Storydwelling :: The Music and the Movement (Recording Project Update)

STORYDWELLING IS THE ALBUM TITLE OF HEATHERLYN'S FORTHCOMING, LONG-ANTICIPATED FULL LENGTH 2011 RELEASE! The album includes songs from a shared human story, deeply personal songs from Heatherlyn's story and songs with imagination for the story we write with our lives from this moment, on.

Storydwelling, to us, as a way of life is intentionally being present to our own story and the story of others. It is understanding how we've come to this place here and now. It's deeply listening and authentically sharing from our true story. Growing into the practice of storydwelling cultivates compassion for others and affirms the human connection we all share.

We have been working hard on this recording project since the summer of 2010 when Heatherlyn and Producer Matt Patrick began pre-production work at The Library Recording Studio in Minneapolis, MN.

Many of you began to journey with us on this project when we invited our community to participate through the Kickstarter.com initiative. You may know that that initial effort to fund the project actually failed as we did not meet our goal in pledges. We needed to start back at square one, but we were still able to move forward because so many of you still wanted to pre-order and donate to help make the project a reality!

We can't express enough our gratitude for the faith and love you've shown us in this way. As an independent artist, not backed by a record contract or label, it has been entirely the backing of our community that has made this really incredible work of music possible.

(If your Kickstarter.com pledge also served as a pre-order, you may or may not have known that was automatically cancelled since we did not reach our goal in pledges. No transactions were made. Following the Kickstarter.com initiative, many backers decided to affirm their support and/or confirm their pre-order via PayPal on our website. If you would still like to do this, just go to www.heatherlynmusic.com and you'll see the current options available now! You're backing at this point is still incredibly significant to the project's success! THANK YOU!)

Since the summer, so much great work has been done. SEE PHOTO GALLERIES and read more of the story from each stage of recording.

All the tracking is now complete and we are in the last half of the mixing phase. Storydwelling is coming together to be an incredible, cohesive work of art! We have been blown away by what we are hearing come out of the studio as Matt has been working through each mix.

YOUR PARTICIPATION AND PARTNERSHIP ARE STILL WELCOME and incredibly significant to the project's success!! When mixing is complete, next comes the mastering, replication, packaging and promotion. Together we can still get this released in late spring or early summer! 

Visit www.heatherlynmusic.com now to pre-pay for your CD copy of the Storydwelling album or make a contribution. Big love and gratitude!

ALSO, Heatherlyn and The Storydwellers (the band) have performed five of the Storydwelling songs for a taping of the local TV show Amp It Up! Very soon we will be able to post a link to the show for you to have a taste of the Storydwelling flavor and a see in action some of the musicians that are on the album! We can hardly wait! In the meantime...

ENJOY A PEEK INSIDE THE LIBRARY RECORDING STUDIO via this YouTube playlist!!