Cajz - the one to carry you

That's right, I've just finished the final mastering of this much-

anticipated and long-overdue album I recorded several summers ago

on a crusty machine with a microphone held together by 

shrink-wrap... =)  But, this album sounds pretty alright IMHO - and

exceptionally good considering the equipment.  



Cajz - short for casual - has a laid back cafe-type background 

style with hints of jazz, latin, and flamenco guitar.  For some really

out-of-date info about Cajz, visit a very out of date site kindly 

hosted by my overseas friend Aaron here.  It's the first album I 

have recorded, mixed, mastered, etc etc so of course there's room

for improvement and my upcoming ones will be much better - but

nevertheless, it's a rare classic... the beginning.  



We need about $2000 to make a run of 500 to give to friends, 

family, and to hopefully sell a few to people who we can 

persuade =)  This is a fair bit of cash, so unless people buy

them we can't make them.  We could just release the album via

the net - but most people like the bells and whistles of having the

case.   So, we though we could sell some to recoup the cost and 

perhaps make the album less of a financial failure.  I think we'd 

sell these to the general public who can afford at $20 each and

to friends who also can afford at $15.  The price will not be below

$15 for anyone so don't get ideas - here's why...



IF we can sell them ALL, we'll probably have optimistic maximum

sales of about $7000.  Subtract manufacturing costs of $2000 and

divide by the 3 of us in the band and you wind up with $1666 each.

This hardly makes the 3 months+ work on this album worthwhile.  

If you think $15 is unreasonable then you can go try making your 

own album and see what you'd like to charge for it... 



We hoping to sell a few in church - maybe at $20 minimum 

donation each.  Unfortunately it's not cheap to create music.

Naturally, the proceeds will all go to helping me make more music.  



Speaking of which, this week will see the dawn of a new era... 

Finally, I'm starting on the next album, "read between the lines".

And subsequent albums, "tangent", "something more" and "live

to serve", in no particular order.  In reality I won't get all four

of these recorded and so I'll probably boil the four albums down 

to only three... and of course I will probably run out of time.  

I think I like 'something more' better than 'tangent' anyway.   

"Live to serve" is an album of blatently Christian stuff, while the 

others just have Christian spirit and faith-influenced lyrics.



Don't forget to comment on my last 3 posts... if you'd like. =)