🎼How About We Share Around Music Everyday?!?

Hey,

I hope you’re doing well! Can’t believe we’re already in December…! Every time I start a new folder in my Google Drive for a new month for my Club Missives, I kinda have those flashes, realizing precisely where I am in time, but for this one, December, the feeling has increased by a thousand. This is unbelievable…! Month number 12 of 12, the last few days of the year 2023! I’m honestly not that disappointed since this year has been nothing short in terms of intensity and extremes! Maybe that’s why I also need 12 cups of coffee to go through my days now…! 

It’s already 6pm on Saturday afternoon. I’ve been getting ready to leave for Tokyo for the final shipping operation of the year...! It’s been quite a crazy week here at the HQ, watching everyone run around, all making sure every package is perfectly wrapped, in the right bag, and ready to leave with the right postman or postwoman (Alex, Isabel or myself) and of course, on time...! The funny and strange thing though, is that, as you received this message, I’m about to land back in Montreal after spending 28 hours on the plane on a 60-hour window door to door! 

The best part is that you guys will receive your precious packages on time for the holidays, and The Long Shadows will all be at Alex’s home in Virginia to work on new music for what’s left of the year, something we’ve been dreaming of for so long!!! 

So, since I’ve been spending the entire week working on organizing the shipping party for Isabel, Alex and myself, which is nothing to truly get excited about, I thought it would be cool for me to act cool, and join the trendy movement around the 2023 advent calendar party, but rather than being static and expensive, I decided for it to be free – of course – but also interactive, and inspiring as I’ll be doing daily videos for you in The Club App!

ADVENT CALENDAR IDEA

The Details

As you now know, (unless you just joined the Club, in which case I’m inviting you to take a look at my previous missives), I really like to share a song, an album, or an artist that I’ve been listening to while I was writing my weekly message to you. And I take this very seriously, as sometimes, it can take more time for me to choose the song or the artist, than to actually write down my missive. We don’t take music and art lightly here, and I really like to let you know what’s playing while I communicate with you, as in my mind, it kind of adds a lot of important emotions and a direction to those missives.

So, as I was wondering what I should be sharing with you all this week – and it was a bit of a struggle – a friend of mine shared the idea that it could be cool to create an advent calendar with every song I shared with you on a weekly basis throughout the entire year! I immediately thought “Yeah! This is amazing!” Then, more ideas came in and this thing got me really excited! 

My final idea would be this: I’ll be doing a short video daily, probably the first thing I’ll do in the morning following my third cup of coffee, where I’ll share about a song, an album, or an artist that I previously shared with you throughout the year, and tell you a little more about why I decided to put this on and what this means to me! Since most of you are always commenting on the music I’m sharing, I’m expecting a lot of comments on your end and for those short videos to become some kind of a daily gathering around music! 

I really want this to be something gathering as we’re heading toward what will be, I’m completely convinced of this, the most amazing and exciting year of Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows’ entire existence, and hoping it will be the same on your end and for your loved ones! 

Here’s what the daily video calendar will be around. I even made a playlist with all the songs, and you can already listen to it here.

DECEMBER

JANUARY 

Make sure you keep The Club Mobile App close to your thumbs! We’ll have such a great December daily musical adventure! If you’re new to The Club, here’s how to get the app:
 

It is compatible with both iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play)

   

 

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The email address is the one to which I send you my weekly missives.
Your temporary password is Club2023. 
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See you tomorrow! Let’s be great to one another! 

Your Host and Friend, 
Jeff 

PS: I was listening to my favorite 2023 album while writing this Club Missive! It’s called “Darling the Dawn” by All Hands_Make Light!