Hajanga - Live: A thank you gift for you all!!! (Patreon)

It's been a gleaming roller-coaster adventure since last I wrote to you all, and coming home to my room from three weeks of touring, I thought it was time for an update from me to you!

First, my summer tour has almost come to an end! It is has been a giant learning experience for me, filled with an extraordinary amount of delight. To share music in so many new places was a treat and a giant privilege. So wonderful to meet a bunch of you Patrons in various places, too! I have one more show still to go, which is in Marseille next week – but otherwise I am finished for age 21 – I turn 22 in August! Yay.

Second, an apology – for the delay in the physical CDs getting to some of you who have pledged for those. My wonderful CD-organising team have been in the process of sending out all week, but it has taken more time than anticipated to assemble a full list of shipping addresses and package them all up safely. I can now say that every single physical CD has been shipped, which is totally fantastic! Stay tuned over the next few days and weeks. I have spoken to every one of them, and they cannot wait to belong to you all, and get to know you.  In the meantime, all of you album-download pledgers should have your copies by now! Let me know if I have missed you out :-) More good news is that Patron-only JC T-shirts should be arriving over here next week! I'll be able to send those out to all T-shirt pledgers when those come in, as the icing to the physical-CD-cake.

Thirdly, most of the exclusive Patreon goodies from this album are still to come! Over the next few weeks and months, you'll be being hit by:

· Lyrics to every song on the album

· Behind the scenes footage – both of the recording process in this room and of the mixing with Ben in Los Angeles (with Herbie and Quincy coming to visit)

 · A Groove Bank filled with album stems, demos, experiments, isolated instruments and broken-down grooves, to be shared with you over the coming weeks

· A playlist of all my favourite music!

· Monthly Hangouts every month

And on that note, the next Monthly Hangout for all you lovely hangout-ers will be this Sunday at 6pm UK time! I'm going to play a bunch of songs on the piano for you all :-)

But today – a very special gift for you all. I made a video of 'Hajanga' in the music room exclusively for you, my patrons, to say thank you for being a part of this process! Many of you have been Patrons since before the dawn of both 'In My Room' and the whole solo show... without you I wouldn't have been able to bring this entire beast to life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Apologies for a long one. Exciting things to come! Thank you all for being here. You are wonderful.

JC