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 Post subject: Rising Fawn (Chauntelle & Todd) Recordings in the Works.Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:01 am 
Recently Rising Fawn has started posting updates. The most recent is both extremely nostalgic... For reasons and exciting! The posts on their Facebook page feature some audio and video: https://www.facebook.com/risingfawnmusic?mibextid=mna8qTP8xvtPE1tK _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB           
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 5:02 pm
This is getting very close to finished. Sending mixes off this weekend, I believe. I'm pretty happy with it |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:27 am
I'm looking forward to hearing what you all have cooked up. It's been a LONG time coming. _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:16 pm
A slight bit more delay. One more song that was half way finished was considered too good to leave off. I think it's now recorded except for vocals. Are you the only one left in the Laughing City? |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 4:13 pm
I wouldn't say so, but I know myself and TheManInTheMoon (RIP) were pretty good about updating the board on music news. He was on Nashville primarily and was part of the indie music community and Arts scene there so he was always ahead of the curve relative to there. I encouraged him to become a contributing writer to the STL-based sites/ magazines I'd started writing for the same time I'd joined the forum. Anyways, most of my musical news these days comes from what the artists post themselves. Since not everyone uses social media, or certain social media, I know from personal contacts via email, text, and even Facebook groups I curate specific music and arts, I know some of us come here periodically to add to pet threads that hold personal significance, or give us a chance to check in and verify we're doing ok. After the alignment of the major social media magnates along partisan lines I have seen a further retreat from established social media. At this point it's been maybe 22 (or 20) years since I first found this place, and 17 since I actually created an account and started posting. No reason to stop so long as we are so fortunate to have this place. When I do post, I usually post a link to Facebook for the handful of LC members I am connected with there. A special kind of update for us. It's unfortunate we don't have the ability to signal boost like we once did when social media was more apolitical and independently owned and managed. And as we age we tighten/ narrow our circles of influence. Threads felt like a return to that before the change in their "algorithm" to permit more political content being promoted. Bluesky seems a bit closer to that now. All that to day, as a fan and occasional music journalist I will always be excited to hear and share anything the Eisley & Extended Family are doing. This will always be stop #1 as long as it's available. _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:48 am
Well, there may also be more interesting news once this Rising Fawn stuff is done and off to the label--Apart from more Rising Fawn stuff that is also definitely in the works. Last time out with Rising Fawn, it was just Todd and Chauntelle, and just one push at a time to get one release out at a time. Now there's actually a band, with songs and ideas forming that could never happen with just one person at a time writing. The Rising Fawn crew are getting the song pipeline more and more optimized. Over a year in and no slowing down yet, no bad vibes yet. I feel like Eisley loved making music, and their fans loved it, everything was mostly great until WB started sending them off to big studios to record, where everyone expected them to be like every other band. And they weren't. It's great to finally see a recording process that feels like it has at least more-than-a-snowball's-chance-in-hell of being sustainable. (Not that Eisley didn't do some remarkable work despite the bummer recording environments) |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 5:04 pm
I'm really happy to hear about those developments with Rising Fawn. It felt like things took a positive turn circa Deep Space, and the notion of being able to create a space to record at home and get great results become more attainable. And then that became the reality not long after. I remember seeing the vids that were shared of the studio you all built that was used to record Currents & I Was Only Dreaming. Having friends and even family stepping up to add string arrangements and other embellishments ensured that there was never a downgrade in the quality or ambition of the production. It just takes opportunity and experience to get the confidence to assert your own path that way. As a fan, and I wasn't alone in this, we always rooted for everyone in the band to self-actualize and have an outlet for creativity, and that certainly is much easier if you have a space to flesh that out that's shared and accessible, and a community of collaborators nearby. But once you've got it figured out, branching out and replicating those means elsewhere bcomes easier, so if and when people do eventually have to set out on their own path or follow opportunities or relationships elsewhere, there's still potential to create and share. One of the bands I've been a big fan of for years, King's X, sort of pioneered that process right when I really go into them in the late 90s. They had an unpleasant experience, with... guess who, WEA, particularly Atlantic, and got off the label and did a bunch of albums with Metal Blade, which also included solo deals. Ty Tabor, the guitarist/ Vocalist built a studio in Katy TX, and they ended up recording their albums there for the next decade plus. dUg Pinnick the Bassist/ Vocalist ended up moving to LA, and eventually started recording his own stuff too. Jerry Gaskill the Drummer/ Vocalist, was less prolific with his recording, but did put out an album, had a couple of cardiac issues, and moved back home to New Jersey I think it was. And they still manage to recovene, tour, and record, though not as frequently. Last I saw Ty had moved back home to KC (which I didn't even know he was from there originally. I always saw they formed in Springfield, MO and that was it). So now none of them are in TX as far as I knew. When they started that process back in 98' I thought that was an ideal example of how people in bands could self-actualize and keep the band going. "Produced by King's X at Alien Beans Studios, Katy TX" on so many cds over the years that it burned into my memory. Turns out it was not that easy, and so many groups have to let things go to keep life moving forward. Having a stable foundation on that technical end when it comes to writing and recording, where, regardless of external interest, you can keep making music, makes so much of a difference in the output of artists I follow. People I listened to prior to all that like David Garza from Lubbock, who was also on WB/ Atlantic, and managed to score a deal where he was allowed to keep putting out his indie recordings while on the label, never stopped doing his thing cause he had the means to do it before they scooped him up. Another artist I learned about on this board via @inorbit, Laura Kidd aka Penfriend FKA She Makes War is another person who has kept chugging away by creating a nest for creation. I'm glad Rising Fawn has that. Can't wait to hear the results. People used to talk about "The B-Sides" aka the younger siblings here jokingly before there was a Merriment, little did we know how that would play out. And right now I am realizing that now there are C-Sides not much younger than their parents were when they formed the band, if not already those ages. It's a blessing to grow old, but man it's a trip sometimes. Good thing about music is it's timelessness can make you time travel without moving that much at all. _________________ yup, that's my name. FOR YOUR RATING PLEASURE: 4 LIKE Buttons, 1 NEUTRAL, 1 VEXED, 5 DISLIKE buttons. LC > FB
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