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| Posted by: barton |
9/22/2007 |
The past couple of weeks have been an absolute whirlwind of activity
for me. It is an irony that in the release of Don’t Stop
it feels to me as if more obstacles have come up in its release than
any other. I am keenly aware that I was perhaps the greatest obstacle
and I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the amazing and supportive
team of collaborators & music industry people who have worked
tirelessly to help move this project forward to its ultimate release to
you, the world-at-large. I always want everything to be so perfect, and
this song has been a great lesson in letting go (a lesson I am
constantly learning). I am so lucky to work with such talented people -
the remix artists on this release are all so different and each has
something unique to say in their interpretation of Don’t Stop.
Jaimy, Josh Harris, and Manny Ward - thank you for working with me.
We shot our video in two days and Charlie did an amazing job both
directing and editing the video over a single weekend. Our dear friend
Kurt assisted at the shoot and it was really a wonderful experience, as
we have become a family of sorts. I am deeply grateful for the talent
and artistry that the people who have helped me to project an image I
feel represents the music we are expressing: Emily Kern, Gino Norris,
and Melinda Cazarez. I knew something shifted when, at the end of the
second day of shooting, both Charlie and Kurt congratulated me on my
performance. The experience was an analog to something I felt years ago
in my vocal recording process where I could feel the feeling of
my words going onto the recording medium. I experienced that same feeling in
the performance for this video.
It was real, natural, unrehearsed...just a natural expression of what
the song feels like inside of me. I venture to say that
it means more to me than anything to create something that has
both feeling and meaning, and with this release, I can feel that I have
crossed over to a new place in my artistic expression.
More than anything, I am just filled with an intense sense of
gratitude for a life where I get to do so many different things, music
and performance among them. As self-produced artists who do this entire
thing on our own, I feel great pride in our work, what we are
representing, and look forward to what is to come.
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