Yearbook EP
Sleeping At Last
Folk-Rock, Wheaton, IL
Ryan O’Neil (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist) is one month away from completing his incredibly ambitious Yearbook EP project – a 3-song EP for every month of the year. The September EP will conclude the year long project, which began in October 2010.
Special guest musicians each month, including Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Jacob Marshall (drummer of Mae), Brooke Waggoner and Laura Musten (toured with Owl City this year), made the project possible for Ryan to complement his ukulele/guitar/piano-driven singer-songwriter core.
Imaginably, this project contains a year of diversity in textures, topics, themes, and moods. The lyrics of December EP bridge thematically into January. July brought on a tense week for Ryan as he got over a flu virus which threatened to delay the release.
The year has been a great adventure as Ryan has learned the joys and challenges of creating a steady flow of music fitted to months and seasons. With plenty of decisions made on the fly, he has called people to help out who have literally created accompaniment parts within hours.
Each EP comes with a beautiful watercolour digital booklet. Listeners can purchase EPs from a particular month or get the whole set at a discounted price via the website.
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