Hello John, good to see you here, already starting to feel like home, I'll be popping in and out and look forward to seeing and hearing some more of yours and Jens songs here.  Best wishes,

Speak soon,

Hi John .So you are the one who works with Jenny. That is cool. Good to meet you. I'm Marc-Alan Barnette. Folks call me "MAB." 

Thanks! Glad we all have landed here. Gavin did a great job setting this up so quickly.

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Hi John .So you are the one who works with Jenny. That is cool. Good to meet you. I'm Marc-Alan Barnette. Folks call me "MAB." 

Hi MAB! Yep I'm the other half of ES. Glad to see you here.

Hello John, nice to meet you. Looking forward to knowing you and hearing about your own musical journey. How do you and Jenny correspond/write, etc. How does that relationship continue and how are you applying it to your career?

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Hello John, nice to meet you. Looking forward to knowing you and hearing about your own musical journey. How do you and Jenny correspond/write, etc. How does that relationship continue and how are you applying it to your career?

Well Jen and I communicate through emails. Thousands of emails. We bounce ideas off each other all the time but it usually starts with me composing something that she will then take and run with. Or she will compose a piano piece and I'll try to work in the rest. I absolutely love Jen's lyrics and vocals. She does an amazing job of finding the melody and making the message interesting. We use google drive or dropbox to share files. I mix and master and then we use CDBaby to distribute. I manage our website, Jen manages our Twitter account, and we both manage our Facebook page.

Jen and I communicate daily and have been working together for nearly 3 years now. The funny thing is, we have only spoken to one another one time via a skype call back in 2016! It just goes to show you that these days technology allows you to do so much. Our process is not ideal. It's not fast (we both have real lives outside of this), but it's the best way we have found to work together while being literally on opposite sides of the planet. I often imagine what we would be able to accomplish by just spending a few days together in a studio. We are both very creative and have similar interests. We are also both very trusting of one another. We very rarely disagree on something. 

Regarding how this applies to my career. My actual career that helps me pay the bills? This has nothing to do with that. Regarding a musical career? ES is all I have done along those lines. I'm always game for collaborating with others especially if they just needed some guitar parts or a solo to something they have already written. I'm always happy to do that stuff.

I responded this on the "Building the Beast or the Best" thread I have going on here.