An album of hooky, original, and personal songs, produced by Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star)
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Wow, this last month went by both excruciatingly slowly, and insanely fast! But this is it, the final day of the Kickstarter for Looking For Buildings, which ends at 7pm EDT. I want to thank you all again for believing in my project and helping me reach the goal. It's been a rough couple of years and this is definitely a bright spot!
Before this ends, I'd like to ask one more thing — would you share the Kickstarter today? We do have some stretch goals, so if there's anyone out there who needs a reminder to pledge, this is the time to do it. Thank you!
One more thing — at 6pm EDT today I'll do a livestream for the last hour of the campaign, probably with a listening party for the album, or maybe a live song or two. You never know. It's on Facebook Live, but you don't need a Facebook account to watch. Please join me there to celebrate the birth of Looking For Buildings!
Thank you and I hope to see you this evening if you can make it to the livestream! Unfortunately, I know that it falls during work hours for many people.
xoxo,
Wendi
Looking For Buildings couldn't have happened without the help of some amazing musicians. I don't currently have a band, and I'm not good enough at the instruments I play to play all the backing tracks myself, so if the album was going to be made, I needed other people. Luckily, some amazing people played on the album, including the producer, Ken Stringfellow! But you might not be familiar with the other guests on the album, so I wanted to introduce them to you. I asked them to submit bios for me to share. Here they are, in no particular order:
Peter McDade started playing drums when he was 8 and his tapping drove his mother crazy. He's played with Uncle Green since 1980, as well as with Paul Melançon and the New Insecurities. He’s written the novels The Weight of Sound (2017) and Songs By Honeybird (due in March 2022).
Pete played drums on the entire album, except for “Love Is Real“ and “Known Diamond“, which don't have drums, and “You = Spring" which has only synth percussion.
Lynsey Moon is a Massachusetts-based singer, songwriter, ukulele player, artist, and bunny enthusiast. They have been playing some kind of music for as long they can remember, starting with the piano, and expanding to the ukulele (which became their instrument of choice), and the accordion, which started as an impulse buy and turned into a new passion.
Several years ago, Lynsey joined a Facebook group for musicians, Theme Music. This led them into the world of recording, and they would eventually produce three EPs; Muscle Memory, Leased, and wabi-sabi. Their most recent album, Tethers, was crowdfunded and released in September of 2019, and features nearly 40 musicians from all over the country, from the Theme Music group. They are currently working on writing and recording more music, and playing live shows solo, or with one of their other outfits.
A veteran performing songwriter and studio musician, Bill Shaouy (rhymes with "Maui") has performed on stages and in recording studios across the United States since 1991. Across the years, Bill has been a band member of Smile Factory, Doc-Wiso, Desmond Drive, and New Americans. Bill has also performed as a studio keyboardist for Bob Wlos, Kathy Fleishmann, Sean McEntee, Joe Giddings, Jonny Daly, Bob Fenster, Peter Joseph McDade IV, Norway House, The Riff, Stacey Cargal, Peril, Julie Gribble, and Keith Klingensmith. 2016 saw the release of Bill's solo album, The Other Town, named one of the best LPs of the year by Pop That Goes Crunch. Bill continues to write and perform in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sara Depp is a musician, writer and visual artist born in West Hollywood, California, and residing in Seattle, Washington since 2010. Sara was the lead singer of popular blues and soul cover band Little Sara and the Night Owls. In 2016 they recorded Live at the Crossroads, featuring many genre standards as well as Sara's original song, "The Cage."
As a member of long-distance music collaborative Theme Music since 2013, Sara has contributed to dozens of original and cover recordings with performers across the country. Through this group, she expanded her skills to include mixing and arranging as well as basic keyboard and bass playing. Notable collaborations include vocals on several tribute albums, including Commotion: A Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival with band The Relativity Cadenza, and co-writing and co-performing the title song from Lynsey Moon's 2019 album, Tethers.
Current projects include a solo record, an illustrated poetry anthology, and cover songs with two Theme Music-originated groups, Latin Taxez and Cream Legbar.
Writing since 6 yrs old, recording since 14, lifelong South Dakotan and multi-instrumentalist Dave Scarbrough has the tendency—and the desire—to fire up people's adrenaline. Whether post-punk, electronic, power-pop or ballads —"If you don't feel something, then what's the purpose?"
His recordings include the album Leftists Unite, and like other musicians on Looking For Buildings, he is a member of the Theme Music collaborative group.
Dave has two unique distinctions on Looking For Buildings: one, he wrote one of the two non-Wendi-written songs on the album, “Love Is Real,” and two, he was actually on the road trip with Wendi many years ago that inspired a large portion of the song "Buildings."
Matt Brown is a singer/songwriter originally from Somerset, NJ and now based in the Atlanta area. He played for many years with the bands Uncle Green and 3 lb. Thrill, releasing albums on both indie and major labels. He also released a solo album, The Morning After Medicine Show. Currently he runs the Theme Music group on Facebook, where amateur and professional musicians contribute original songs and covers according to a bi-weekly posted theme. Theme Music brought most of the Looking For Buildings musicians together.
Thank you, everyone, for your support of Looking For Buildings! Now that we've reached the official goal, you know what that means... yup, stretch goals! If we reach these milestones, I'll be able to enhance the CD packaging, make some music videos, and send you postcards!
These are the goals: at $4500, the CD package will be improved with a lyric insert! And all backers will get a downloadable lyric PDF. At $6000, I'll make a professional music video for "Buildings." At $6500, everyone at the $10 level or above will get a signed album art postcard! And lastly, at $8000, I'll make another pro music video, but this time, you, the backers, get to choose the song!
We have a little more than 4 days left in the campaign, so we do have time to reach these stretch goals. Thanks for everything you've done so far, and please keep sharing the campaign.
Thank you so much! xoxoxox
-- Wendi