In Living Memory (album)
New York City, New York | Music
Alternative, Rock
"In Living Memory" is an alt-rock album about memory, loss, and moving forwards. The songs are about physics and eternal life, how love changes you (even when it ends), snarling cynicism and quiet, hopeful mornings. These are light at the end of the tunnel songs. It's music to keep going by.
In Living Memory (album)
New York City, New York | Music
Alternative, Rock
1 Campaigns | New York, United States
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"In Living Memory" is an alt-rock album about memory, loss, and moving forwards. The songs are about physics and eternal life, how love changes you (even when it ends), snarling cynicism and quiet, hopeful mornings. These are light at the end of the tunnel songs. It's music to keep going by.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
In November last year I was lucky to be among the top 5 finalists for a serious recording grant for this album - the kind that would have made my wildest dreams come true and taken the weight of being an independent artist (at least temporarily!) off my shoulders. I'm still not sure if I'm allowed to say which one? It doesn't really matter though, because after a week of refreshing my email pretty much 24/7 I found out I didn't end up getting it.
That experience made me realize I can't cross my fingers and hope to be picked by a gatekeeper of any kind if I'm serious about sharing this music with you. That's when I decided to ask for support with the costs of recording, mixing, mastering, and promoting this album - because I am absolutely, 100% serious about this music reaching you. I genuinely believe that this album is the best thing I've made. I have something to say with it that's both deeply personal and I believe truly universal about grief, loss, and how to come through it all in more or less one piece. And I think it might help you to hear it - it's already helped me to start making it.
Look, I obviously don't have all the answers here. When it comes to talking about the past 2 years I've had, as a person, I still don't know what to say. But I feel like I've learned something very real from writing music about it. "In Living Memory" is an alt-rock album about my experience creating, working, living and loving during a period of immense grief and loss. It's about mental illness, twisted coping mechanisms, sunrise, and hope. It's intimate and singable at the same time, streaked with sunlight, looking for a soft place to land.
I could share these songs in a scaled back, voice memo format and still feel proud of having written them, but that's not what this music is made for. I want you to experience them how they'll reach you the best. I want the landscape of them to feel big enough to hold all the feelings contained in them. They deserve strings, and real piano, and big drums! because sometimes grief makes you want to pound on things! As well as soft, layered, delicate guitars over quiet, textured synths that feel like you're there in the room next to me listening to the amplifier's hum, and we're figuring out what to say together next. And I want to work on them with collaborators who mean the world to me and who give up hours, days, weeks, months to make my vision come to life. And all of that takes more than I personally earn, especially while acting as my own record label to promote the end product and make sure it doesn't get buried by the algorithms that run my career as an indie artist. Which brings me back to why we're here.
I truly hope you choose to support this project. If you're a fellow artist, or if sending along a significant sum is just not in reach right now, I would love it if you sent along $5, $15, $25 - an amount that's realistic for you and can be a vote of confidence in what I'm making. If you can afford to give more, I would be so grateful for that. You will be helping this music come to life in a very immediate and irreplaceable way.
Here's how I'm estimating my costs:
I've made one 10 track album before ("The Art of Years") and it took me around 4 years plus just over $10,000 to finish - all of which I earned myself bartending (pre pandemic). I'm hoping this project can be accomplished much more swiftly, to build on the momentum I have in my career now from touring, from industry conferences, from the NYC DIY music scene and the past two years I've spent building our shared community from Park House shows. I have lined up projected costs from all of my collaborators as well as resources I've researched and used before with success (so I know they're legit). I project it will take:
- $8,000 to fully record, mix and master all of the songs
- $2,000 to release and promote the singles, including album art, some short form video content, playlist promotion, all the stuff that makes sure they get heard plus the costs of actually distributing them as an independent artist.
I'm invested in this too! I'm already $2,000 in, and I'm saving up for the costs involved in this project (plus applying to more grants.. because you never know). Which is why my ask is the $6,000 that I need to close the gap.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
studio, production, mix and mastering costs
Costs $5,000
the songwriting is step one yes but this is the secret sauce !!
album promotion, visual content, playlisting
Costs $1,000
this is how you make sure people hear it !!
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About This Team
I'm a Brooklyn based, South Florida born alternative singer/songwriter. I grew up listening to classic rock radio with my mom. The songs I learned how to make music with were Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones, Fearless by Taylor Swift, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, Wildflowers by Tom Petty. My last EP, "Vetiver", was featured at NAMM '25 where I played an Official Showcase, at Meadowlark Festival 2025, Ladybug Festival 2025 and on Tom Petty Radio by DJ Steve Ferrone, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Drummer. I'm a Breedlove Guitars Pro Artist.
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Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
In November last year I was lucky to be among the top 5 finalists for a serious recording grant for this album - the kind that would have made my wildest dreams come true and taken the weight of being an independent artist (at least temporarily!) off my shoulders. I'm still not sure if I'm allowed to say which one? It doesn't really matter though, because after a week of refreshing my email pretty much 24/7 I found out I didn't end up getting it.
That experience made me realize I can't cross my fingers and hope to be picked by a gatekeeper of any kind if I'm serious about sharing this music with you. That's when I decided to ask for support with the costs of recording, mixing, mastering, and promoting this album - because I am absolutely, 100% serious about this music reaching you. I genuinely believe that this album is the best thing I've made. I have something to say with it that's both deeply personal and I believe truly universal about grief, loss, and how to come through it all in more or less one piece. And I think it might help you to hear it - it's already helped me to start making it.
Look, I obviously don't have all the answers here. When it comes to talking about the past 2 years I've had, as a person, I still don't know what to say. But I feel like I've learned something very real from writing music about it. "In Living Memory" is an alt-rock album about my experience creating, working, living and loving during a period of immense grief and loss. It's about mental illness, twisted coping mechanisms, sunrise, and hope. It's intimate and singable at the same time, streaked with sunlight, looking for a soft place to land.
I could share these songs in a scaled back, voice memo format and still feel proud of having written them, but that's not what this music is made for. I want you to experience them how they'll reach you the best. I want the landscape of them to feel big enough to hold all the feelings contained in them. They deserve strings, and real piano, and big drums! because sometimes grief makes you want to pound on things! As well as soft, layered, delicate guitars over quiet, textured synths that feel like you're there in the room next to me listening to the amplifier's hum, and we're figuring out what to say together next. And I want to work on them with collaborators who mean the world to me and who give up hours, days, weeks, months to make my vision come to life. And all of that takes more than I personally earn, especially while acting as my own record label to promote the end product and make sure it doesn't get buried by the algorithms that run my career as an indie artist. Which brings me back to why we're here.
I truly hope you choose to support this project. If you're a fellow artist, or if sending along a significant sum is just not in reach right now, I would love it if you sent along $5, $15, $25 - an amount that's realistic for you and can be a vote of confidence in what I'm making. If you can afford to give more, I would be so grateful for that. You will be helping this music come to life in a very immediate and irreplaceable way.
Here's how I'm estimating my costs:
I've made one 10 track album before ("The Art of Years") and it took me around 4 years plus just over $10,000 to finish - all of which I earned myself bartending (pre pandemic). I'm hoping this project can be accomplished much more swiftly, to build on the momentum I have in my career now from touring, from industry conferences, from the NYC DIY music scene and the past two years I've spent building our shared community from Park House shows. I have lined up projected costs from all of my collaborators as well as resources I've researched and used before with success (so I know they're legit). I project it will take:
- $8,000 to fully record, mix and master all of the songs
- $2,000 to release and promote the singles, including album art, some short form video content, playlist promotion, all the stuff that makes sure they get heard plus the costs of actually distributing them as an independent artist.
I'm invested in this too! I'm already $2,000 in, and I'm saving up for the costs involved in this project (plus applying to more grants.. because you never know). Which is why my ask is the $6,000 that I need to close the gap.
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
studio, production, mix and mastering costs
Costs $5,000
the songwriting is step one yes but this is the secret sauce !!
album promotion, visual content, playlisting
Costs $1,000
this is how you make sure people hear it !!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
I'm a Brooklyn based, South Florida born alternative singer/songwriter. I grew up listening to classic rock radio with my mom. The songs I learned how to make music with were Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones, Fearless by Taylor Swift, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, Wildflowers by Tom Petty. My last EP, "Vetiver", was featured at NAMM '25 where I played an Official Showcase, at Meadowlark Festival 2025, Ladybug Festival 2025 and on Tom Petty Radio by DJ Steve Ferrone, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Drummer. I'm a Breedlove Guitars Pro Artist.