As usual, let me first welcome all the new subscribers and especially those at N1M and those that found their way via Drooble. This site is our new focus for exposing our current projects along with our history. More details on our current projects are going up on our Patreon site link. If you are new, a standard statement of our philosophy and how it creates value for you is always included at the end of this newsletter. This first paragraph or something very similar will begin every newsletter. Thank you for the reviews and feedback on the Lorne James, April’s Fool Demo Project. There are still a few rave reviews we'd like to include in our promo's but I do get that you can't necessarily like everything. According to Harvard Business School, they have discovered something they call a triple-double. For those unaware of this fact, we do treat our music as a business and therefore pay attention to the stuffed shirts every now and again. Anyway, the triple-double is the idea that from conception to finish, any new idea or project will take 3 times longer to complete and cost 3 times more than your very best projections. You'd think after all these years running an indie label we'd have caught on by now. Our reworked websites are still unfinished and un-launched and every day costs us. You can't buy anything yet. As a result and to gauge the effectiveness of this newsletter, if you, my faithful subscribers, want a track, send a message via the N1M site with your email and any track up here we'll send you a download link for free. There are 2 exceptions. The Teaze track and the Don Sprik track cannot be sent this way. The festivals are back to front and center and the Jael African tour is in Limbo while the Teaze reunion continues to march toward Japan. Early April will see a very exclusive, VIP only, first reunion show in our hometown of Windsor. The theatre only holds 700 seats so tickets are highly prized. It's a benefit and a number of corporations have bought out sections for their VIP's and JLT Records has a few they are trying to figure out what to do with... Auction to the highest bidder? Find and give to the biggest fan? All options are on the table at the moment. We're taking suggestions. Email them to jaelmusic@gmail.com. The "Under the Tent Festival" is looking at a preview concert with several artists called MarchMusic. We are very excited to be releasing many old and new projects with current and past friends of the label this upcoming year. Watch this space for more. The Status of the Projects That Are Up Next. Audio recordings: 1. Playing for an Audience of One - Jael. This will be open for pre-orders by the next newsletter. I know I said that last newsletter but remember the triple-double. We hit some snags but are back on track. The new release date is approximately in time for MarchMusic. 2. Concert for Whale World - Jay and the Rubber Band - 2nd in the Children's album set similar to Dynamite the Dinosaur. Cover art is in progress. Songs are written and demo’s done. This is an older album that was lost to a flood before it was released. Live video of a few songs are floating around the web. 3. Where's Peter Duo EP. Jael with John Krasinkiewicz - 6 songs. This is still being written. 3 Songs have now been completed. We are making progress though our focus has been the Jael album. 4 Tanzen re-release of Piece by Peace album. An import has been licensed by us and re-released from Italy a few weeks ago, our domestic version will have some surprises and be slightly different but is being delayed while the import is hot in all markets. 5. Release of Legion's boxed set. 3 albums. with extra demos. Pre-orders will be available once the web is up again. 6. Jael's Boxed set - For the Record - 5 Discs. The target for release is post Where’s Peter. 7. For next year (2020) there will be a new Danter release. Possibly 2. The one for sure will probably not be the continuance of the trilogy but if there are two, another element of that will be out. The reason for the constant rethinking of this project has everything to do with the re-emergence of Teaze. So much is happening there that it’s almost a full-time job keeping up events as they unfold. Live events. 1. Jael & Band will be doing a fundraiser for Haiti near Valentine’s Day 2. Teaze will reunite in Japan. This has gotten very complex. New offshoot projects, sponsors, and the need to build anticipation with international co-operation has pushed the actual projections for the peak event into the fall of 2019. In the meantime, there is a myriad of small events happening and we have a book to get out… 4. Jael will do a missions tour to Africa, India & Thailand. Africa keeps expanding to include new countries. We started at 2 and may end up with 6 on the continent as well as 2 in Asia. This has been pushed back due to the delay in finishing the new album and arrangements have to all be rescheduled. Difficult when we are looking to coordinate with a potential 8 countries. 5. The grassroots West Coast tour has been canceled. Books. 1. We are working on a Biography of Brian's story. This is now a high priority to complete. The target for 1st draft completion is now mid March. 2. Jael will release a number of his Children's Picture Books and has 2 non-fiction, a novel and a poetry gift book in the works. Work on promoting those already out has to get better so please help spread the word. Look for Eight Keys to Lasting Success or for Dynamite the Dinosaur (The book…there is also a CD) if you want to check out what’s already out. Demand is growing and the websites will be out soon after the music ones are finished. The next book out is expected by the time you get the next newsletter. This is one thing progressing according to schedule. 3. Rachel Starr Thomson of Lamenting Vinyl is well established as an author and speaker. She has begun work on a new Christian Fantasy series (her 4th) and has finished the first book of the set. It's called Seeds. More about her and her work here. http://rachelstarrthomson.com/ Recently we were asked about Rachel’s latest book and when we started talking about Seeds, they seemed confused. They meant her latest non-fiction work which is called, Fearless (Free in Christ in an Age of Anxiety). Co-authored with her two ministry partners, It’s well worth checking out. As you can see, we have our work cut out for us. In the meantime, we have to find time to eat and sleep, and the means to be able to do so. If this inspires you, go to Patreon and pledge. Check back often, we'll be updating regularly. We will reward you handsomely for being a more significant part of the team that will make this happen. We will be launching 2 more crowdfunding projects on other sites if you’d rather pledge a one-time gift to make something specific happen. Details are coming in the next newsletter. Love you all. https://www.patreon.com/jael Our Philosophy and How We Are Creating Value for You Our goal is to give away all digital products we create and sell the stuff that's physical merchandise. To do this we need support. The older stuff that is under a contract, of course, we won't be able to make the same offer but starting with a few of my (Jael) older albums and the new projects, the digital copies of music will intentionally be given under a new license and they will be free. My idea is that the music comes to me as a gift from God and you should pay more attention than money. I give it because people tell me that the joy, the encouragement, the praise, the lessons, the parables, the calls to action found in it have helped them in some way. It's a theme of my life. It's called ministry and I have been dubbed a parable singer by some who know me well. It's not all religious but it is all intended to honor the Creator God I serve. So thank Him if you like it. For subscribers, I send links to things you might have missed in other places. For this newsletter, Here's Where's Peter in action. Copy and paste into your browser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vrm3pbYcM Most of the product that is on N1M, you can buy on I-tunes or similar sites and once we get our own sites back up and running I'll be announcing the grand opening in this newsletter. Please consider supporting our mission on Patreon. Here's the link again. https://www.patreon.com/jael