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In July of 2011 Jenny contacted Geordie, John, and longtime Barmitzvah Brothers guitarist Tristan O’Malley in order to record an album dedicated to the imminent birth of her second child.  The band had gone on hiatus in 2008 – giving each of the three youths time to follow their own course both as people and musicians.  John vied to become the subject of a Bruce Springsteen song by marrying early and becoming a factory worker moonlighting as a rock musician; Geordie worked hard towards international pop superstardom, recording and touring with Islands and his own band the Magic; and Jenny commenced her career as Jenny Omnichord, solo touring musician and hardworking mother of the little son, Otis.
But similar to her album of duets for Otis, Jenny wanted a special album to welcome her second baby into the world.  Over the course of a week, Jenny, Geordie, John, and Tristan reunited at Andy Magoffin’s House of Miracles in London Ontario to record “Growing Branches”, a series of songs celebrating the music of the Barmitzvah Brothers as well as babies, mothers, little sisters and older brothers.

The band released “Growing Branches” digitally on Zunior on September 16th 2011, on the day Jenny gave birth to her first little girl, Arrow.  It marks 10 years since the Barmitzvah Brothers’ first record, 11 years as a band, and just for fun it is being released on 11/11/11 as 11th release on Label Fantastic!  There are 24 different album covers, and each CD comes with a different selection of four band and family photos.

Paul Almond is awesome!  On this record he is backed by the Blowbots, who are Richard Laviolette on drums, and Jenny Mitchell on bass.  The music is like a punk version of Daniel Johnson.  It’s a hi-fi recording of a low-fi basement band.  There are songs about nymphs, diarrhea, dragons and dinghies.

Recorded at the House of Miracles April 2011.

This is it!  Jenny Omnichord’s new album “All Our Little Bones” on vinyl, in a package that doubles as a Cross Canada Board Game!  Complete with little wooden car playing pieces, and a die!  While listening to the album, you can race each other across Canada along the country’s major highways, hitting road blocks, and changing destinations along the way.  More fun than music!

This is the CD format of Jenny Omnichord’s “All Our Little Bones”  A huge album in a tiny package!  A single page insert into a clear poly-sleeve, this simple format is designed to get the music to you cost-effectively.  Because if you want visual excitement, you should purchase the 3-panel Gamefold Vinyl record/Cross Canada Board Game, complete with wooden car game pieces and a die!

Between the group of us, we tour all the time!  So for a $2 pledge, one of us will send you a post card from our next tour.  It could be from Europe!  Or Dawson City!  Or Newfoundland!

Postcard!

This is it’s own reward, and isn’t included in any of the other purchases, so if you would like a postcard to go along with your CD or handkerchief, you can select both before you check out, and you will receive them at separate times in the mail.  So don’t worry if one comes before the other!

You get an official Label Fantastic Music Club! membership card!  The membership card entitles you to a $2 discount on each of your first three Label Fantastic releases purchased at shows.  And it’s also just a proof of awesomeness.  If you request it, we will glue* a pin to the back so you can proudly display it on your lapel!

*Quality of glue not guaranteed.  Please note – with pin, it will be diffiult to fit it in your wallet or card holder.

Option B: You get the membership card, and a free cd of your choice of our future releases OR embroidered Label Fantastic handkerchief.

You receive the membership card, and the CD or handkerchief, as well as an autographed 8 x 10″ photograph of the group of us, or a batch of homemade cookies.  Let us know which items you’d prefer!

You receive Option C, and a Label Fantastic! T-shirt, or embroidered scarf!

You receive Option C, and Wax Mannequin, Mathias Kom, or Jenny Omnichord will cover the song of your choice!

You receive option B, and Wax, Jenny or Mathias will write you or a loved one a song!

You receive option C, and Jenny will create a construction paper portrait of you!

You receive option C, and if you come to Guelph, and Jenny and Gillian will make you dinner.

You will receive Option C, and Wax Mannequin will make a personalized bust/candle of you!  Send him lots of photos, and he will hand craft it!  This price includes 3 candles, and the original mold

You can also leave the original with Wax, and purchase additional wax candles for $20 each.

You receive option C , and are entitled to a photo shoot with the label fantastic music team!

Same as option K, except all of our cats are in the photo too!

You receive option C, and one of us will play at your birthday party

You receive option C, and one of us will come and play on your album (one 4 hour session, southern Ontario studios only)

You receive option C, and two members* of Label Fantastic  will fly to where you are**and make you dinner

*one member of your choice and one other member
**only Canadian cities with major airports – for other cities, extra travel expenses apply

You receive the postcard, membership card, CD, autographed photo or cookies, T-shirt or scarf, cover song, personalized song (or construction paper portrait), photo shoot with us (and our cats if you want), a (local) birthday party performance, one of us at your recording session, and we make you dinner!

You receive option G, and Mathias, Wax Mannequin, Gillian and Jenny will fly to your town, and perform the song they wrote about you (in a private or public concert)

We will buy a Label Fantastic! Headquarters and name it after you!  And give you pretty much anything else you want from this list.  We would love you! (We probably already like you a lot…)