Of Music and Men

Kenya realizes that there are some important parallels between the music industry and sports, and as she’s trying to figure out her next play to run with Tk’s career and pending album release, she pays a visit to her mentor, a former industry exec who shows her that there’s more than one way to be a player.

This is a story--Of Music and Men--so it's best to start at Episode One: https://soundcloud.com/omampodcast/ep-1-blueprint

For full credits and sources on this episode, go to:

https://ofmusicandmen.com/episode3-1-dont-hate-the-player

CREDITS

Narration

Episode narrated by Kayona Ebony Brown

Episode

Written, recorded, and produced by Kayona Ebony Brown at Siingle Studios in Washington, DC

MUSIC LISTED IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN THE EPISODE

Most music in this episode is provided by Filmstro

End song: Weightless by LiQWYD

Free download: hypeddit.com/link/ghiu91

INSTAGRAM:

Music by @LiQWYD

Word music

Hiraeth by @ScottBuckley

Edited with Adobe Creative Cloud

To have your music considered for placement in the show, send us a link where it can be streamed and downloaded. Soundcloud and Bandcamp are two great sites to do so. Go to ofmusicandmen.com to submit your music.

In this Q&A episode, Kayona answers questions about Of Music and Men, talks about her heroes Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Issa Rae, gives insight about the goal for the project, and provides details about how we got to this point.

1. What is the goal for this approach to the project?

2. Tell us how the podcast differs from the novellas, how the novellas differ from the TV scripts, but what they all have in common.

3. You start each episode with what you call a "cold open". How or why did you want to do this?

4. How would you describe your writing style?

5. The music is very important. Tell us about the journey (past, present, and future) of the music.

6. What can we expect moving forward?

If you have a question, email us at [email protected]

Of Music and Men was created to be a television series. Still working toward that, this project continues to grow. I decided to turn each of the those television episodes into its own novella. For this podcast, you're hearing those novellas broken up into sub-episodes that you get each week. The last eight podcast-episodes that you've heard make up the pilot for the TV show (and for that matter, the first novella).

Confused yet? lol

For credits on each of the episodes that make up this bonus, visit our episode archive page:

https://ofmusicandmen.com/archives/

Please support us at Patreon.com/ofmusicandmen

Of Music and Men is a scripted drama-comedy series presented to you in a weekly storytelling podcast format.

You thought it was a book, or a short film, or a TV show?

Well, all of that is true. Somewhat. Let me explain. Back in 2012, I set out to create a TV show about my life as a single young entrepreneur trying to establish an indie record company in Wash DC. I developed it, wrote the pilot, then made a short film...

The thing is, tv shows, even those no budget YouTube ones, still require lots of resources and people. I know exactly what I want the tv show to be, but I believe that timing is everything, and trying to move forward before it’s time would be a disservice to what I know will be a great series someday.

So I went another route. The pilot script was recognized in a few reputable industry contests, so knowing that it’s a more than solid story worth telling, I made a short film, then I turned that full season I wrote, 12 episodes of tv scripts, into novellas (little booklets).

This podcast is a production, a reading (sometimes dramatic or comedic), of those episodes, sectioned out into easily digestible weekly stories.

We follow a 20-something named Kenya Shaw as she works to build a record label while also (as a bachelorette) navigating perhaps the worst city in the country for single women (and not exactly the place you’d expect when it comes to entertainment) -- Washington, DC.

Tune in every single week for these stories of music… and men.

Music: "Keep on Going" X Khalil Ismail

Jazz Club by Kriss (Italy) - No.mad EP - copyright 2008 - Licensed by Undercut Records for official use to Of Music and Men

Trail by Nobara Hayakawa (Japan) - copyright 2009 - Licensed by Nobara and Intervall-Audio for official use to Of Music and Men

As we prepare for more, let's rewind, shall we?

Taj Kamal is an enigmatic, soft spoken, lyrical genius... and she's the reason Kenya started her record company in the first place.

Not only is this a story of music, but it's also a music experience. So sit back, put on your headphones, and enjoy the show...

For full credits and sources on this episode, go to:

https://ofmusicandmen.com/episode1-4-take-taj-kamal

CREDITS

Narration

Episode narrated by Kayona Ebony Brown

Episode

Written, recorded, and produced by Kayona Ebony Brown at Siingle Studios in Washington, DC

MUSIC LISTED IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN THE EPISODE

All music provided by Filmstro; arranged and designed for this episode by Kayona.

Additional music: 7s Club by Jeff Lopez

Word of inspiration

Scars by Khalil Ismail - Licensed by KI Creatives

To have your music considered for placement in the show, send us a link where it can be streamed and downloaded. Soundcloud and Bandcamp are two great sites to do so. Click here for more info.