Welcome to a musical autobiography recorded in science-fiction folk, casiocore country, stuff that rocks and stuff that goes meta when you least expect it. Elaine DiMasi's trademarks are crafty lyrics, layered vocals, and keys - beyond this, all bets are off. Some songs remind listeners of Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Beth Orton, or "The Roches singing weightless in space". Others recall Yo La Tengo, "LA-era X", The Magnetic Fields, or the Fiery Furnaces. Or are greeted with: "I would never have expected that from - anyone!" This self-produced album was a year in the making. Elaine is an avid amateur songwriter and participated in February Album Writing Month, a challenge to write 14 songs during the 28 days of february. Showcased as demos to an online community of hundreds of songwriters in 2008, the songs were so well received and their story so cohesive that Elaine re-recorded and mastered them for this printing in February 2009. She can't wait to share them with you and knows there will be more to come! Since childhood Elaine taped made-up songs and singalong tv shows with her younger brother, and by high school identified as a composer. Singing in choirs and playing oboe in wind ensembles through college, Elaine wrote woodwind quintets, choral arrangements and piano pieces. During grad school in Ann Arbor Michigan while studying for a PhD in physics, Elaine became a fan of the a cappella vocal bands and live bluegrass music - not to mention the rest of the music scene, with a music label right in town. (Meanwhile, Elaine's brother Joseph DiMasi founded the a cappella vocal band Face, who are based in Colorado and win awards performing all the heck over the place.) When the years of the real day job began, Elaine hooked up with co-workers to play in a five-piece celtic/contrandance band, Swinging Moose, which performed locally for nearly ten years, and made live recordings of two concerts. The pennywhistle and English horn still appear in Elaine's solo recordings today, and two Swinging Moose members are accompanying a track in this album. Yet, Elaine had still not written a "pop song" worthy of the name. That changed when she met Jeff Keister, a does-everything rocker who introduced himself to her with "here's all the mps3 of my high school band, and here's all the mp3s of my college band, and here's all the mp3s of ..." - which is to say, his old bands Nul Set, Rule of Thumb, Succotash, and Relish. Type Elaine's name into YouTube to check out what happens when he comes by to rock up her stuff. Jeff is featured on two tracks in this album, including a co-write which started as a YouTube video of a jam with a looper. These two have a backlog of co-written demos and when they're ready, you can bet they'll announce it! Hey, are you still reading this? [emphasize] You are going to like my music. [/em] And there's more where this came from. I do FAWM, I do Song Fight! Stay in contact and you'll have a lifetime subscription to more fun musical demos. Looking forward!