We're on ITunes!

The nice people at CD Baby have been sending out our CD to all kinds of digital music places most notably for me is ITunes since that's pretty much the only thing I use.

It's exciting being able to search Fati and Charles and find us on ITunes. It's like we're a real band or something. Here's a link:


We're also on Lala, Amazon, and I think Didiom. In awhile, we should be up on most digital music sites. Here's a list from CD Baby about their distribution.

Abbasubi website is alive!

The Abbasubi website is done--at least the first draft of it. www.abbasubi.com Please leave comments about the site--good, bad, grammatical, conceptual whatever, here or email them to us.

Our CD, El Baile del Sombrero is up on CD Baby www.cdbaby.com/cd/faticharles and I've done a big email/Facebook mailing.

Plus, we're going to have a CD release party where it all started in Prospect Park on June 6th at 11:00 am which will also be a birthday party for me. Actually I remember we were trying to get the CD done by Fati's birthday in January, then we were shooting for our anniversary, then Kylen's birthday but I guess it ended up being my birthday.

We're really excited and it's fun to actually announce to the world that we exist. It is strange though now that I realize how grass-roots, small time we are. I don't mind that. I actually think it's kind of neat but I do wonder what it would be like to have someone else doing this work of publicity and distribution.

We've worked with such a great and supportive team of people who have as much to do with us finishing this project as we did so we're passing along all the positive comments we've gotten from people to them too.

Some Feedback

We've gotten some very positive feedback on the CD which is great. Chloe's teacher really likes it, particularly the song Chloe sings. The child of one friend actually sang La Esponja while taking a bath! David's girls have put El Baile on heavy rotation (they want to hear Charles sing), and amazingly the daugther of one of our friends, sat quietly and listened to the whole CD straight through.

It's exciting to hear what people think. Once CD Baby sets it up on their site, we'll really start doing publicity!

The CDs are here! The CDs are here!

Yesterday, Fati, Male, and the kids waited patiently at home for our CDs to arrive from Discmakers and at about 12:30 pm, the fateful buzz sounded. "Llegaron los CDs!" yelled Fati.

After Fati let in the UPS guy who hauled up 8 boxes of OUR CD(!), she discovered he was Dominican and had a 4 year old son, so of course he left with one of our CDs.

A whole new set of projects awaits but we now have completed the "making a CD" project which we are really thrilled about.

Yeah!

Easter Party and Fati & Charles Practice

On Saturday, we had a wonderful Easter Egg Decorating and Search party at our friend's house in Ditmas Park. Fati and I took the opportunity to start getting in shape by playing some songs from the CD. Along with scones, empanadas, OJ, and fruit salad, we brought sponges, rag dolls, brand new lyric sheets, and lots and lots of hats.

How do we do this again?

Everyone put on hats for El Baile del Sombrero!

We had a great time.

Mastering and a Playing a Show???

Today was a pretty big day. Our CD got mastered by Roman Vail at Joe Lambert Mastering. I stopped by the studio and actually heard the difference between mastered and unmastered. So now we just have to listen and make sure it sounds good and send it off to Discmakers! Wow. We're close.

We also totally out of the blue played a couple songs at a birthday party. Fati's mom brought in a new shipment of hats and we prepared sponges and props for a few songs. It was nice to practice our songs and dance around a bit. It will be fun to play our new songs!

Chloe in the Studio

The kids know all our songs and Chloe knows most of the lyrics and sings them really well. We wanted her to get in the studio and sing the lullaby Estrella that Fati sings to Kylen almost every night.


Chloe got comfortable pretty quickly in the studio.


David and I tried a bunch of different things. First the normal headphones and mic stand.

Then a hand held mic. David actually got on the floor and pretended to be put to sleep which was the best take.

But Chloe was only marginally interested in singing Estrella so many times. What she really was fascinated by and liked doing was rocking on drums.