Pencil Cup

One large reason posting has been slow over the last year or so is that I've been involved in a large-scale project translating and writing cabaret-style songs based on Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. I've been performing the songs as cantastoria, with the visual component created by my collaborator, Dave Buchen. It looks like this:

And it sounds like ... well, there are links for that too if you click through the links below, or the widget in the top right corner.

This Winter I'm recording an album of these songs, and to the end of making of making this as lovely as thing as it is in my power to make, I'm raising funds through Kickstarter, and you can read all about the project there.

I have a very modest funding vision: If everyone interested in the project gave at the $15 level (which will be the price of the physical CD--and by coincidence, the physical CD is the premium you will receive for donating that that level),  I will easily make my $5,000 goal. (Of course you can always give more! -- or less. Every bit helps.)

I hope you'll consider donating. Underverse has very few costs associated with it--just my time, really, which I'm happy to devote when I have it. But making this CD will mean paying collaborators--musicians, engineers, designers, as well as paying for things like replication, mastering, and packaging.

Plus, if it doesn't seem too grandiose, you're also supporting the whole concept of crowd-funding, one of the unambiguously good things to come out of the internet age.

Thanks in advance for your support, and I'll see you back here soon!