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aleut musician records his first by holly F relmerreimer the album is a mixture of pop type tundra timesthnesahnes reporter that you can dance to and also love tape isis now on sale many only the of us can dream about at robber joes records and tapes having our own studio to record our music store in anchorage own songs and music joseph had music lind is a guitar player and vocalist 27 lind such a dream but now the yaryear and he used a computer to assist with old aleut can call himself a recording other instrumental compositions for A 101.0 artist his album 01 he has been working on his first but first he said he had to leamlearn demo album of pop songs during the how to operate a computer this took past year producing his own tapes at time and patience his own studio using his own songs part of the recording and the mixing music process which consists 0of firstirstarst record- tape is tidedtitled alaskan the life ing alla 4 the parts of the separate- which isis also the tidetitle of one of the lyI1 such as lead vocalsv s back up vocals tracks on the tape this and song is drumsnuns and then mixing them together about course life of in alaska at the exact timetune and re recording them lind was bomborn at chibnikchignik lake and together also turned out to be a learn- recently finished recording his just ing experience for lind first two demo tapes which were given on one song I1 had to mix it five to two radio one in bethel and stations in times to get the song I1 wanted he one in dillingham said WAN lind said its difficult to get music the worst part was the monotony played on anchorage radio stations because you have to know the right people unfortunately he doesnt know them before this tape lind had another worst one that featured only two of his the songs they were also played on the part was the bethel and dillingham stations he said using somebody elsesalses monotony I1 recording studio can become quite ex pensive thatsthat s why his other tape on was on the edge ly consisted of two songs lind said buying all the needed of burning out equipment was very costly but worth it in the end he used all his money on these songs from the previous summers fishing to buy recording equipment and 0 miscellaneous necessities to produce P his music 3 I1 was on the edge of burning out on album which he recorded him is entitled alaskan these songs he said joseph undsfirstund s first himselfseff life but he said his friends and family gave him encouragement to keep going sometimes id play a song for lind isnt somebody to see what they thought and theyd really enjoy it while I1 starry eyed couldnt wait for it to get over with lind said about becoming even though lind had run into dif ficultiesfaculties leaminglearning how to record and nchrich and famous mix he has still beat his personal goal I1 I1 overnight for finishing the album hes lind set his deadline for march 18 just doing what he said he beat that by 20 days lind first learned how to play on he likes to do one of his older brothers guitars id sneak up to his room while he being a was out fishing id keep peaking out the window to make sure he wasnt musician comingcoining lind said eventually this led to lind and his six brothers and two sisters putting on little skits for each other then when lind isnt starry eyed about becom- he was in the ift grade he and his ing nchrich and famous overnight hes first got to play for their school just doing what he likes to do be- during lunch once ing a musician when he was first learning how to ive spent a long time on this tape play lind said thats practically all he so im just taking it day by day he did his guitarist idol is eddie van said halen lind knows that the only way to sell his album isis by presenting it to the public and having his songs heard but to promote his album the way he would like will cost him more money on one song than now he can afford right so hes I1 lookinglookin forward to fishing money had to mix it five again this summer he may also look times to get the into getting some type of sponsorship f to help him with marketing song I1 wanted lind has been writing songs almost as long as he has played the guitar he started writing songs 11I1 I1 years ago and has been playing the guitar for 17 id play from morning till noon years and I1 spent a lot of time alone just while he was a member of a three playing he said nianbandnianman band traveling around the state he in the future lind said hed like to would pay close attention to which of try a new sound although he knows his sonsongs peoplele liked the most that the it be rap music he said like pfa red wont music hed band playedafayred and these are the songs a fis song to tryt aun hermens rap just which were chosen for the album for 7unfun