All people who ever worked with us or working right now are in the process of getting higher musical education.

Our work on the first album took a lot of time and mental and physical strength and all money we had. If you only knew how we recorded it! In old Soviet Union halls, looking for any opportunity to record a good grand piano, percussion, vibraphone and all other instruments. Travelling from St. Petersburg to Moscow and back, recording vocals at home late at night with neighbors willing to kill us. Mixing and mastering it at the last night before the release and folding copies of album before the release concert. We never want to repeat that and suggest you by all means avoid situations like this!

So, In April'12 we have released our debut album, all by ourselves, no funding apart from money we were able to save with Gleb, no label, no media support, nothing — and it took almost a year for us to be noticed outside the country. The big breakthrough for us was when in January'13, we simultaneously got to several TOPs of best albums of 2012 (which was totally unexpected!), but here the biggest gift of fortune was Progarchives.com. And so the giant system started to work, and now we are still unknown by anyone but the small circle of prog-rock lovers, but eternally thankful to people for sharing our album on their blogs, sites and all their support! The album is being played on various radios in something about 10 countries of the world (still, 900 likes on Facebook, haha).

During the last year we've been working on a material for the second album and finally decided that we are ready to record everything. And as a sign from the above, we suddenly received a message from Marcel Van Limbeek — wonderful sound engineer from the UK who has been working with Tori Amos for the past 20 years and made all her albums. He said that he really liked the first album and is interested to work with us on our second one and suggested that we go to London to record a really outstanding instrument and use the best mics for it and for vocal recording.

So what we have now is the most exciting chance in our lives, a real opportunity to create something beautiful, but no means for that =\

It will take a lot of money to record all the instruments (although we are planning to record only vocals and grand piano in London, and all the rest will be recorded in Russia), mix, master everything and then print at least 500 copies of the album.

So we decided that it is time to be brave and start the Kickstarter campaign. It took us almost two months to make this happen — because Kickstarter is closed for everyone outside the UK and USA, but Marcel happened to be so extremely kind that he registered an account for us and now we can start. This is frightening, but what if it works! No other band from Russia has done anything like that before, so this is a huge experiment.

All in all, we need approximately £6000, and this includes recordings in London, Russian recordings, session musicians fees, printing, mixing and mastering of the album. And sadly, this is the minimal sum. Kickstarter campaign is aimed to collect only £2000 (+KS commissions and taxes) because we realize that the more we ask for — the less chances we have to get anything, because Kickstarter is “all or nothing”. And more than anything else in the world we want to achieve this goal and go to London.

So we thought of rewards that we may possibly offer for ones who'd like to help us. something that we are sure will be beautiful, and we promise we'll do our best.

To help us and see the list of rewards, you may return to Kickstarter.

To listen/download our first album, you may visit Bandcamp.

If you have any questions, feel free to message me directly, hello@iamthemorning.com

Lots of love,
Marjana