The Walla Recovery

Hello there! Cheers for the follow! :D I liked your songs! Keep up the good work. I look forward to listen to it :D

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:14:00 -0600

Thank you! Hope you got the free download and that you have an awesome week.

House Concert Petition & Info

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:36:40 -0600

I am now officially booking house concerts. This is a very exciting opportunity for me to meet and visit with you in person, and for some of you to bring a diverting and illuminating night of music into your own neighborhood. If we work together, we can make it happen! If you’d like to see this idea become a reality (either as a host or as an attendee), you can take action in one of the following ways:

1. I need 42 more people to sign our petition at slowbizz.com so they’ll assist me with the logistics of scheduling house concert tours: http://bit.ly/yu6BTd …It takes only a few seconds of your time and doesn’t cost a cent. If you’ve already done this, thank you very much!

2. Email me directly (booking [at] thewallarecovery.com) if you’re interested in hosting a house concert. Wherever you live, I’d be grateful and honored to play for you in your home.

What’s a house concert, you ask? Why, it couldn’t be simpler! You have a living room, and we have songs. When combined, your friends and family are entertained and delighted over an intimate and peaceful evening of storytelling and music. We arrive with our instruments as a 1-3 piece band and play for about an hour, starting around 7 or 8pm. Sometimes we can provide an opening act as well. If you are enthusiastic about sharing our music, you have a space that can hold 10-50 people, and you can suggest a donation of $5-10 to attendees, please let me know by email: booking [at] thewallarecovery.com.

Thanks for reading this and for your support! I’d love to hear from you, so don’t be a stranger!

BTW, if by some horrible mischance you’ve not downloaded our latest album, “With Trembling…” for free yet, please do so now: http://rcvr.me/free

Much love,

Zack and The Walla Recovery

Hi, I just listened to your music and instantly fell in love!! Really, really lovely music. Best wishes, you guys are really great. <3

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:19:16 -0600

Thank you so much! Did you get our free holiday download at http://rcvr.me/free ? Merry Christmas!

Free Christmas Songs & Huge Holiday Sale

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:52:00 -0600

Merry Christmas!

I just finished recording 2 new Christmas songs for you. Number one is Carol of the Bells / The Holly and the Ivy, our first electronic instrumental ever. On the second one, Angels We Have Heard on High, I had some serendipitous help from founding Walla drummer Brandon (back in town for a few days), my wife Brittany, and our dog Wilson on percussion. These make up the 3rd volume of A Star, a Star, our Christmas collection. As a gift to you, all of it’s 6 songs are available for free right now. Well, don’t just sit there! At least take a listen and see if you like them…

Download A Star, a Star (Vols. 1-3) for free now at rcvr.me/xmas

Also, we are having a huge holiday sale. For a limited time you can get a With Trembling… CD (7 songs) for $3 and a high-quality Lion Shirt for $5, both 66%-off, shipped to your door in time for the big day! Definitely cheap enough for you to pick up one of each for yourself and a few for those special someones, too…

Buy $3 CDs and $5 shirts now at rcvr.me/xmas

Lastly, to all of you who’ve written kind words about our latest EP With Trembling… and/or shared it with your friends, THANK YOU! We’ve gotten a lot of timely encouragement, as I am currently writing on a brand new, mixed-media, full-length story-album and can’t wait for you to hear it.

I hope you enjoy the new songs and have a joyful and safe holiday season. I am grateful for your involvement in this little community of wonder. I hope you’ll reply to this email and let me know how you’re doing. If you’re on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or Instagram or Vimeo or Flickr, please find the links below and connect with me.

Joy and peace, friend…
Zack - The Walla Recovery

“Love came down at Christmas: love all lovely, love divine. Love was born at Christmas. Stars and angels gave the sign.” - Christina Rosetti

You guys are just amazing.! XD listened to your album its (Y) xD

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:39:11 -0600

Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanx for follow me. Follow back! :)

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:38:52 -0600

Thank you!

Hey bros! First of all thanks a lot for following me! That was very cool and thoughtful of you guys! And thanks a lot for letting us download your awesome music for free too! I listened to She Said on this blog, and instantly fell in love with it! So far I've listened to 3 tracks from the With Trembling and they're so my type of music. Will check out the rest of the tracks now. GOOD LUCK!

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:38:30 -0600

Thank you for the kind words! I’m happy you like the music. Keep in touch!

Thanks for adding me folks...love your music!

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:37:23 -0600

No problem! Thanks for listening!

Thanks for the follow, Sweet music~

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:37:04 -0600

You’re welcome, and thank you!

Thanks for following! just checked out your music! WOAH you guys are awesome :D

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:36:52 -0600

Thanks for saying that! Glad you are enjoying the songs.

thanks for being my 300th follower! much appreciated :D

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:36:30 -0600

No problem! Congratulations!

Thanks for the follow! I took a listen to She Said. You guys are great! Have a good one :)

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:36:19 -0600

Thank you! You too!

thanks for followin me here, too! followed u back..you guys are great, remember that! and one day, you'll be on top, i'm sure ;)

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:36:02 -0600

Thanks!

2010: A Review

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:45:00 -0600

Happy [Belated] New Year!

(We realize this is a long email… We hope you find it an enjoyable diversion. If you don’t have a copy of She Said yet, please download it for FREE and listen while you read. Thanks for your time!)

We’d like to thank you for being a friend of The Walla Recovery. Some of you have been with us for a long time, even since the first day we launched iamalden.com and gave away mp3s of the original Beautiful You. Believe us, we don’t take the fact that you’re still here lightly. Many of you found us more recently, and we’re just as grateful that you’re a part of us.

2010 was a good year for many reasons, and we are excited about 2011. It promises new songs to sing, a new story to tell, a new mystery to pursue, and for sure, we’ll want you to be right in the middle of it. We want your experiences and personality to affect us. Be on the lookout for an email, a video, or a post explaining specific opportunities to become integral to the narrative. If you’re interested in jumping in right here at the start, hit reply and let us know.

We’ve got a load of thrilling news to share with you, but we can’t tell you yet… at the moment, it would be a bit like opening Pandora’s box and finding nothing inside. (Read ‘October’ below for further vagueness…) If you’re on Twitter or Facebook, find us! We would love to connect with you and make sure you’re the first to know what we’re talking about.

And now… 2010: A Review

January - The new year found us still riding the tide of your overwhelming support to release our first EP, With Trembling… via a successful Kickstarter project at the end of ‘09. Again, thanks from the bottom of our hearts. We found out that one of our favorite things in the world is to find Lion shirts in random Facebook photos. We had fun recording the With Trembling… Digital Bonus Package at our home studio and released it for pre-orderers and the rest of the world, which contain: band session commentaries, ringtones, and the original handwritten lyrics (some were nearly a decade old) for each song on With Trembling…, not to mention three new acoustic tracks.

February - We live in separate locations around Texas: Arlington, Austin, College Station, Waco. It would require up to four hours to drive from one end of our spectrum to the other. Thanks to Redeemer in Waco, we were able to start practicing on a regular basis at a central location. We spent some extra time in the car, but it was worth it to have our Saturdays together and enjoy starting in on some new material.

March - Biweekly practices continued, and we began experimenting with electric guitar sounds. This was an opportunity highly anticipated by our cellist, Jonathan, who’s always looking for a good pedal to stomp. We learned a lot from some business contacts and did a few interviews. We realized yet again how much we love playing music, and art in general. We vowed to throw ourselves into a new creative work and see what happens.

April - In celebration of three-fourths of our birthdays, over 300 of you downloaded our latest EP for free, and many of you told your friends online, creating a momentum that kept us among the topmost downloads on NoiseTrade.com for 10 days. We are still full of gratitude over your efforts and encouragement. We planned a few performances in various places around the state, and I played a birthday show in Dallas.

May + June - Jonathan got a new amp and used it to find a killer live sound for the cello. We played shows in Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and College Station. We played our first gig as a six-piece (adding mandolin and piano to the standard guitar+cello+bass+drums), and found amazing friends to fill-in on some instruments when the distance kept us apart.

July - We took some restful time off, and Brandon toured with his other band (The Captive - we highly recommend their new EP). Justin moved to a new city. Jonathan moved to a new job. We moved our blog to Tumblr.

August - For a short time, we gave away every song we’ve ever recorded (18 in all) online. Again, 300+ turned out to download and spread the word, resulting in more people hearing our songs than we could’ve shared with on our own. Thanks, you.

September - I was blessed to open for one of my very favorite singer-songwriters, Andy Gullahorn. I even geekily asked him to sign a poster for me (he obliged). We found lots of new smiling faces online at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr, Vimeo, and SoundCloud. We ran out of Lion stickers :(

October - Plans for a new full-length recording began, and it’s working title “The Death Album” was established. After deciding on the particulars, we realized it was more ambitious than any project we’ve attempted. Cross your fingers with us, because if all goes according to plan, you’ll be able to hear pre-release demos before the end of 2011, with a tentative release date in early 2012, and more surprises, downloads, and plot twists than you can probably handle will season the days between now and then. For now, the only thing I can say is that we’re not restricting ourselves to audio this time. When the right moment comes, you’ll do your best to tell everyone you know about it, and we’ll do our best to make it worth your while… Do we have a deal?

November + December - We recorded and released A Star, a Star - Vol. 2 as a digital download, and more than 200 people grabbed it, giving us a place on the home page of NoiseTrade.com once more. Our very talented friend Hieyler Talle let us use one of her paintings for the album art. This was our second year to publish two free Christmas songs. We plan to keep up this pattern in coming years, and perhaps you’ll see a compilation in print or a live Christmas show in the future. We think that would be really fun and cool.

And now, here we are, thank Goodness. For reading this far, we would like to reward you with the tying together of a theme, so it looks like we planned these words in advance. Many of you know why we do what we do, and why we’d like to do more of it: we want to encourage you. We’ve been through hard times and know what it’s like when a friend is there, and when there’s no one. We want to belong in a friendship with you. We want to listen and talk about all the difficulties of life and move forward together, toward a bigger expectation of joy. We want to watch as each of us becomes truly free. If you need some encouragement, don’t be shy… contact us and say ‘hello’! As a pal and fellow internet user recently pointed out to me:

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What!? You, too? Thought I was the only one.’” - C.S. Lewis

The best of friendship to you this year…

Zack (along with Brandon, Jonathan, and Justin)

Thank you for letting us download your great music for free <3 I am happy to listen to you guys every day on my Ipod :)
Greeting from your fan @ Mexico <3 And I can assure you that now that I am sharing with my friends I am not the only Mexican fan you have ;)

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:08:26 -0600

Thank you for your kind words! Glad you like the songs. Keep yourself informed here and on Twitter (@WallaRecovery), because we’ve got some new stuff to show you in the coming months. Happy New Year!

Free Christmas Music & Shipping

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:28:00 -0600

We are happy to present to you the 2nd installment of our holiday collection, A Star, a Star - Vol. 2, available to you for FREE. Download your copy now! Please tell your friends on Twitter & Facebook. The more, the merrier!

Also, we are offering FREE SHIPPING on all orders placed TODAY at our online store. Our CDs and shirts are crafted with care on high-quality materials. If you’re still looking for a last-minute gift to give, order today and we’ll ship it ASAP.

We greatly appreciate your reading our messages, encouraging, and supporting us. We hope your 2010 has been as blessed as ours, and we hope your 2011 is even better.

Merry Christmas to you!

Zack

"Disaster" on The Daytripper TV

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:43:41 -0500

Check out “The Daytripper” on PBS in Texas this weekend and following to hear our song “Disaster” played during the closing montage of their episode on Wimberley, TX. Thanks to Chet Garner and The Daytripper staff for letting us be a part. Here’s the schedule:

Dallas (KERA) - Sat. Nov 6th, 10:30am
San Antonio (KLRN) - Sun. Nov 7th, 1:30pm
Austin (KLRU) - Thu. Nov 11th, 8:30pm & Sat. Nov 13th, 10:00am
Amarillo (KACV) - Thu. Nov 11th, 8:30pm
Houston (KUHT) - Sat. Nov 27th, 3:30pm

Please tell your friends and let Chet the Daytripper (@chettripper) know what you think about The Walla Recovery. Hope you enjoy the show!

The Works (Free), New Bandcamp, etc.

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:40:00 -0500

We’re currently, for a limited time, giving away every song we’ve ever recorded (18 tracks) for free…

The package includes 2 instrumentals that we’ve never let anyone listen to before. Please 1) download, 2) enjoy, and 3) help us out by doing one or both of the following:

Spread the word via Twitter & Facebook (use the appropriate button after entering your info)
Throw some cash in our tip jar (use the ‘Finish’ button after entering your info ;)

Your help, however little time it may require of you, will go a long way to grow our little Walla community. We’re working on a very large and ambitious new album, and we want to be able to share it with as many people as possible. Thanks for your time and support!

Also, you can now name your own price (even $0) for all digital mp3 downloads, at our new online store (powered by Bandcamp)…

And, as if that wasn’t enough, we’ve dropped prices on all physical goods. That means you can bundle your chosen-price download with a CD or a t-shirt cheaper than ever before. Check it out!

Our new project in the works is requiring a ton of study and is full of mystery and darkness. It houses a conversation we need to you join in on and covers topics we need you to explore with us over the next year. This is the biggest single work we’ve ever attempted, and to us, it’s completion is a matter of life and death.

Keep your eyes peeled for clues and invitations to jump in, and don’t be shy, because we need your help! You are an integral part of the story. Stay tuned…

Are you in love right now?

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:55:17 -0500

Absolutely.

- Zack

What sound does a giraffe make?

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:54:31 -0500

They’re mutes, I think. It’s not funny. I wouldn’t want to be a mute.

- Zack