help, I will be able to record and produce an album that you will be able to enjoy with satisfaction, knowing that you had a hand in its creation. Not only that, but in ten, twenty, or thirty years, you'll still be able to listen to it, and it'll be as fresh as it was when you first helped create it.
Other Ways You Can Help
Just because you can't give a financial contribution, doesn't mean you can't help the album get made. Share this project proposal with everybody you know; also feel free to send them to
https://www.facebook.com/ZachBentonMusic so that they can hear and see what I'm all about.
Thank you for your time,
Zach Benton