Hi I'm Gijs aka truZarou.
I'm a producer, writer & content creator and over the past 4 years I've been crafting my debut album Tru Story: House of Good News + working on a book to accompany its backstory.
I've launched a crowdfund where you can contribute to my mission and share in its potential success, visit my website www.tru-zarou.com/crowdfund to learn more and see how you can join.
Support the launch of my debut album & book: become a part of its potential success, assist me in setting a World Record to raise awareness & create a better future for artists + help me share my testimony & fuel my mission to reach others!
Use of funds:
The following expenses will be required to fully produce, finalise, promote & launch both the album + book and set an official Guinness World Record successfully:
Guinness World Record Licensing: 12,5k
Marketing: 10-15k
Mixing & Mastering: 5-7k
Event Production: 5k
Ditto Music Publishing & Promotion: 2k
Vinyl Press: 2k
Book Press: 2k
Graphic Design & Animation: 2k
Merchandise: 2-3k
Various costs: 3k
The rest of the raised funds will be allocated proportionally to co-producers + used to cover my day to day life as an artist to continue creating music & related content. According to the tithing principle 10% will go to people in need (who & where will be shared here and on my socials).
There is a soft cap of 50k and a hard cap of 100k and the project will be adjusted accordingly: this crowdfund campaign will run until July 31st 2024 (or until the hard cap is reached).
Royalties:
Depending on the amount invested, the resulting percentage of the royalties tied to the intellectual property (relating to this specific project) will be resulting from the total future sales of:
1. Album revenue:
- Regular streams (Spotify, Apple Music, etc)
- Publishing, commercials and other commercial use (through Ditto Music)
- Voicy
2. Album sales through Web 3 (NFTs)
3. Book sales
All revenue will be transparently reported and transferred quarterly: be sure to communicate your full name, email address, address and bank account / crypto wallet address after contributing to the crowdfund (preferably via the contact options on the website ).
World Record:
To raise awareness for the current royalty structure and create extra attention + PR for the music and its message, I will set the Guinness World Record for Most Songs On A Digital Album (which currently stands at 1000 songs).
Every track needs to be at least 30 seconds and unique, meaning they are substantially different from all others on the album while remixes are allowed.
Besides doing a lot of remixes and adding new snippets, other artists and contributors to the crowdfund can join this World Record and be included as co-producer: which will create even more attention and organic reach.
All the unique tracks will be sold as 1:1 NFTs as well.
Roadmap:
Q2 2024: Crowdfund
Q3 2024: Album Promotion & Finalisation World Record
Q3/Q4 2024: Album Release + NFT Sales
Q3/Q4 2024: Launch Event
Q1 2025: Book Release
Backstory:
This project was born during lockdown and carefully nurtured by diving deep into my soul, searching and experiencing Truth + finding the best way to integrate, facilitate and share these creations and discoveries.
As the name already implies, this is a tru(e) story - my testimony - depicting my journey through many challenges, which eventually led me to blessing of the good news: for which I'm eternally grateful.
It spans a wide spectrum of insights, stories, feelings, discoveries and lessons relating to our reality: God/Truth, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, love, peace, technology, geopolitics (and much more): which I've translated into both sound, words & visuals.
Thank you in advance!
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