ESKIMO JOE take the lead in an ever changing musical landscape and join the ranks of some of the most progressive artists around the world as they proudly announce a crowd funding initiative on Australia’s leading creative platform, Pozible.
Todays’ campaign launch will see ESKIMO JOE engage with their supporters in a series of unique and exciting initiatives making them one of the first Australian multi-platinum artists to embrace the newest fan engagement technology as they move to raise $40k for the recording and production of the bands forthcoming brand new album. This will be the biggest fan based contribution campaign for music by an Australian artist on the Pozible platform!
Early 2012, with no plans for an impending album, ESKIMO JOE began jamming in their newly completed Perth studio (The Wasteland). What followed was a series of demo’s born naturally of a process completely creatively unfettered. Recognizing the strength of the new songs, the band made the decision that in order to continue to encapsulate this organic process, a new approach was required.
“This is our 6th studio album, but it really feels like a whole new experience. We feel like this is a record where we can really do whatever we want, we’ve thrown all creative pressures and expectations out the window and we’re just enjoying playing music. So it feels really exciting to have the crowd-funding aspect of this record involved too, as we can really involve the supporters from start to finish.
We feel that this is a great way to connect with our audience throughout the writing/recording process, without having a live camera on us 24 hours a day in the studio. The band will be connecting daily through our social media sites, I’m pretty sure we’ll have some fairly strong thumbs after all the tweeting and blogging. We feel that involving all our supporters like this brings a real responsibility to us to make a fucking awesome record and to also make them feel a real part of it. This feels like a new creative beginning for us.”
– ESKIMO JOE
With today’s innovative launch, the bands supporters can now head to www.pozible.com/eskimojoe where they have the opportunity to take a creative journey with ESKIMO JOE through the recording, mixing and mastering of the bands forthcoming 6th studio album due for release mid-2013 with some exciting and unique opportunities.
With an incredible range of packages up for grabs including advance copies of the bands forthcoming new single, to exclusive unreleased material or a BBQ with the band there are packages to appeal to all. For the bands uber supporters, the opportunity to see the band perform the record in full live in the Perth Studio ahead of the album release, a limited number of custom made guitars hand crafted by Stu and the incredible opportunity to have the band work on producing a song in their Perth studio, The Wastelands! Packages will also be available to pre-purchase as gift ideas. Beautifully designed PDF gift certificates will be issued when packages are purchased as gifts throughout the duration of the campaign.
To coincide with today’s announcement and launch, check out the video from ESKIMO JOE:
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