Over winter break I told my friend Carissa about my dream of doing an album, with musicians I chose to collaborate with, how I would go back to Palestine and Israel and just play with people. Because I felt in all honesty that it was my best asset in honest communication. Music is more succinct than words I often find. She then told me about Indiegogo. A way to raise money as a wholly independent artist to produce a good studio album, or at least a half-way decent one. I submitted my request and read the know-hows, I looked at other peoples', who were successful, sites and had to think analytically about how to get the word out. I really want to do this project. It's on my list of things to do before I die, to produce an album, I didn't know it was going to happen this way when I wrote it. So now I did my homework, called studios, got quotes, checked flight costs, checked professional CD printers, and spoke with collaborators. It's all ready and now I'm just polishing it. I've been learning how to make myself look shiny on-line. Yesterday was the first step, as my friend Maria took some amazing photos of me. Here are some of them:
I thought that I would feel egotistical with photographs of myself, but Maria has worked magic, and it isn't just a photo of me, it's representing my music, and it's being worked with Maria's own form of paintbrush. Next all I have to do is make a video. I have to make that shiny too, I want this to happen so badly! To be able to create this would be such an amazing opportunity.
much love,
Abby
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