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 hanging out with us. We appreciate the time you spend listening and adding us to your playlists and recommending us to your friends. It means a lot. The winter festival (MarchMusic) is now in the works for 2020. Under the Tent is also going to take a year off. I have a daughter getting married the weekend we were planning the festival and since I know what it takes to do a world-class job, I am not going to run a festival within 60 days of that event either. The Teaze reunion has been renamed Teaze Resurrection. 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@link. Otherwise, you can get them online at Eventbrite. It's going to be held over for a second night from the look of things. Also, there are tentative plans to play Harpo's in Detroit shortly thereafter. Anyone want a show in Toronto or Montreal? Give us a call or drop us an email. Jael came across some very old tapes of session outtakes and concerts in a vault. Things we thought were long gone are being evaluated. Some of it should have stayed lost. Lol. Jay's very first cassette of Direct Current Live was circulated at college and has some very bad distortion on parts of the tape but it contains 18 rather good songs. It's a live, over the air from the audience recording fro 75-76 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. A new rap release is coming this month under a new moniker. Watch for KtdaG. We'll be uploading as soon as it's available. The albums is done. Our web site is the first priority. The Status of the Projects That Are Up Next. Audio recordings: 1. Playing for an Audience of One - Jael. We are rethinking this release. We kept adding tracks and versions to make sure we had great stuff and now we might have enough material for a Volume 2 as well. This will hopefully be launched by the next newsletter but we'll only do one at a time. I know I said you'd be able to pre-order it last newsletter but we are still having some website issues. We are still on track with the production schedule. The new release date is late March. 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 videos 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 but we're further along than we were last newsletter. 4 Songs have now been completed. John has more time now that the guitar tracks for the new Jael album have been completed. 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. 8. New Maxwell AU, Ian MacGregor Smith, Jamie Dech and Bill Compeau albums are expected as well. They'll be rolled pout ove the next few months. Live events. 1. 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… 2. 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. 3. The grassroots West Coast tour has been canceled. Jael is currently booking solo gigs. The Jael Band is available as is Danter, still rehearsing even with Teaze together. 4. Maxwell AU is finishing a new album. 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. It is called Crocodile Tears and has hit a small delay. It will be available at Amazon by next week. Find it by using Jael's pen name, Andrew Cody. 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. link 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. 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. 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. The Africa Missions tour is partially enabled by pledges on this site and others. I need help getting Patreon started. Please consider supporting our mission on Patreon. Here's the link again.https://www.patreon.com/jael