Drake OranwoodI want to thank everyone who has helped us support the JCC Therapeutic Nursery through this project. This preschool provides early intervention to bright children with special needs, including our son. All proceeds from the album are being donated to the Nursery.
This track from the album was inspired by our experiences coming to terms with parenthood playing out differently than we had expected it to. If this piece touches you, I invite you to share it.
As we get closer to our release date (June 20), I have been reminded by a few people that I should share about our intention around selling this album. This is a donation project (and has been since its inception). I want to sell this album, because I believe that art has value, and people appreciate that value more fully when they are asked to pay for it. But I was never sure how much money there was to be had in this niche, or indeed in recorded music in general (research update: not a lot). So instead of worrying about any money we might make, we chose to treat this as a fundraiser for a worthy cause. And for us, the cause was an easy choice, and one that ties in thematically with the album itself, and the title.
Drake Oranwood