I am venturing into crowdfunding and pre-selling for the first time for my 7th album "The Witness".
Recording is already well under way. I need financial help for the artwork, production and promotion costs, and am already 70% of the way towards my goal. The donations and accompanying messages remind me of the importance of this album.
The Collins English dictionary defines a concept album as "an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story."
The theme here is pedophilia/abuse. The songs link to form a story of actual events I experienced. My aim is to portray the complexities of my experience with a combination of brutal honesty and sensitivity.
It is a big deal to ask musicians to be involved in a project as intimate and confronting as this one. I am thrilled with my core band: Ali Penney (keys), Ben Hoare (guitars) and Matt Nightingale (bass guitars).
Thank you so much for helping me release this deeply personal, and potentially controversial, album.
DJ
With “V8 capacity” vocals and "hypnotic" blues-harp playing, Dorothy-Jane performs as a duo, trio and with her smokin’ hot band.
Dorothy-Jane with Richard Steele
The Dorothy-Jane Band 'Deja vu' at The Manly Fig
The Dorothy-Jane Band 'Burning The Blues' at The Manly Fig
