thejazzemu

Prop Auction //// And A Freebie Prize For One Lucky Patron

Dearest Patrons, I appreciate you so much. I've moved into a new studio! This is what it looks like. It's been a labour of love to establish and it is going to be a true haven for me as continue to make Heartfelt Musical Profferings for you. THANK YOU for your financial support on here, which is helping me cover the not insubstantial rent hike that comes with it. Most importantly it is giving me space to leave some things set up permanently, which is going to greatly increase my flow as I mak...

Live Screening Q&A xx

Dear Eggulate Angels,

I know I've been a long time away on here, with so much focus having to go on Kickstarter and making sure we fulfilled all our promises on there. It was quite the feat of Admin, which I will be the first to admit does not come as naturally to me as the Creation, so I'm very grateful for your tenacious support through the wintry tundras.

To those of you who support me on here and also donated on there, you are absolute treasures and I am so very grateful. We...

A trailer to tease you. And live-screening pre-sales!

A secondary post this week that is going out to all beloved Patrons and Kickstarter supporters - some early access nuggets. I love you all so dearly!

I am thrilled to let you know that the Ego Death TEASER TRAILER is here, and with that, early access to PRE-ORDER the finished piece, before we announce it officially to the public for pre-sale next week.

Both of these can be found on my website: 2024-11-15 13:44:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Ego Death Behind The Scenes

My dear Eggulates, it's been quite a while! I've been completely buried in pre-production and shooting of this big old massive video, and have barely had time to come up for air.

But I wanted to reward you, and thank you, for your ongoing support, with some extremely in depth behind the scenes of what we've been doing. It's chock full of SPOILERS so viewers beware!

2024-11-12 14:57:32 +0000 UTC View Post

BIG PROJECT INCOMING!

My dearest Ovulates, we’re making a thrilling announcement publicly tomorrow, but I wanted to share it with you all first as I treasure you all so dearly. Please behold our first ever Kickstarter, for what is going to be the most ambitious thing we’ve ever attempted creatively.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/egodeath/jazz-emu-ego-death-a-vis...

KNIGHTTIME; A.I. FURORE; VISUAL ALBUM

My invaluable Eggies. How are you all keeping? I'm in the throes of quite intense show preparations, but I wanted to send you all some love and updates. And also, to vaingloriously summarise my musings on an intriguing month so I don’t forget them.

KNIGHT TIME

This new live show has been at the forefront of my mind for quite some time, more than 6 months now, as we have been preparing it, doing it, fixing it, rinse and repeat. I’m honestly potently happy that ...

I have had a breakdown! *of This Is How I Go Down

Howdy Eggies. Trying something different (I tire of performing today!). Here, as you will discover if you wish to spend 30 mins with me, is an absolutely imperfect breakdown of one of my songs that I've thrown together this afternoon. But I hope that, mixed in with the chaos of my CPU malfunctioning and the levels of the screen record being so off at one point I had to save it with my phone mic, there are a few golden nugget glimpses at how I work and think about these songs as I'm writing th...

Money Behind The Scenes

And behold, here it is, the music video for Money. This was definitely the most highly-requested un-videographied song off the new album - and I believe rightly so, as it has some fun little visual tidbits that can't really come across in audio alone. I had always intended for it to be a full video, when I initially wrote the song for Piñata's Eurovision competition in May of last year.

Not to toot my own Electronic Wind Instrument, but actually wrote and produced this whole song in ...

A Humble Request For Videographical Input (And DISCORD link)

First up: I’m pinning the DISCORD INVITE LINK here, for new arrivals who seem to getting lost. Come and join us, new friends! https://discord.gg/jzKYUQUzkt

Second up, for those of you who missed the Discord announcement:

Hello @everyone - I’m in the last stages of assembling a mammoth new live show. Hunter has edited some ferociously good video content for it. But I need YOUR help.

I w...

Unreleased Contentical Extras

Well, here we are my precious Egglets. At the end of February, can you believe, and you are long overdue an electronic epistle!

For those of you who are just here for the EL;IFTSJBUMC! (Excessively Long; I Failed To Scrutinise, Just Bestow Upon Me Content!) - here are two extra giblets I’ve generated recently….

1. An unrecorded, unreleased episode of our BBC Radio Show (currently gracing the airwaves every Sunday at 7.30pm Miami time). Adrian and I threw a HUGE amount of ide...

Morsels of Forthcoming Elegance

Good morning, My Primest of Ovulates. Or indeed a good whatever segment of the day it might be in your geolocation. I was thinking of you all this morning. I'm feeling an extra special burst of corpusculent gratitude on a fine, sunny autumnal Miami day, that this is what I'm able to do with my life. So, you were on my mind, and I felt compelled to write to you with a delicate update, plus some amuse bouches of sorts.

Admittedly things have been a little quiet on the Emu online-publish...

SNEAKY UNRELEASED SONG & CORPORATE WAIVERS

**"EXCESSIVELY LONG AND TEDIOUS; SHAN'T READ; DEMAND INSTANT BONUS CONTENT GOODS"** Don't shout, Captain! Just scroll to the bottom of this post.

And for the rest of you...

Season's Greetings! (Autumn), and a felicitous Tuesday to all involved. I write this from Oslo Airport as I wend my way Europewards for a continental tour, in support of musical masters and all-round impressives TWRP. I'm really excited to watch these guys do their thing semi-nightly, and absorb all I can fr...

Talking To Myself (And Hints At Greater Things)

Hello dearest Egglets. Here I am again, Slithering into your Proverbials. As I read back the below missive to myself, it reads to me like a letter written by an 18th Century baron to his estranged friend abroad, which he sends from a remote castle in Eastern Europe somewhere, where he is staying at the year-long expense of his generous but increasingly regretful host, Baron Von Tresburgenshrift. I recommend you supping upon the words below with that flavour in mind.

I wanted to provide...

Early Glimpse Of A New Objet d'Art

Hello Preciouses. I wanted to show you this new video we've been working on since January, which is going live to the public tomorrow.

After making the Pilot last spring, we got a taste for more narrative-driven pieces videos - we're always looking for new things to do, and new ways to have fun with the channel. I have to be honest, we were holding out for some movement from that - ideally someone giving us some money to make something narrative and song-filled and fun. But since the P...

A Pan-Fried Live Nugget

**AND NEW SHOW TICKET PRE-SALE**

You're precious to me; like Fabergé Eggs.

So here is a shonky and fun little clip from our show on March 30 show at the Pleasure Garden. As usual, of course, there were technical difficulties (namely, one of the most Unusual audio engineers I have ever met [and that is perchance saying something], making a series of guffs). He boldly declared for the second time in a row that he was prepared to record crisp, clean audio to accompany the beautifu...

A New Song For Your Delectations

My dearest Eggies, here I am - after too long - once again sending you an electronic missive. It has certainly been the most intense few weeks of work I have ever encountered - which is surely a gratifying sign that the Jazz Emu Enterprise is tumbling ever forward in a bemusing and thrilling way.

TLDR: Here is tomorrow's new music video, early for you specialest of people. We love it. I hope you do too. Please add it to your playlists when it lands on streaming platforms tomorrow.
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Discount Code for NEW MERCH

Mes Chers Œufs,

After months of Work by myself and voluptuous chanteuse Venetia Sprinkles, we are finally ready to unveil some new merchandise - the store can be found here: https://jazz-emu.myshopify.com/collections/all

I’m here to provide you with a pre-order discount code of 20% (use the code LAUNCH20 at checkout), to say thank you for sticking with me through the thick and the thin and t...

The Real Me BTS

Hello everyone, I have been regarding so much love for the new song ‘n’ video on YouTube and the Discord, it’s truly so cockle-warming. So, I thought it would be nice to talk a bit about how we put the video together technically, since a few people were asking some detailed questions.

For those interested in the crunching of numbers, this video cost £1228 to make. That’s not taking into account Hunter and my own hours working on it (many and lots). It’s money that’s going ...

New Single Pre-Save & Bonus Video Snique Pique

Yes, my eggies. The time has come for a new Hit Single, and accompanying music video! Hunter and I have been working our tiny booties off, and it's going to be glorious when it releases, on 26th Feb (just weeks away). 

The song is called The Real Me, and can be pre-saved here: https://snd.click/rv8n

It's a thing of beauty, one of our finest works, in my humble opine.

Also, to entertain myself on a few cold...

New Treats In Order To Replete You

Hello my Sweetcakes of the Angels. I just wanted to update you on some Thrilling News. You might have seen some snique-piques on the Discord, but Hunter and I have been working our sweet little tushies off this week and have filmed not one but TWO pieces of exquisite High Budget Boy content.

The first is for a New and Unheard song. The story of this song is a roundabout one. I was in a negative hole at the end of last year. A little creatively exhausted, emotionally stifled, generally ...

Live Stream Round II! And Post-Annuated Musings

Into another whirl around the sun we planetarily whip, and here I am reflecting on the year gone by and the year to come.

It's been undoubtedly intense one for me, full of some of my biggest highs (Executing my first live show! Performing in the UK and the USA! Receiving some generously decadent reviews! Multiplying the Youtube following by over 10x!), and some of my crispiest lows (an intense and extended life-de-affirming seasonal depression). But here we are, pushing onwards and feel...

Live Show Clip! & Non-Competitive Competition

Well, here we are. Another month slipping through my Digital Fingers, and I thought it was about time I gave you all an update on where things are headed Jazz Emusically and otherwise...

Firstly, above is a clip of a medley of songs from the Live Solo Show, filmed in Edinburgh this August, in which I prove what a Good Guy I am. For context, we had 20 mins every night to set up the entire show after the show before us finished. For a show this technically complex, that is truly insane, ...

Jazz Emu With A Live Band!

It has been rightly noted that I posted this on the Discord server declaring it was laid out for my belovèd patrons, and forgetting to post it on Patreon itself… It’ll be going out to my mailing list and general release tomorrow, but here’s a taste of something very exciting:

Jazz Emu with a live band! This has long been a desire of mine, and on DEC 2ND I am finally seeing it to fruition. I have assembled a team of obscenely talented musicians as my supporting band - The Cosmique...

Inaugural Livestream!

Yes! The first time I shall ever live stream, exclusively for my Patrons. This coming Monday at 18:00 my time (UTC+1). Hope to see you there, my sweet chickies. 

The song/video of choice to be dismembered and discussed will be finalised in the Discord poll, so vote there if you haven't already. If we're lucky, we may also be joined by esteemed colleague Hunter Allen for a breakdown of some of the visuals.

I intend to do these live song-and-video breakdowns once a month (most...

Double-New-Video-Surprise

Some of you may recall that in 2019 a distant cousin of mine Archie Henderson released a series called the Best Selling Singles of Every Decade (back to 14,000 BC). It did some pretty serious numbers on Twitter, and subsequently on Adrian Gray's Youtube (with whom he co-created the series), and it really ignited both of them to pursue their comedic careers in earnest. If you missed it you can catch the original here, on Adrian's outstandingly prolific Youtube channel... 2022-09-09 22:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post

A Wandering Deliberation On My Future

I wanted to communicate my plans to you as concisely as possible, and this pseudo-perpetual monologue emerged.

**TWELIDNSICIV* (This Was Excessively Long I Did Not Succeed In Consuming It Visually)  [also known as *TLDR*/Too Long Didn't Read]:

- More live shows on the way! A UK/International tour with this show is currently being restricted by the finances of it all (I'm not Globally Famous enough to fill rooms yet, in order to make it financially viable. This must be recti...

NEW ALBUM SHNEEKY PEEKY

Yes, if you are voracious at consuming your emails, you will have already noted that a Stone-Cold, Flaming-Hot new Emu album is on its way to your Handsome Earholes. The due date is in a month's time, on 1st September 2022. 

Please pre-save it here so I can play the Algo by my own Rhythm: https://snd.click/dnff

And as you are my nearest and dearest, I wanted to share with you a peek at one of the ...

Jazz Emu Live In NYC (Early Access)

Nearest and dearest, I've just sent out an email missive to celebrate hitting the 100,000 subscriber mark on Youtube. I hadn't quite processed what a milestone it would feel, but my origins started humbly on Youtube (I sat at just over 1,000 subscribers for more than two years...) and this is a thrilling and cockle-warming upgrade.

Within said email, I leave a breadcrumb trail to this video. For anyone who missed the Live Show (so far...), I hope you enjoy watching how much I enjoy sin...

Deepest Patronic Desires

I would like to please you, for it is within my nature! And I adore feedback. What would you like to see most from my Patreon over the next year? What would spark the most joy within you? What most thoroughly tickles your pickle of the the material I already put on here?

I would adore to find the perfect overlap of things that are fun for both myself and yourselves. Let's unlock that precise slice of Venn Diagram together.

Please comment below with your desires for ideas I may n...

Pilot Artwork and some more BTS

I wanted to share with you some of the art design from the Pilot, just to show you how much effort and attention to detail went into the world-building by everyone on the team. The album covers were all put together by yours truly ('tis I), frantically the night before the shoot. I was firmly instructed that no image could be under copyright so they are all composited from free stock images I pilfered from various places. I love stock libraries; for the bizarre variety you can find on them, a...