Welcome to Borrowed Voices. I am making this album available here in high quality wav format for the first 100 downloads. I feel it will give my DJ homies a chance to get the high quality tracks. I will be uploading it to my website www.outletmusic.net after the 100 downloads have been reached.

To the Listener,
Thank you for downloading Borrowed Voices. This marks my second full length album and let me say it has been a journey. I'd like to thank my beautiful partner in grime Elisabeth Marcoux. Elis you've helped me produce this album from start to finish, your late nights spent with me hashing out sounds, your ideas, vision and over all concept of each track has been a blessing and I am the luckiest person on Earth just having you in my life. Elis you've been there through it all you were my rock every time I had to dismantle my laptop and cook the mother board in the oven. You were there when I would learn something new and we both would dance around the room, you've seen it all and I love you dearly for everything you do. I'd also like to thank David Guzman for seeing something bigger in my music and helping me achieve many of my dreams I look forward to our continued journey as it has been purely amazing and quite the learning experience; I love you bro. I'd like to thank the one and only Mike Nasser for helping me with post production ideas, mixing concepts and mastering! Believe me, this album wouldn't have sounded the way it does today if it weren't for all of your amazing studio tricks and techniques. Mike you've been a great friend and advocate for this album. Even during the dark times when I truly felt things would never come to fruition you were there pushing me forward. Sean Snarr you are part of the team homie. Your insight's have been perfectly timed and you remained the only other person to hear this album besides Elis and I. Lastly I'd like to thank Andrew Hilman. Andrew you've been a great friend through out the years and all I can say is you keep being you. 

I don't wish to sound drab here but, the past two years have been an ebb and flow of many amazing times and an equal amount of hard times for a lot of us, including myself. I feel this album really demonstrates where I am at and I hope it helps the healing process. I've lost amazing friends to truly tragic events and have gained many friends through these hard events as well. I am dedicating this album to a true friend and mentor in my life. A man who taught me how to play guitar when I was 16 and got me totally hooked on music. His name was Timothy Carter and I can not think of another person who's inspired me more; he pushed me to play better and to think outside of the box, he taught me how to shred and he was a great and brilliant friend. What happened to Tim and his Mother made my heart stop and it will hurt for the rest of my life. I will miss them both and hope they are at peace. As Tim would often say, "music creates crop circles in your soul."

Going into this album I thought about creating a record that was more organically created outside of my mac book. I have been a guitar player, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboardist, and I wanted to create an album where I could use those elements and incorporate the future sounds without it sounding forced. I recorded a ton of drums and used those beats on the entire album. Midway through the album we moved into a house out of town and on the lake I took full advantage of a 1926 Chicago Company full scale upright piano that was beautifully tuned and restored. I wrote most of everything on this piano first and recorded all the pianos with it too. I recorded everything I could on anything I could get my hands on and just went for it. At times I felt like I was the whole band which is something Ive been wanting to do for a long time, playing both producer and studio musician. I plan on many more records done in this way because I enjoyed the freedom of it. As things currently stand though Borrowed Voices has officially killed my laptop. I nursed it through the final steps and can say with confidence that I can now strip a mac book pro down to the mother board in 20 minutes (although I'd much rather not anymore). Right now we are going over ideas how to tour this record. Don't fret though I have an external hard drive and faith that things will work out. I am very happy to gotten this far! We hope to receive donations from supporters through the website which should help with the cost of things and hope to start touring again as soon as possible. I wouldn't have believed you ten years ago if you told me music would bring me to such amazing places, so who knows, I might have a full on Nation wide tour and another full length album out in the next six months. Stranger things have happened :) 

Before I close my letter I'd like to give thanks to all my supporters, you are the ones who keep me positive when things are hard. You are the ones who take me higher when things are going amazingly well. I really love your kind emails, they bring much joy to my heart. I love seeing the good you all do everyday, it  continues to restore my faith in the Universe. Please keep writing and sharing your stories with me and please keep sharing your love, it is very important that we continue to be good to each other and bring light to the darkest of places. Thanks again for downloading Borrowed Voices I hope you enjoy it, it was made just for you.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Belfontaine

Floating Roads

Somewhere Else

Made this last night in about 45mins. Trying to make a song every  2-3 days and I'm going to start uploading them here so my homies can listen to them

Kisses from da Moon

Bandits

Chip

track 15 from "Warm Blooded Lizard," my 2011 spaghetti western instrumental hip hop album

please support my music at http://music.ratsofnym.com
or on itunes
or on spotify

Lesser Known Good

A mixture of sounds spanning a spectrum of different genres that I produce at varying points in my life. Each song I post means the world to me and reflects heavily on what was going on in my life at the time. I use music almost as a scrapbook of my life. 

Thanks for listening, and if you stumble on a track you like please let me know! Criticism is also welcome. I don't have the funds to master any of my tracks so a big thing I've been working on is getting a good mix down. Bear with me while I am learning to really bring my music to life!

Chip

Christopher Robin.