( ( ( ( (( I Blow Minds! )) ) ) ) )

O h  W o w w Y .  This one was was a doosey, and lotsa weird fun!

100Kin10 is a movement committed to the national imperative to train 100,000 excellent science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M.) teachers by 2021.  My Cultivated Wit cohorts and I worked tirelessly on this animation to spur the cause.  We decided early on that we'd wrap our message into song rather than yer standard narration and bed music. It was a first for me, so I was excited to try try try. Hear !! See !!

www.blowminds.org

We're building a new Sonya Cotton Record!

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'Trying Song' // Bluebeard (Cocteau Twins Cover)

'Trying Song' is a series of free cover songs originally mouthed by special women. The plan is to release the tunes as they are completed. 

The first offering is “Bluebeard” by Cocteau Twins. I’m  young enough to have missed the group in the 80’s and 90’s, but Elizabeth Frazer’s voice is a permanent truth and it changed me when I found it. 

I hope smiles happen when you hear it. We loved building it…such a beautiful song! Aubrey Trinnaman helped with her voice and the artwork. please share it with others who might feel it.

Download it for free (or donation) at our bandcamp page. Leave your email upon download to be sent the subsequent tunes. trying soon: Björk, Kate Bush, Innocence Mission, etc. 

HERE:  TaughtMe bandcamp page

TaughtMe "Really That Cute" live footage from Mt. Tamalpais

My dear friend Gabe suggested it, insisting that the record release show for "Am I Old?" take place somewhere very special. Clearly it was the right thing to do, so plans were hatched and scouting took place. On October 20th dozens of us lugged piles of gear across of Mt. Tam's proud belly. Exhausted and happy, we setup beneath a generous Bay laurel tree and sang our songs. The mighty pacific heaved far below, blanketed by swaths of cloud. It was the right thing to do.

I'll be posting 3 or 4 tunes from the gathering. Here's the first: "Really That Cute". Keep on the lookout for footage of Tiny Home's set also. It was really REAL.

"Am I Old?" by TaughtMe officially out today

• Today is the official release of my new one: "Am I Old?" You'll now see it on Itunes, Spotify and all other digital retailers. Im also selling it at my bandcamp page.
• I made a music video for "Well Maybe" from the album. I built it from found footage of stuntmen and schizophrenics fromt he 40's.
• an official mountain-side release show is being planned for October 20th here in the Bay area. (stay tuned)
• I'm still offering my entire TaughtMe catalog for a tiny lil' $20 HERE.
• I am working on a group of TaughtMe cover songs, all of which are tunes originally written and sung my women. (Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Innocense Mission, etc.) EXCITED!