Thanks to everyone for your continued support and downloads of our albums!  If you’ve enjoyed “Muse Tree”, “Here.”, and “Alexandria, Falling”, help us by making a small contribution towards our next project: “Secrets and Stains”.

The “Secrets and Stains” recording is the next upcoming release and we need your help to get it done.  We are currently raising $10,000 for the recording, production/artwork, publishing, and distribution of our next work.

With your contribution of any amount, you will receive a web link and listing on our donation wall, mention in the liner notes, and *one free copy* of the finished physical CD + MP3s for every $15.00 you donate.  Each donation will also receive a free download of each of the other seven (7) albums, with download links sent to the same PayPal address.  Donations above $100.00 will also be receiving 0.2% of all profits from sales of the album — iTunes, Rhapsody and online sales, offline and concert sales, and physical distribution sales — for the lifetime of it’s distribution.  Every $100.00 donation multiplies returns up to $10,000 (e.g., $200.00 is 0.4%, $500.00 is 1%, and so forth).  That means for contributions of this size, every 100,000 album sales (physical, concert sales or digital) returns your donation over 10 times.

Why is Julean and the band taking this approach?

Over the last year, our albums have received over 200,000 downloads combined.  But only a tiny portion of these have been purchased…the rest were found through torrents and other viral portals.  We love this (Julean specifically), but would love your continued support.  In order to continue touring, recording, and making great music we need the capital to survive!

But instead of becoming a band of salespeople and “pushers”, we like it best when our listeners enjoy what they want and contribute what they feel the music is worth to them.

After some thought, we decided that we rather enjoy it that way.  There really was never a price to enjoying what Julean does…it is what it is.  Julean Rai writes and performs just for the sake of what he does (and that’s no exaggeration…he really is “that way”).  But we decided it was best to simply “go with the flow” and allow what was already happening, to happen.  In return, we’d just hope that fans who are enjoying the music want to help us make more.  We are also independent, so capital is a big issue when it comes to recording, travel, and distribution.  So we have decided to take this approach.  Hopefully, with the help of those who enjoy what Julean and the Rai does, we can move things forward with a new, polished, studio recording and tour.

“Secrets and Stains” is a 13-track, full-band recording project, and a darker, more powerful rock-oriented installment in the CHRONOLOGY (Vol. III).  The track listing for “Secrets and Stains” is as follows:

01. Renee
02. A Little Espanol
03. Secrets and Stains
04. Redefine the Answers
05. Counterpart
06. The Only Way
07. Plate Glass Window
08. You Rang Us
09. Trouble Yourself
10. Face the Roses
11. Tara Lee
12.Today
13.The Windfall

The “Secrets and Stains” recording is preceded by “Here.” (Vol. II, 2008) and “Muse Tree (Vol. I, 2007), and followed by “Leaving Gomorrah” (Vol. IV) and “Effortless” (Vol. V), as well as four more full-length albums of unrecorded material.

In total, Julean Rai has seven (7) unrecorded albums (around 76 songs) following the recording of the last three.  Some of these songs have been recorded as demos, performed live, or used elsewhere as promotional material.  To contribute to this project or other projects (or to the band as a whole), check out our donation and support page to get started: http://www.theraiband.com/donate-support/

“Secrets and Stains” demo single on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2XmVvfY58

Also, make sure you’ve taken advantage of all the (current) albums and recordings available for free download:

“Live at the Lizard King” (First Set Only): http://ow.ly/papo
“Muse Tree” (LP)(2007): http://ow.ly/hjx0

As an independent band, there is no record company to cover these costs for us, and over 200,000 people have downloaded the previous three releases for free!  If you enjoy what we create, help us move to the next level by making a contribution of any size towards the next project!

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