Chapter 14: Estelle sings a Rainbow

It's Wednesday and all the news and pics for the Sound of You Tour are on Estelle's web pages so here are links to her wonderful South African updates.
http://estellekokot.com
#thesoundofyou

'Congratulations Estelle! It seems you are having a fantastic time as the audience and reviews attest 
We look forward to joining you very soon to record the Sound of You album'

By the way dear reader, have you pledged yet?




Chapter 13 : The Sound of You keeps humming ...

Estelle is still touring South Africa - it has been a fantastic couple of months!

She updates daily on her Facebook page

Chico and Jan are preparing for recording the songbook
and working extremely hard to make this happen

Read the story of The Sound of You - updated every Wednesday

We have a few weeks left on plegemusic. So if you haven't already now's your chance to get involved.

Thanks for your support!
Estelle, Jan and Chico

Chapter 12: The story of The Sound of You continues . . .

Afrikan Freedom Station - Estelle with Kwena, Herbie and Lebo
Hi everyone . . The story of The Sound of You continues  . . .


Estelle is still wowing audiences in South Africa with her fantastic shows. The reaction has been wonderful and Herbie Tsoaeli and Kevin Gibson have been backing her for most of the tour. 

She has also been doing solo voice and piano gigs and now a special one this week at the Orbit in Johannesburg.

Chico has been in the studio recording with his trio in Germany and sends a video postcard from there on YouTube.

Jan took her multimedia show to the National Portrait Gallery in London and continues preparing music and film for her next show at the weekend.

What busy springtime bees we are!

But of course our main thing is plotting and planning with PledgeMusic to get this songbook recorded!

And we shall … watch this space! Thanks for all your support - we couldn't do it without you!

Chapter 11: Back and forward to 'The Sound of You'


Jan writes . . .
and now back and forward to 'The Sound of You'
This is a songbook written with jazz great Chico Freeman and we are lucky enough to have Estelle Kokot singing and interperating the collection.
Estelle is currently touring South Africa with Herbie Tsoaeli and Kevin Gibson and we are hoping to join her soon to record the album

Being digital and musical pioneers we partnered with Pledge Music to crowd fund the album. It's been quite an adventure, one documented in the blog 'The Sound of You'

Hope you will follow and join us on our journey - Our first Blogbook was called 'The Gathering' and the 16 chapters tell the story of us meeting and getting the album ready. 
Book two, which is where we are now is 'The Alchemy' - turning our ideas into gold - The hardest part for any creative person . . The story continues

Chapter 10: The next Stage

Deadlines are good to get you to the next stage and The Sound of You has got there.

Our partnership with PledgeMusic has been going really well and we are extending the campaign to the end of May.

We are having a few, well deserved days off and will be back next week with more updates and news of the recording, gigs and pledgers' exclusive downloads etc.

As always thanks for your support - we couldn't have got this far without you - the best is yet to come!

The Sound of You