Hey everyone!

Matt here—just wanted to give you an update on what we have going on these days. As you all know, the pre-order for Here We Are started on Monday (8/2) and will remain open until Monday, August 16th. The response has been great so far & we want to thank those that have ordered the cd & those that have downloaded it via iTunes/Amazon/cdBaby!! With that being said, I just want to stress that this is a limited run of Here We Are. We hope to have a few extra copies left to sell after the pre-order, but there is no guarantee that will happen. So grab one now while there’s still plenty of time! If you have any questions on how to place an order, just shoot us an email & one of us will walk you through it!

In the midst of all of this excitement about the album, Chris & I have continued to write. (which is also very exciting!) We have about 4-6 songs that are in various stages of mixing/recording and I thought I’d share a little bit about the two songs that will (probably) be completed first. The first of which is an older song of mine called “Hold.” It was written about 4 years ago and saw a little bit of time in my old band’s rehearsals, but it never took off. I continued to play it during solo shows & added a part here & there. Chris was listening to some of my old tunes & he asked if we could work on this one. It’s a really fun song to play & sing and he took it and ran with it by adding some great lead & rhythm guitar, as well as an awesome drum track. It has been a tough one to mix because there is simply so much going on within the song—but I’m happy to say that it’s just about done!

The other new song is a beautiful acoustic song that Chris wrote that we’ve titled “Can’t Retrace.” His mic placement was perfect & it really picked up all of the intricacies that lie within his acoustic tracks. This musical relationship & friendship is different from any other I’ve had for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is trust. Chris wasn’t 100% sold on this song, but I was. I heard something & a melody started forming almost immediately. He trusted my judgment enough to send me the files. This has happened with a lot of my songs that I’m unsure of…he asks me to send him the files anyway so he can try out a few things. When I get it back, it sounds like a different song. Chris is in the process of mixing this one & from what I’ve heard of the early mixes, it’s easily one of my favorites we’ve done. It’s safe to say that I’m really excited to release this song so you all can hear it!

When these songs are posted, we’ll let you know! You’ll be able to listen to them on our two sites:
www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling
www.myspace.com/presentlyfalling

And now some more links/addresses for you….
email: presentlyfalling@gmail.com
buy Here We Are on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-we-are/id383622562
our blog: http://leeandcluthemusic.blogspot.com/
follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/clutheleemusic

Again, if you have any questions about the pre-order, just let us know!

Thanks so much….we’re truly enjoying the ride!

Matt

Hello friends, family & fans!

Matt and I are excited to announce that on Monday August 2, 2010 we will begin taking pre-orders for a physical CD copy of our debut album “Here We Are.” The cost will be $10 for a CD and we are looking at taking pre-orders for 2-3 weeks from August 2, 2010. If this date changes or time frame changes, we’ll let you know immediately! The CD’s will be pressed in a limited run, so here’s how to snag your very own copy….

1. Click on this link to get to the PayPal page: https://personal.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=marketing_us/send_money&nav=0.2.0

2. Type in presentlyfalling@gmail.com into the “to” box

3. Type in your e-mail address into the “from” box

4. Enter $10 and make sure the currency matches where you live (USD for if you live in the United States for example).

5. Under “Purchase” make sure “Goods” is selected and under “Personal” make sure “Gift” is selected.

6. Continue and make yourself a password for PayPal and enter in your payment method.

7. IMPORTANT: There is an option to leave us a message before confirming your payment, please leave your mailing address so we can ship it to you! If you forget to add your address, just e-mail it to us!

8. Congrats! You have purchased our debut album!!

Once you submit payment and your address to us, you will get a confirmation from PayPal of what you paid. This is your receipt if you will showing purchase. After the pre-orders are gathered up and confirmed paid in full, we will begin shipping CDs to you over the next 1-3 weeks. Feel free to contact Matt and I if you have any questions and we’ll be happy to step you through the process. You can e-mail us at presentlyfalling@gmail.com

Thanks everybody for your support!! We really do appreciate every one of you!

Chris & Matt

presentlyfalling@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/presentlyfalling
www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling
http://leeandcluthemusic.blogspot.com/
www.twitter.com/clutheleemusic
www.cdbaby.com/cd/ClutheLee

Hi everbody!!

Very exciting news to pass along that as of this afternoon our debut album “Here We Are” is now available for purchase and download at iTunes!! The album is available for $9.99 right now!

Another announcement is that both Matt and I were interviewed about the album and our musical collaboration for a podcast on Monday earlier this week. You can go listen to it here http://www.allthatssacred.blogspot.com/

If you are a Pearl Jam fan I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you subscribe to this free podcast! Super special thanks to our Seattle man Donny for the interview and allowing Matt and I to hog half of episode #60!

In the coming week or so Matt and I will be in touch in about how you can pre-order your physical copy of “Here We Are.” Stay tuned!!

Links to all things Cluthe/Lee are at the very bottom of this page….Thanks to all for your support!!

Muchas Gracias

Chris

greetings from ridiculously hot Waco, Texas. things have been incredibly busy lately in our music world! as we said a few days ago, we’re beyond excited that our 1st album, “Here We Are”, has been released through cdbaby! (you can find it here: www.cdbaby.com/cd/ClutheLee) the response from friends, family & fans (?!) has been awesome & we truly appreciate all of the support. i think i can speak for both of us when i say that the support has left us feeling a tad shy and very humble. THANK YOU!

while all of the album stuff was being finalized, we continued to write & record. it just took us a little while to catch up and get our bearings. these two songs that we’re releasing today have been “in the works” for a couple of weeks and we’re really happy to share them with you all today. they share a common theme/meaning, but the journey to find this meaning is quite different for each song…both musically & lyrically. here’s some info about each song….look for album news right below the song info.

links to hear these songs:
www.myspace.com/presentlyfalling
www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling

“Beautiful”
Lee: (music) Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals, Drums, Mixing
Cluthe: (words) Vocals, Lead/Rhythm Guitar

to be honest, i wasn’t exactly sure of what to do with this song when i first heard it. i just knew that i wanted to do something. Chris pushed me to try out the lead guitar on this one & i hadn’t played leads in any of our songs for awhile. i just listened, closed my eyes & played. in my opinion, this lead doesn’t sound like me at all. not sure if that’s a good thing or not!! in any case, i had a blast & it was one of my favorite leads that i’ve written thus far. i just love the flow of this song & i also love the story behind it. so much so that i asked Chris to shoot me an email containing this story in his own words. here it is:

“The intro and outtro of this song was written in late 2002 just when I started 4 tracking song ideas on tape. It was one of the very first songs I recorded on my own with multiple parts. The first demo had something like 4 guitar parts going on in it! I remember sitting down and developing out this idea after a long talk with a good friend of mine named Dave. It was a talk about a girl that he had just met. I remember listening to him talk for hours about her and after the conversation I had this melody playing in my head. I titled the idea “Beautiful” for a lot of reasons, but mostly because I was reminded of how beautiful falling in love with someone is. When I went to revisit this idea in April I recall putting D, G chords as a little tribute to my good friend Dave G., who called me last month to tell me he proposed to the girl we’d talked about nearly 8 years ago.”

“Say, Say”
Cluthe: (words & music) Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Mixing
Lee: Bass, Guitar, Shaker, Cymbals, Organ

this is an oldie for me. i wrote this shortly after my wife & i started dating. i was in a band then & brought this song to rehearsal one day, but like so many others that Chris & I have re-worked, it just didn’t fit. i continued to play it during solo gigs because it’s just a lot of fun to play and sing. also, because my wife loves it. (which makes me very happy!) Chris was listening to some of my old songs & grabbed onto two of them–“Say, Say” and “Hold” (which i’m mixing right now)–and asked if I’d like to re-work them. this is all one take & i tried my best to stay true to the original core of the song. this song, like many of my songs, is for Laurel.

ALBUM NEWS/NOTES:
–“Here We Are” is on cdbaby now!!
-“Here We Are” will be coming to iTunes in the next week or two!!! (crazy!!)
-We’re hashing out a plan for physical release/distribution as i type this. We think we have all of the pieces in place & hope to have a firm update in the next week or two—stay tuned!!!
-The physical release involves more of my sister’s amazing artwork, which she graciously agreed to do!! We can’t wait to see what she comes up with!
-Believe it or not, Chris & I are already talking about the tracking for the next record. We have about 20 songs picked out and our goal is to keep narrowing it down until we reach the magic number of 12-15. It’s going to be a tough task b/c we both love these songs so much. Once everything is finished up on “Here We Are”, we’ll piece it together & submit Album #2 (Untitled right now) for copyright.

So, there you have it. Lots of fun stuff going on these days in musicland. We’re beyond thankful that you all are along for the ride.

Matt

**one more thing before i hit send**

if you want to be on our mailing list or need to update your email address, just shoot us an email! or if you have any questions, thoughts or complaints (whoops!), they can also be sent to the same address. our email address is: presentlyfalling@gmail.com

Matt and I are very excited to announce that our debut record titled “Here We Are” is NOW available for purchase & download at http://cdbaby.com/cd/ClutheLee

Songs from “Here We Are” are available individually for .99 cents or you can purchase the entire 13 song record for $6.99. The record will be on iTunes in the next 2-3 weeks and over the next 2-4 months will become available for download on 14 other online music retailers including Amazon, Rhapsody, and Zune to mention a few. We do plan on selling physical CD’s of “Here We Are.” We will be taking pre-paid orders for those. We will have that information coming very soon, so stay tuned!

Matt and I are both overwhelmingly excited about this event and hope you all share in our excitement. It took nearly 12 months for all the elements to come together in order for us to share “Here We Are” with not only you, our faithful supporters, friends and family, but hopefully new listeners all over the world! I know Matt would agree when I say that this day represents more than the completion of this record, but the start of a long musical journey that is so very special to us! We both send out our heartfelt thanks to all of you who hear us, inspire us and give meaning to our lives! Lots of love!

Chris

Today is the day that Chris & I submit “Here We Are”–both the album & artwork– for digital distribution! I’ll post the release dates (iTunes, Amazon, etc) as soon as we get them. It should be about 2-3 weeks. In the meantime, here’s the artwork that my sister, Maura finished for the album. It’s simply awesome, in my humble opinion. We’d like to thank Maura (www.frag-ment-ed.com) for doing such an amazing job!!!!

Happy 3rd of July!
Matt

(note: the first 2 photos will be included in the physical copies (cd booklets) once they are printed, which may be awhile.)

Hey howdy hey people of the interwebs!

After a very eventful last few months, Matt and I are slowly getting back into working on songs! These two new songs had working titles of 5/2 song (Orwell’s Warning) and 5/8 song (Stagnant In Park)respectively. They were likely written in April, and so finishing them up and getting them to you all is pretty awesome considering that time frame! So, like I mentioned, Matt and I are getting back into things full swing and in fact have something like 4-5 additional tunes we’re working up as I type. Matt’s taking a much deserved vacation over the next week but he tells me when he returns it’s “game on.” We spoke the other day on the phone and both feel like we’re just getting started on this whole music collaboration. I sure am excited and I hope you all are too!

Orwell’s Warning

Chris: Fender Acoustic Guitar, Fender P-Bass, Drum Kit, Shaker, Mixing
Matt: Lyrics/Lead & Backing Vocals, Fender Strat Rhythm Guitar & Lead Guitar

This is the first Cluthe/Lee song I have mixed! As we mentioned in previous updates, Matt and I are both now running the same version of Garageband and made a decision that whoever brings a song to the collaboration will be the one who does all the mixing. Matt has done all the mixing up to Orwell’s Warning and it should be said that he has and will continue to do amazing work. Mixing this one was a little daunting for me simply because my musical mind ran wild with ideas on how it all should be represented sonically. I had a ton of encouragement from Matt along the way and can say that I feel a sense of relief getting the first one finished! Phew! The song has a nice laid back folky sound to it I think and Matt was immediately struck by it. His guitar playing on it is just stellar! The leads he plays are very mellow and fit the tone of the song. I’m biased when I say that this song sounds so great! Having the same recording equipment and Garageband has brought up the sound in our tunes and I know this one will come across as a nice example.

Stagnant In Park

Matt: Lyrics/All Vocals, Fender Strat Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Fender J-Bass, GB Drum Loop, Mixing.
Chris: Les Paul Lead Guitars.

As Matt posted below, this song just might be about moving 😉
I could relate as I was going through a huge move into a house at the time this song was being worked on. When I first got the track from Matt, I had this little staccato part running through my head but wasn’t sure if I could keep pace with the drum loop and everything else. A few practice runs and the record button went on. That part you hear along in the verses was a first take. Pretty proud of my time keeping abilities! Ha! The solo went through several incarnations before settling on this little number you hear in the song. Matt and I both think our guitar interplay in this song is pretty darn good considering we still have never met before, jammed together live. That’s one thing that keeps blowing my mind with this collaboration.

So there you have it! 2 new ones with SO many more coming! Can’t wait to share what’s around the bend in Cluthe/Lee music land. Go check our myspace page or reverb page for all the songs! As always, thanks for listening! Lots of love!

Chris

www.myspace.com/presentlyfalling
www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling

hey everyone…

just wanted to let you all know that Chris & I have been getting back into writing/recording/mixing some new tunes! the first one of these is called “Stagnant in Park” & we should be posting it in the next couple of days. it’s a song that i wrote about a month ago when i was in the middle of packing/moving. i was fiddling around with an open chord progression when the opening lines/melody came to me….

can you fit your life inside a box?
full of every memory you’ve thought….

moving inspired? you betcha.

like i said, it should be posted soon! thanks for reading/listening.

Matt

Laurel took these while I was recording some lead guitar for Chris’ song called “Beautiful.” I had a blast recording it & we’re looking forward to sharing it with all of you!

Cheers,
Matt

Happy Wednesday evening Cluthe/Lee music fans!

It’s been a nice long break since we posted new tunes and I’m happy to announce the release of 2 new songs; Tick Tock and Hands.

Tick Tock is a great bluesy number that Matt wrote and sent me just after the new year I believe. I had just gotten a very basic hi-hat + snare set up going and Tick Tock is one of a batch of tunes that the drum kit was used first used on. Matt has a real love for bluesy rock. His growl on this one is in fine form, as is his rhythm guitar and bass playing! I had a blast trading bluesy guitar licks with him 700 miles away. I’m pretty sure Matt agonized over trying to mix this song. It seemed to get pushed to the back of the line as we were writing quite a bit early 2010 into the spring time. Just in case anybody was wondering, Matt has been responsible for all of the mixing since we began work together late last summer. It’s a big deal to me because he has worked VERY hard to get all 60 + of our songs sounding good and I’m sure he’s a bit relieved when I say that he and I will be splitting mixing duties going forward. Software compatibility was hampering our efforts to do this from the start, and it’s going to be fun for both of us to get a shot at mixing.

Tick Tock

Matt: Lyrics/Vocals, Fender Stratooocaster Rhythm/Lead, Fender Jazz Bass, Mixing
Chris: Epiphone Les Pauuuuul Lead guitar, Hi-Hat & Snare with brushes

The second release is called Hands. Another amazing Cluthe composition that he sent in a fairly complete state. I’d worked up a few leads and a drum track when in the process of both of us upgrading our Mac software, the tracks were lost! When it came time to revisit Hands, I had decided to be bold and use drums sticks on the kit as opposed to the brushes. I think the drums come across much stronger than in any previous song we’d used drums on. As Matt put it in an e-mail last week, the drumming was “badass.” Hands is the first song where both Matt and I used the same version of Garageband which made putting the song together much simpler! I’ll spare you all the nerdy tech-talk on this one 🙂

Hands

Matt: Lyrics/Vocals, Fender Strat-rat-a-tat-tat-ocaster Rhythm Guitar, Fender Jazz Bass, Mixing
Chris: Drums + Sticks, Epi-ET-phone Les Paul Lead/Rhythm Guitars

As always, thank you for listening!

Much Love

Chris