Songs My Mom Liked EPK - Anthony Branker
ANTHONY BRANKER
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Hi Everyone!! Here is my first EPK (electronic press kit) that was shot at our recording session for “Songs My Mom Liked,” an album of music dedicated to my 88-year-old Mom, Joan Branker. As I look back at my own life, I am so grateful that she was my first teacher and that she helped me to develop my love for learning, which greatly contributed to defining my life as an educator. While she has been mightily challenged by the advanced stages of cognitive decline in the form of dementia for the past seven years, my heart remains filled with all the incredible memories of life with her before this disease took control. In order to complete this project, I have set-up this GoFundMe project page and hope you can help support bringing it into the world!!
The inspiration for this recording came after witnessing how Mom’s state of being would transform in positive ways whenever she listened to some of the music I had composed earlier on in my career (her face would brighten, her body would start to move and sway, and she would even hum or sing some of the melodies!!). So this album is a reimagining of 11 of these compositions, 9 of which have been previously recorded, but this time they are performed by a group of musicians that have never played them before. There is also a piece my daughter Parris wrote back when she was 11 years old that will be on the album!!
As you might imagine, creating and putting out an album is a costly endeavor and involves such things as payments to the musicians for recording and rehearsal time, travel costs, 10 hours of studio recording time, another 15+ hours for mixing/editing and creating the final master, CD manufacturing and distribution, promotional mailings of the recording to radio and critics, a publicist, radio promotion, video recording/editing - all of which come to an estimated cost of $24,000 for this project.
Please help us get to our GoFundMe goal of $20,000 for the creation and release of the album “Songs My Mom Liked” by Anthony Branker & Imagine
Here are our incentives for supporting this project:
Donate $20.00
• A digital download of Songs My Mom Liked to be released in June 2024 with Donny McCaslin, Philip Dizack, Fabian Almazan, Linda May Han Oh, Rudy Royston, Pete McCann, and Aubrey Johnson
Donate $35.00
• Digital downloads of 2 albums - Songs My Mom Liked (see above for personnel) and What Place Can Be For Us? A Suite in Ten Movements by Anthony Branker & Imagine featuring Walter Smith III, Philip Dizack, Remy Le Boeuf, Pete McCann, Fabian Almazan, Linda May Han Oh, Donald Edwards, and Alison Crockett
Donate $50.00
• Receive a physical CD copy of Songs My Mom Liked signed by the composer
• A digital download of Songs My Mom Liked by Anthony Branker & Imagine
Donate $200 or more
• The complete Anthony Branker & Imagine discography signed by the composer (physical copies of Songs My Mom Liked, What Place Can Be For us? A Suite in Ten Movements, and Beauty Within). These recordings feature performances by Donny McCaslin, Walter Smith III, Ralph Bowen, Philip Dizack, Remy Le Boeuf, Pete McCann, Fabian Almazan, Linda May Han Oh, Rudy Royston, Donald Edwards, Aubrey Johnson, and Alison Crockett
Donate $500 or more
• You’ll be prominently credited as a “Patron” in the CD Booklet for the album Songs My Mom Liked
• A set of the score and parts for two of the compositions on the Songs My Mom Liked album (PDF)
• The complete Anthony Branker & Imagine discography (3 physical copies of the albums) signed by the composer
Donate $1000 or more
• Executive Producer credit on the album!!
• A set of the score and parts for four of the compositions on the Songs My Mom Liked album (PDF)
• Physical CD copies of Songs My Mom Liked, What Place Can Be For Us? A Suite in Ten Movements, and Beauty Within (3 albums) signed by the composer
• Digital downloads of Songs My Mom Liked and What Place Can Be For Us? A Suite in Ten Movements by Anthony Branker & Imagine
Donate $2000 or more
• Dr. Branker will invite you to a special live masterclass where he will present a workshop on “Finding the Inspiration to Compose” and will explore some of the compositions from Songs My Mom Liked on Origin Records in addition to answering any questions you might have on the music or the process of creating it. The masterclass will take place via Zoom and will be scheduled at a time that works for the majority of the participants in this donation category.
• Executive Producer credit on the album!!
• A set of the score and parts for eight of the compositions on the Songs My Mom Liked album (PDF)
• Physical CD copies of Songs My Mom Liked, What Place Can Be For Us? A Suite in Ten Movements, and Beauty Within (3 albums) signed by the composer
• Digital downloads of Songs My Mom Liked and What Place Can Be For Us? A Suite in Ten Movements by Anthony Branker & Imagine
Thank you all so much and I hope we can count on your support.
Blessings to You Always,
Anthony