If you didn’t hear, 11:11 was featured on blocSonic‘s 23rd Compilation, titled “netBloc 23: We Invented the Compilation“. Check it out and keep watching blocSonic for more great independent music. Here’s my live version from the Common Grounds show in Lexington.
Music Monday: About Last Night @ Capalanos
July 27, 2009 By View Comments
We had a small crowd at this show, but we had fun anyway! The sound guy at Capalanos, Steve, plays a mean harmonica, so I invited him to take the solo on “About Last Night”.
New Pics – Common Grounds Show
July 22, 2009 By View Comments
Anna took some pictures at the Common Ground show in Lexington. Check out my new hat and tell me what you think!
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Music Monday – Alle @ Common Grounds
July 20, 2009 By View Comments
Check out this video of me doing an unreleased song, Alle, at Common Grounds in Lexington, KY. What do you think of my hat?
Music Monday – Fantasy World @ The Intrepid Traveller Cafe
July 6, 2009 By View Comments
Happy Music Monday to you! Here’s my acoustic version of “Fantasy World”. It’s a bit different than the recorded, full-band version, but I think the coffeehouse crowd likes this a bit better…and it’s more fun to play this way too! Enjoy!
Music Monday – So Easily @ The Intrepid Traveller Cafe
June 29, 2009 By View Comments
I’m going to start posting concert footage on Mondays and hopefully, I’ll have enough to continue doing this ad infinum. These will be the good, the bad, and the ugly, I’m not holding anything back from you.
I’m starting with my set from The Intrepid Traveller Cafe in Cookeville, TN. I was fortunate to play this delightful venue just before they shut down last week. Here’s So Easily:
Cinco de Mayo = Fantasy World
April 14, 2009 By View Comments
This is best news I’ve been able to deliver during the past year: the EP is done. Yeah, you read that right; it’s finally finished! Recorded, mixed, mastered, artworked (is that a word?), uploaded, and ready to be in your hands!…er…ears, that is. I swear, this has been like being pregnant. Well, not quite, its been a year since we started! Either way, I’m letting my baby out into the wild.
May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, Fantasy World by Christopher Joel will be released on iTunes, Amazon.com, Amie Street.com, here on christopherjoel.com, and quite a few more places. Why wait three more weeks? I’m redesigning everything: my website, my myspace, my facebook page, my twitter profile, my sonicbids EPK, and quite a few other things to match the artwork.
Speaking of the artwork, it was done by one of my favorite artists, Aaron Grayum. For now, that banner up there is all you get to see, but if you search the internet for Christopher Joel, I think there are a few places you can see the rest of it early. For now, I’m going to tease you with just that little bit. 
I’m working on the EP release party, which will be here in Nashville, and some special promotions for that night too; you won’t want to miss it! I’ll email everyone on my mailing list with details as soon as I get them, so sign up for the mailing list if you haven’t already!
Fantasy World has been mastered
February 27, 2009 By View Comments
The last step in recording is called Mastering. Mastering is that last little bit of audio polish that shines up a recording and makes it really sparkle. Not that I consider my music sparkly. Or glittery, it’s not glittery either.
Anyway, Mike and I have been trying for weeks now to mastering these five tracks on our own and discovered that mastering is an art unto itself. Fortunately, we know one of the best mastering engineers in Nashville, Vinnie Alibrandi. I just got some excerpts back from Vinnie and they sound so good!
That means I’m one step closer to an actual release. Fantasy World, here we come!
Rockin’ the Vibe Dial
February 6, 2009 By View Comments
Check out my latest video about working at Vibe Dial Studio.
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