upsidedown cat cd is done!!!

hello hello.
just a note to say that the upsidedown cat album is finally done, and shareable. hehe. if you'd like a copy you can leave me a note or email me at weareupsidedowncat@gmail.com and i can figure out how to get one to you. they're $10 and the first 198 have hand silkscreened covers! hoooray. i think i'll add more pictures later. but i just wanted to announce it!

ps: if you don't know about our yard sale/art sale... you're welcome to it! next saturday 9-5 in st. johns on chicago street (near the red sea church). and it should be pretty fun and you can buy my cd there. and help support the remodel of sound ghost studios!

ps: the picture is of my sketch for the liner notes... hehe. it's on red paper. i'll put up pictures soon! (or better yet you could just own a copy soon!)

box set vol. 1

here's the one and only Sound Ghost Musical Collective CD box set.
Containing: Where Dreams Take Flight by Imaginary Airship, Pull From This End by bruhn, and Soon Fall Will Be Here by Upsidedown Cat, or, our first 3 albums. Box made by Upsidedown Cat.

we made this to send to mike's most favorite songwriter.. we hope it gets to him. i guess maybe someday i could make another one, but it takes a while. it's funny that the blue looks like a check mark!

ta-daaa!

front

inside

back

still have to come up with a booklet/folded sheet, and the cds aren't duplicated yet. but we printed 198 (i think) 4 color screenprinted covers, and i'm really glad it worked out so well. thanks shannon and chris for helping!!!

Upsidedown Cat album covers

i currently have 3 colors out of 4 done for my album covers i'm making... it's been fun, and we're screenprinting them. and it's the first time i've done such a big edition. i think it's 198 covers... ha. and i need to take pictures of the 3rd layer! there were some technical difficulties, but i think they look really great!
thanks to shannon and chris for helping print, and for everyone else's support and ideas!

soon fall will be here- update

so most of us may know that i started recording way back in 2008, in august.
just in the last weeks mike and jonathan have been working hard to get my songs mixed (among other projects...) so... it's been really exciting because things are coming together, and finishing touches are being added. we had annalisa come play violin for two songs, that was a really fun night, she did really well, and the violin adds so much to those songs.
so we're hoping to have tracking and mixing done soon and i'm really excited to put the new songs up online.

school has been busy so album art is still sort of up in the air, but i will get to it. but that is another part i'm really excited about. i also have all those demo songs, (which i love) so i may make some more cassettes since i have a bunch of 20 min ones left. they could be of demos in case people haven't heard them, or want them in a real format.

also as a side note the halloween party was really fun. there are pictures on someone's camera so maybe they will end up here soon. honestly one of my favorite parts of events like that is the inevitable sing-along. we sang some of my songs, and some imaginary airship songs, and some rentals and i forget what else. but i love singing along on choruses... and it was fun to play piano duets on my songs.

so... i was just listening to the demo tracks that are up on my myspace page right now, and it's true, the new versions are so much more full...like more detailed, and of course recorded well. so it's interesting. i've really liked some of the demos, and i was realizing i've lost a few parts of songs i liked a lot that were in the demos. i think it was unintentional, but i know the new recordings are sounding great. and so it's fun to have both! and i'm so thankful for all that has happened during this year of recording because my songs have altered a little, and especially mixing casio with real instruments (ha) like accordion and violin is fun.

so... yeah! i'm really excited, and hoping it'll all get figured out somehow, sometime soon.

thinking...

i don't know yet...

sketch

i've been thinking about album art, but haven't sketched much.
but here's a really quick sketch nearby my house of mount hood, which may be somewhere on there.
basically the plan for the art is to screenprint, so i need to start working on it this week if i can! i have ideas, but i need to start sketching!
and yes, a cat will probably be in there somewhere... and the rest will be a surprise, or i'll show you more as i go!