Behind the Scenes: Update & The Recording Sessions

Hey Friends,
We've been a bit radio silent of late, accomplishing no shortage of behind the scenes work related to our numerous upcoming releases. We haven't posted here as much as we would like to, so here's the first step toward getting back on track!

Over the Last Two Weeks:
We've been having weekly recordings with the Preston Young (Colin on Don't Mind Cruxmont), daily edits & sound design on Cruxmont, casting 10+ roles and wrapping up transcriptions on the next episode of Dark Dice, translating, casting, and recording our next miniseries for The White Vault, and writing/prepping for our new show in October...

While we can't talk about too many of the above secrets just yet, we'd like to share a bit about the upcoming livestream recordings we're doing on the 12th and 22nd - Twitch.tv/foolandscholar/schedule

To understand what these recordings mean to me personally, we'll briefly jump back in time...  In short, I learned how to play accordion in high school to jam with the songs from video games that I loved. One series in particular pushed me to make the jump from 'listener' to 'musician' and I spent years learning its music and eventually writing my own... Back to the present: Earlier this year we started working with one of the primary composers from that series (Sakimoto). My music instructor, friend, & mentor's comment on Facebook explains how exciting this is for us fairly well:

There are somewhat limited avenues to get mainstream recognition within music & podcasting (i.e. something your parents would say "oh, I've heard of that!") and I've personally had my sights on a Grammy since I started writing music. However, I've never had a chance at one and recognize that the music I enjoy isn't mainstream. Shifting into my life as a full time podcaster a decade later, the two goals no longer feel mutually exclusive. About two years ago Steven Melin, Brandon Boone, and I chatted about the possibility of submitting one of our podcasts' soundtracks for a Grammy "if we ever made one that we felt was strong enough."
It was kind of a joke at first. We named our chat group "Super Composer Friends" and the image has been an MS Paint Grammy with our names on it. But joking aside, we spent the next two years making music that we felt just might make the cut - focusing on Dark Dice, as it's the podcast we make that's the most narrative.
I.E. A huge soundtrack underpinning every scene of the found footage with The White Vault would be generally distracting :p

The sum of our efforts has been compiled into an album that we intend to release next month - SEASON OF THE ALLSHADOW. It's a body of work that we consider to be among the best in the medium, and, importantly, music worthy of submitting. Even if we get to the "Nomination" phase it will represent a huge victory for us as creatives, and also as a podcasting company. Awards don't ultimately change day-to-day life can shift outside perspectives of your work's validity and create opportunities. Things like working with Andoh or Goldblum, making a "top 10 on Spotify" list, or having a Wikipedia page made of your show are thing that are only possible because of the numerous intangible victories you've helped us earn along the way. And win or lose, we're proud of reaching this point in our respective creative careers.

So if you join us on the 12th or 22nd, that's when we're recording the final track for this album... and also a tracks for music we'll need over the next few years for the sake of optimizing our time. 

https://carelessjuja.bandcamp.com/album/season-of-the-allshadow

We're recording four songs - three written by Sakimoto (the Japanese composer), one cowritten by myself & Steven Melin. You can hear the "PS1 Edition" versions of the songs on our album's pre-launch bandcamp page, so you can hum along.
Thank you again for your continued support in making our dreams possible!

-Travis