The End and Explanation of our Journey

 These last few months have been a time of serious incubation.  We have been working on our album, and have come across many... shall we say pleasantly difficult surprises along the road.  Ramona The Band suffers from having too many songs to choose from.  Every time we get around to saying, 'we should just pick the songs, finish them, and release the album' we start picking the songs.  Then we start finding several songs in "the vault" that we had completely forgotten about.  We wrote, and recorded them on the spot, and then saved a copy somewhere strange, and subsequently we would never have listened to them since recording them.  So then we get all excited about this great new material, and so of course it should be on the album.  But often our songs start out as a scratch track with a very skeletal instrumental track of sometimes nothing more than a drum beat, and perhaps a base line and a few piano notes here and there.  That is what I will write words to, and then melodies, harmonies, etc. and record on.  So when we find these hidden gems, it is truly only a potential diamond in the rough; and A LOT of work then has to go into flushing out the basics of what we have into a nice, plump, full-fledged song.  Well, that process alone on a song or two can suck us in for a months at a time.  And also, during that time, we may just write and record a few more gems that will creep up to the surface in another six months.  So it's quite the lovely, but crazy-creative cycle that we exist in. 
      

     Thus, I hope that you can understand why it has taken us a good while to get this album "finished".  But because of all of the wonderful time that we have had, every one of the 14 tracks that we have chosen are the true cream of the crop.  In a really wonderful way, they each remind me of some monumental moment in our 2 and a half years as a band, and also, in my rather wild journey through life.  We have starved for these tracks, we have lost blood for these tracks, lost sleep, money, freedom, tears...  But we have also gained so much by committing ourselves fearlessly in the pursuit of creative truth to humanity. 
    

      Therefore, and am very excited to see how my creative truth resonates with those that it comes in contact with.  Because for me, in all of the art forms that I have studied, the ideal goal is to translate the truth of a character, feeling, or idea, to everyone that comes in contact with it.   I can't claim to know yet how my shot at musical truth will go over yet.  But I look forward to finding out, regardless of the outcome.  So thanks to all of you that have listened, seen, and even shared with us.  Because, at risk of sounding cliche, without everyone of you guys that are reading this right now, and even a good number that aren't; absolutely none of this would be possible.
 
My warmest, and happiest regards,
 
-Dion Vox