How will empathetic people survive the troubles of this time? How do we rescue our overburdened spirits from overlapping disasters such as rising fascism and climate collapse? And from where can we summon the power to heal ourselves, our communities, and the planet?

These are the animating questions behind singer, songwriter, and storyteller Shannon Curtis’s upcoming album Good to Me—Curtis’s 10th studio album in as many years. 

Confronted in late 2021 with near-paralyzing anxiety brought about by the increasingly fraught state of the world, Curtis aimed her angst at her journal. Using tools she acquired in 12-step recovery, she set out on a quest for self-healing, with the intention of nurturing her personal sense of peace and agency in a world on fire.

The journal entries became 80s-inspired synthpop songs, influenced in equal measure by the textural angularity of Kate Bush, the Blade Runner-esque futurism of Vangelis, the stripped-back propulsion of Yazoo, and the hopeful joy of OMD. 

The result is a song journey that took Curtis through a practice of identifying failed coping mechanisms (“From the Inside Out”), coming to terms with radical acceptance (“Be With What Is”), learning to trust her inner truth (“The Silent Sea”), and reconnecting to her serenity and power (“I Am”)—even as the world continued to burn. 

The extended Good to Me album project aims to illuminate a path for others to undertake this same journey for themselves—complete with a companion book and scripted podcast coming in 2023.

Although Curtis has been making music for 25 years—first as the frontwoman for a Christian-lite rock band in her twenties while a pastor’s wife, then as a chanteuse divorcée composing broken-hearted love songs after leaving both her marriage and her religion—she found her stride when she stopped trying to “make it” and instead leaned into the community of people that had formed around her music over the years.

Curtis subsequently spent close to a decade performing intimate house concerts all over the United States, each one hosted by a member of her community of supporters. The book she published in 2014 to help other artists do the same debuted at #1 on Amazon’s Music Business Best Sellers list. 

Curtis’s community had shaped her approach to live performance in unexpected ways; as she realized during her house concert tours the power her music had to help people find deeper connection with themselves and one another, it began to shape her writing as well.

Her first widely visible success with this new mode of writing as intentional act of service came with 2015’s viral crowdsourced video “I Know I Know,” which featured clips of fans sharing their experiences with mental health and other personal struggles. The wider exposure from “I Know I Know” led to Curtis’s appearance on a TED stage, which helped give birth to her signature live performance style: a marriage of songs, theatrical storytelling, and score, bringing audiences along on a narrative journey of self-discovery.

The pandemic gave Curtis renewed resolve to use her music as a way to engage her community in connection and healing; it also gave her more time at home to explore and hone a new musical direction, a process which saw her teaching herself synthesizer and drum-machine programming and taking on most of her own production. 

The first fruit of this experimentation was her 2021 album 2020101, for which Curtis did extensive story-collecting research in her online community regarding their experiences of pandemic life in 2020. 

Curtis’s new sound generated some new results: the songs “One Thread” and “Breaking Ground” from 2020101 were regional commercial AAA radio hits. This trend has continued with the title song from Good to Me, which has so far spent three months in the listener top 5 on KBGE in coastal Oregon.

Working with her husband, producer/mixer Jamie Hill (Jens Lekman, Chris Bathgate), Curtis used the pandemic-induced touring pause to reimagine once more her approach to live performance. With the release of Good to Me, the pair will be moving out of living rooms and backyards and into theaters and alternative performance spaces as a two-person synth-pop band, complemented by a dramatic storytelling-and-multimedia experience. 

Good to Me is out December 2, 2022 on Curtis and Hill’s longstanding DIY label Saint Cloud Records, which the couple runs from their home in Tacoma, Washington.

HELLO MUSIC SOULS, 
its your Boy Worldyman :D aka "Iso" (In Remixes I like to use "Epic Iso")
 
This account is for all the collaborations with great artists i met so far. I will follow here only them, so you have easy navigation to them - List is small for now but the art we create is super big! 

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I see Music/Art the way i lived life in skateboarding: you skate, you go any place on earth where someone else skates = connect. As artist i didnt experience the same, i am Iso(lated)soon 8 years, because people missjudge. So lets get it over with: I will always love the Worldys, they will always be with me, and you gotta kill any negative judgement right now and that's it, you are free finally :)

I LOVE TO COLLABORATE
to create masterpiece(s) with you, check my remixes, but really check them out, listen to the full compositions. not just a part of it. My works are always discovery Journeys, that sometimes take me 1 months of producing, to get it right, to unlock something.
So you might hear something you have never heard before, a certain style, a certain energy, or even new ways of hidden storytelling.

I wish i could free the sound I have discovered in what i call "Fadesciousness" (Being consciously inside the subconsciousness), the most incredible drug there is - But I dont abuse any drug, only did some first moonlandings for research. However, Sound in reality is so much more beautiful than the most beautiful sound you have ever heard. There are Singers and Producer behind, who have freed sound that cracked up the whole species, Lana Del Ray, Adele and others. But still, this is nothing compared to the Sound we cant hear, because our human body, the science of hearing, is limiting it. 
So in the non limited world, there is way more sound, more frequencies and non of it distracts, there is no stress, no pain and you are part of the sound! That was an attempt to describe the undescribable. Unfortunately I dont even know what I am talking about, because when returning to consciousness, even if some memory of the experience is saved,  the feelings and unlimited version is gone.

All we can do, to honor sound, is try to be unlimited in our human limited way.
The more free we are, the closer we get to the real world of beauty and PEACE.

Thanks for support!

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