After 3.5 years and $35,000 (ouch), the next massive project in our effort to preserve & restore Leslie's unreleased performances is now available — honoring Leslie's unambiguous wish to see her music carry on long beyond her lifetime.

Elfland is a huge collection of previously-unreleased Fish recordings:

• 17 live concert tracks — featuring Leslie's more lighthearted songs, mostly performed 2000-2001.
• 6 new studio bonus tracks of Leslie's space filks — produced by Kristoph Klover and Michael Moricz. 
• 7 live bonus tracks — songs we wanted to preserve (but whose performances didn't quite meet the album's quality bar)
• 24-page photo booklet — capturing many never-before-seen photos of Leslie's time in fandom.
• 3.5 hours of Leslie's original concerts — from ChiCon 2000, LosCon 2000, ConChord 2001.

Purchase link here: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/elfland/

Beyond Hope Eyrie, remaining studio tracks were produced by Kristoph Klover. Backing musicians include Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey, Doug Olsen (who you may recall from Minus Ten and Counting) — and I'm sad to say — the final studio vocal recordings we made of Vic Tyler before his passing.

In transparency, this project (and the Pegasus album) were significantly overbudget; at present, my accounting shows Leslie's music category about $17,000 in the red. If you'd like to see more Fish restoration projects like these continue immediately — rather than in 2028 or so when sales/streams catch up — please consider voting with your wallet and buying a copy, rather than just streaming this project.

ALBUM TRACKS

1. Blackbeard and the Angel
2. Millennium
3. The End of the World
4. Dragon Con
5. Hotel Engineer
6. Diana
7. Ishmael’s Oath
8. The Ballad of the Three Kings
9. The Broallywood N-Step
10. Poor User’s Holler
11. Roanoke
12. Catch-a-Man
13. Bully in the Schoolyard Alley
14. Rotary Rocket
15. Dance on the Ceiling
16. Sands of Mars
17. Little Gray Lichen

STUDIO BONUS TRACKS

1. Surprise!
2. A Toast for Unknown Heroes
3. Witnesses’ Waltz
4. Second Home
5. Elfland
6. Hope Eyrie
7. Hope Eyrie (bonus instrumental mix)

LIVE BONUS TRACKS

1. Hard Copy
2. Make This World Come Alive
3. Rulers
4. Refugees of Empire
5. Merry Millennium 
6. They Were Having a Sale At the Gun Store 
7. Angel with a Sword (we found an even better recording)

...AND 3 FULL LESLIE FISH CONCERTS

1. ConChord 2001
2. ChiCon 2000
3. LosCon 2000

Due to copyright reasons, two songs had to be left out of the full concert files.

Saw some post going viral on Tumblr about some sort of potential future regulation to that effect and a comment period that ended yesterday that it was trying to encourage people to comment during. Now I want to know if representation is truly in enough danger to justify the hyperbole of that post talking about how certain characters like [insert a bunch of examples of queer TV characters that they inserted pictures of] could disappear (or to make me afraid to do anything from even ship any non-canon gay ships from currently-airing shows or make an effort to save Brilliant Minds and its gay representation because what's the point if it all could go away) or is that just another instance of something being threatened that's still bad and Tumblr blows it way out of fucking proportion in the name of rallying the masses like when some viral post thought (or at least its poster did yada yada) that the removal of net neutrality would mean every Tumblr user would have to pay 75 cents per post every time they posted?