The Jooles | Album Release

It's about our first album. The recordings are done, but for the next steps until the release – mixing, mastering, manufacturing and marketing – we don’t have the required money right now. That’s why we ask you for some support in this way.

Our album will be a very personal product, a sum of all of our diverse influences, in which we have already invested so much work and love. Over the last few years we have played so many live gigs, from Berlin to Liverpool. Our songs and us as musicians have really matured during this time.

We want to get this album done on our own label. That has given us the greatest artistic independence that is possible, but it is a tremendous financial challenge when it comes to launching the record. With this campaign and your support, we want to build the basis to build upon.

The first goal is to get the record finished and pressed on CD and vinyl. Beyond that we want to reach as much people as possible and delight them with our music. This means that the more you support us, the more we can put into the marketing and distribution.

That’s why we speak to all of you who feel motivated to kick-start a project such as ours. You love music, like going to concerts or still play records? You are open for new musical discoveries, appreciate hand-made music and the sound of analogue recordings? You honour self-marketing artists and want to contribute to the democratisation of the music world? Then you’re absolutely right here!

Because we need each other. Musicians are always dependent on their fans and supporters. What you hardly notice with well-known artists, is even more noticeable with the “small” minnows. A band can’t exist without those who like and appreciate their music. This is your chance to give utterance to this idea of communality.

A campaign such as this offers the possibility to kick-start a project as a community, whereby it is all financed up front and not re-financed at a later date. This means for example you can pre-order the album and make the funding possible at all. You can also get other rewards for your money.

If we achieve our minimum goal of 5000 euros, it would ensure the basic funding and that you and us would be holding the album right here in our hands. In concrete terms that means:

• the final mix and mastering
• the artwork
• the production of the CD and vinyl record

Any sum above that would be put into marketing the album for the official release. That would involve the usual music business promotion, but could also cover the production of a music video. We know of course that nowadays you will never have enough money for these things. This means that the more we get together now, the more we can do!

If we miss our minimum target, you would have no costs, but we would unfortunately also get nothing. Then there would be no album, unless we come up with finance from somewhere else.