Ryan Graves

As of today, there are 75 days until CD release, and 93 days until the concert.  With each day that passes I get more and more excited and lose more and more sleep!

Killer photo shoot yesterday!  I had a blast.  Mark Kulp is very professional and a longtime friend and he took some great shots.  I even sat in a puddle for one of them.  Fun…and just a little wet.  One shot in particular is exactly what I was seeking for the CD cover.  I had an original concept and this went well […]

Not only did we get the venue booked, we now have the studio booked as well!  We’ll be using SophiaHat Studio in Seattle.  Chris Spencer is an accomplished and competent producer with an airtight recording studio and great equipment.  We’re extremely stoked, as you can expect. Tomorrow I have a photo shoot scheduled for the new album […]

We booked a venue!  We’ll be holding the concert at Northlake Christian Church in Bothell in June.  We’re truly excited.  We’re working on concert posters and all of that good stuff.  And I am pretty sure we found the studio we’re going to use; Paul is going to investigate it a bit more but things […]

We are inches away from booking both a studio to record the CD, as well as a venue for the actual CD Release Concert.  We will shortly be uploading a promo video for the concert that’s sure to knock your socks off.  I can’t really put into words just how excited I am for the lighting and […]

Please keep prayers going up for a great venue and a great recording studio.  Currently scouting out locations for both.  Thanks!

Paul and I had a tremendous production meeting this past week, scheduling backwards from our target dates.  Our target dates are now May 18th (my 37th birthday) for a CD Release date, and June 5th for a CD release concert date.  We are both tremendously excited.  We’re going to be refining a few of the […]

ALMOST AT LIVE REHEARSAL PHASE, THEN HI-HO, HI-HO, IT’S TO THE STUDIO WE GO!!!  We are making tremendous progress on this CD project.  I’ve been pretty determined to get this done ASAP, and Paul is doing a fantastic job in providing everything needed to get us there.  We’ve got 15 incredible songs: an eclectic combination […]

This CD is going to rock.  We’re currently working on a song called “Scarlet”, aptly titled after the scarlet letter and the condemnation we can feel brought on by our shame, whether projected by others or self-inflicted by ourselves.  It’s a fast-paced track loaded to the gills with passion and sentiment.  The end of the […]

We’re making tremendous progress!  We’ve now got 15 songs on the album, and they’re all originals.  Paul and I have been working feverishly lately on a number of different tunes, especially “Whisper”, my tune for the fallen heroes and victims of 9/11.  It incorporates an original stirring score by mutual friend Christine Ayala, coupled with […]