The Funding
The goal of this project is to "crowdfund" the release of our new album Good Morning Dystopia.
You can pre-order the album now and thereby make it possible that it is going to be released.
The Album
Good Morning Dystopia is a fifty minute concept album about urban life, surveillance, alienation and escapism in the third millennium.
The music uses every possibility of progressive rock: Thematic riffs and complex rhythms, melancholic vocals and lush choirs, orchestral arrangements, electronic sounds and much more.
The aim is to release Good Morning Dystopia on CD.
We prefer CDs over downloads not only because they come with a nice packaging, but primarily because this way it's rather listened to in it's entirety and not just one song. This is important to us because the album is composed as one coherent piece with tracks fading into each other and the album is therefore meant to be listened to in the right order and ideally in one sitting.
This project is for all of those who already know our music and want to hear more and for everyone else who likes good music, progressive rock and concept albums.
This project is for everyone who's eager to support new rock music or just wants listen to our new album.
If this project should not be successful, we'll have to find another possibility to fund the production of the CDs and the release will be further delayed. If you donate more, it gets more likely that the crowd funding project will succeed and you're going to get a copy of Good Morning Dystopia in may.
We will use the fundings to pay for the production of the CDs, the packaging, the shipping costs and the GEMA registration.
Also we're going to offer Good Morning Dystopia on download sites like iTunes and Amazon.
In case we should collect more than 1000€ we could produce more CDs and perhaps offer a 5.1 surround mix of the album on DVD.
OSTA LCVE was founded in 2010 by Tobias Geberh and Leon Ackermann after they moved from their hometown Heidelberg to Berlin. Influenced by bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes and encouraged by the success of new Prog-Rock by Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson, they released Colours in early 2011 (listen to it here: www.ostalcve.de).
In 2012 OSTA LCVE played shows in Berlin and released Down to the River (http://youtu.be/QNJBu5QBRjA).
In September the writing and recording for Good Morning Dystopia began.
Leon plays drums and keeps track of the weird time signatures.
Tobi plays guitar, bass, keyboards, sings and deals with the production aspects.