"Sketches for the Musical JIB" -not yet public- & the JIB script for your listening/reading pleasure (Patreon)

hello my loves....

i'm doing this release a little differently, so bear with me.

this is a little EP of songs called "Sketches for the Musical JIB", by yours truly and my soul-sister Jason Webley.

first of all, i'm making the download codes available to ALL of you (including the $1 patrons), and secondly, i'm sending you these files before the music goes to the public, which it will sometime in the next few days. i wanted you *all* to hear this before anybody else did. 

we're really, really proud of these songs. apart from the edward record, i haven't been writing a lot, and it felt empowering and perfect to do it with jason, my best friend and the godfather to my wee bairn. we alternated songwriting and recording with cooking food and playing with ash. everything is possible, sort of. make your own dreams.

JIB....is a long story. here's the long story short (you'll get the long story when i make these songs public and post a long blog/project-page housing everything - that is also the point at which i'll THING this music):

michael mcquilken is a longtime collaborator of both me and jason. jason introduced us long ago, and michael was also the touring drummer for the grand theft orchestra, my band for Theatre is Evil. 

he wrote this play-with-songs, JIB, about seven or eight years ago, and jason and i both saw and loved it. it deals with the interconnectedness of life and people and music. the original play had five or six songs, and when michael decided to relaunch the show in philly/NYC this coming year, he asked if i'd contribute a new song. i told him i'd rather write all of them, with jason as a parner, in the voice of the main character, a rock star named Jib. (you'll recognize her. i say no more.)

these recordings are, as the title suggests, "sketches". we have handed them over to michael and he'll do whatever he wants with them for the musical - rearrange them, de-arrange them, put them in the voices of the actors and the band on stage. we're done. he's on.

jason and i haven't sat down to really co-write anything since Evelyn Evelyn, and we are such an ridiculously joyful songwriting team. we love and push each other. we spent a full week composing the songs at my place in new york and then we went into a studio nearby and slammed them down. jason then went off and mixed everything. it's almost entirely piano and guitar, but there's a little accordion mixed in, and some drums and bass overlaid on certain songs.

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here's the song list:

THE BOX SONG (the musical's finale. this one is my favorite.)

THE BOAT SONG (Jib's first full-band song)

THE WOLF SONG (it's scary as shit, headphones please)

THE FEAR SONG (Jib's "musical theater" moment)

THE UKULELE SONG (Jib gets a ukulele)

THE STAR SONG (Jib's first open mic attempt, with her boyfriend)

*the ukulele song will not be made available to the bandcamp/public. it's too goddam silly. but we want you to hear it.

**there is ONE last bizarre little (slightly embarrassing) song that we're going to send to the $5+ backers in a day or two when the songs go public. watch for it. 

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and here are the files via wetransfer download (....for your ears only. please, PLEASE don't share, especially because we don't want these songs wandering away out of context):

MP3: https://we.tl/tMdtEpBMzO

WAV: https://we.tl/0eo2HIW1Xw

all the lyrics and credits will be posted on the project page.

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MEANWHILE, while you download, i've also attached a PDF of the SCRIPT OF THE SHOW. it was my idea to ask, and michael was happy share it with you guys, and you now have a few choices:

take a bath and:

-read the script, understand the context, and then listen the songs.
-read the script and pause when it's song time, then play along.