For Every Story Untold has its first show since February this Monday, December 19th, at Mercury Lounge in New York City. More information and
tickets are available here.
We also have a newly mixed studio version of "Deepest Cracks" up here that I personally am rather excited about: Deepest Cracks by foreverystoryuntold
In other news, my solo album, It's Always the Quiet One, is in its very final stages - mastering and liner notes. While it will be complete this month,
the release date will be early next year. It's been a long time coming. I wrote all the songs, recorded, arranged, programmed, mixed, and played all the
instruments myself. It is pretty much exactly what I set out to do from the beginning, what I started babbling about six years ago, but was only truly able to accomplish
this year. I am excited to share it with the world, and I hope you will find it to be worth the wait. :) I am already looking forward to making another one.
September 15, 2011
My album is very close to being finished. So close that the cover art is now being worked on by an actual artist and
is no longer only something I am wistfully picturing in my head. I just have to finish up with the production of a couple more
songs, record one more, tweak the mixes, and then send it to mastering. Ay!
During Hurricane Irene a few weeks back, I made my first ever YouTube performance recording. It's
a cover of "Long Black Veil" in which I do some very rudimentary banjo playing.
Yeah, that's my bedroom/recording studio (the studio things are on the other side of the room). That is the
natural, undisturbed habitat of Lauren Edman.
July 11, 2011
A couple weeks ago I posted another song that will be on my upcoming album.
The song is called "Silent" and it is on my Facebook page.
By the way, you do not need to be a Facebook member in order to listen to the songs I've been posting.
They're open for anyone to listen to. I've just been posting them there so as to not suck up bandwidth here. By the way, in "Silent" you will
find me playing clarinet.
So, after doing a lot more work and thinking, I have some more vague specifics on the nature of this thing.
For a long time, I've been going a little nutty trying to come up with some sort of unifying "sound" to make my album sound more like an
album the way albums tend to do, you know, being in a genre and all, but the fact is the idea of sticking to one genre for a whole
album makes me want to die of boredom. I don't mind when other people do that, and in fact I find some of
those people highly enjoyable to listen to, but it doesn't work for the music I write. What this has come to mean is
that, as opposed to making a bunch of songs all in the same genre, the album ties together more thematically
than sonically. It'll be pretty clear when listening to it.... I think.
For the release date, I've decided on October now because the music ain't all that summery. As I get closer to the time with
getting the mastering done, artwork, and the actual manufacturing and pressing of the disc (which will include liner notes and song lyrics,
'cause I like that in a CD), I can be more specific about the date.
For those of you who know me from For Every Story Untold, don't worry - we have been on a little bit of a hiatus due to
personal developments, but that's still very much in the works also. We're hoping to get more shows going within the next few months as well as the band album.
May 6, 2011
I've been hard at work on my album, and as proof
I offer you one of the songs that will be on it, "Slate." It is now posted on
my Facebook page.
I am aiming for a late summer/early fall release for the album. It will have at least ten tracks
on it. The most recent song I've started production work on is "She's Not Here,"
which I wrote maybe three years ago while living in my very tiniest bedroom.
Yesterday I spent the night laying down some piano, guitar, banjo, and glockenspiel
parts to see how I want it all to go together. This song will have some clarinet,
too, but I haven't yet had the nerve to face my forlorn, neglected clarinet.
I'll get that done in the next few days.
I can offer some details about the overall production of the album. Some songs
will have mostly electronic production. The first track, called "Wasting," is all
electronica. Others have only acoustic instruments, such as the aforementioned
"She's Not Here" and also "This Is It." Others, like "Slate," will have a mix of
both. So yeah, it's going to be an eclectic album, but 100% Lauren Edman. (With the
possible exception of someone else playing some lap steel for me. TBD.)
February 15, 2011
The last few
months have been really busy. I performed with For Every Story
Untold three times in New York City, and now we're working on a
full album. The Hideout EP is still available on iTunes, eMusic,
Amazon, and probably anywhere else you like getting music files
from. I'll be working on my own album at the same time as the band
one, and hopefully both will be done this year. Exciting and new!
Here's a video from our show on February 5. This
is a new song called "Deepest Cracks," which Brian and I did as an
encore.
December 4, 2010
For Every Story
Untold is headlining at The Mercury Lounge in New York City on
December 5! Come see us bring our songs to the stage for the first
time.
Sun 12/05 @ Mercury Lounge
217 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002
We've got a couple other NYC dates coming up in January and
February.
October 17, 2010
Now that there is
actually some news regarding Lauren Edman, the news page has been
reinstated.
To bring everyone up to date, here is
what is currently happening as well as what has happened recently:
I became the singer of a band called For Every Story Untold.
We released our debut EP onto the internet in August. I have some
clips up on my Discography page. Links to buy the EP, or to become
our friend on your social network of choice, are on the band's
website.
We're gearing up to play a show in New
York City in the coming months. That will also be posted on the
band site, but I'll probably mention it here too.
People who've been following me since the days of Sleepthief's The
Dawnseeker are aware that, for a few years there, every
so often I would make updates on my previous news page about some
mysterious solo album that would be coming out at some mysterious
time. I'm still working on that, the actual news portion of this
being that I've finally reached a point where I am creating things
that still sound good to me 24 hours later. That being the case,
I'll be posting stuff of my own up here relatively soon. I plan on
finishing a full-length solo album in 2011.
