Identical Suns by Identical Suns

Todd Stanton and Rene Rodriguez met due to their mutual admiration of Mike Viola. In 2012, Mike Viola began performing online via a website called StageIt and a Facebook group sprung up.

This online community eventually began to do their own shows at StageIt, with the support and encouragement of the group.

In the summer of 2012, Rene left California for Ohio to visit Todd and his family. They had a great day of making music!

Once back in California, Rene was asked by Adam Waltamire of http://popgardenradio.weebly.com/ to perform at a show in early 2014. Rene and Todd began exchanging musical ideas to have some originals for Rene to perform at Adam's show. The idea evolved and they started sending song sketches and rough demos or lyrics back and forth. With each other working on the others ideas and concepts, songs began to be sculpted from these incomplete musical ideas.

Now, Andrew Stanton has been producing every song written and recorded by Identical Suns.

And in August of 2014, Mitch Trompeter has joined the band in preparation for the 2014 Maumee Summer Fair, which Identical Suns was showcased. Mitch plans to continue to record new music with Identical Suns.

The only rule to the creation of the music is that there are no rules. Each song is an entity of it's own, and has no regard to any genre.

In early 2015, the band was contacted by Scott Bennett (of Brian Wilson Band fame) with an offer to mix their songs. Scott remixed and added special touchs to the recordings with additional vocals and instrumentation, adding a shimmer and sheen to the recordings.

In June of 2015, their self-titled debut album was released on Project 2200 Records.

Tracklist

1.	Baby I'm Down	4:29

2.	Nothing I Can Do	5:04

3.	Coulda Sent A Reminder	4:42

4.	Show Me A Sign	3:48

5.	Yesterday Ended At Midnight	4:38

6.	E.M.I.L.Y.	4:01

7.	Common Ground	4:28

8.	The Turn	9:44

9.	Unraveled	5:40

10.	After The Lullabye	3:02

Credits

released July 22, 2016

Additional Percussion, Background Vocals and Tinkery Piano: Scott Bennett

All songs written by Todd Stanton and Rene Rodriguez except as indicated (BMI).

Produced by Andrew Stanton, Todd Stanton and Rene Rodriguez
Additional Production by Scott Bennett

Recorded by Andrew Stanton

Mixed by Andrew Stanton and Scott Bennett

Mastered by Shane Soloski at Blue Suede Studios, Los Angeles, CA.

_____________________________________________________

Identical Suns is:

Rene Rodriguez: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Todd Stanton: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Percussion
Andrew Stanton: Guitar, Backing Vocals, Keyboard, Bass, Percussion
Kimberly Stanton: Cello, Viola, Percussion, Backing Vocals
Mitch Trompeter: Drums

Special Thanks:

Adam Waltemire of Pop Garden Radio, Steve "Sparky" Brady of Shock Pop Radio, Alan Haber of Pure Pop Radio, Michael McCartney of The Time Machine, Andy Leschnik of Power Pop Square, Jon Roren of WUSB Radio, Aaron Kupferberg of PowerPopaholic, Cheryl Pawelski of Omnivore Records, Andrew Curry of Curry Cuts, Andy Reed of Reed Recording Company, Donald Gormanly, Brandon Schott, Kathy Rodriguez, Sarah Rodriguez, Christopher Rodriguez, Steve Trompeter, Marcia Trompeter, Karen Rahm, Dan Korzeniewski, Ken Simpson, Patrick Simpson, Ellen Considine, Keith Klingensmith, Mike Hardy, Mike Streng, and Steve Eggers.

IndieGogo Campaign Thanks:

This album would not have had the extra special treatment it did if it wasn't for all the contributors that generously gave to support us. Andy Levine, Chris Shields, Dan Korzeniewski, David Myhr, Donald Gormanly, Gordon Weiss, Jennifer Roberts, John Feldmann, Jon Krellwitz, Karen, Stephen and Rick Rahm, Kimberly Stanton, Linda Stanton, Mike Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Jr., Sara Rybaczewski, Stacie & Chad Baumbarger, and Ursula Newman.

These particular contributors hit at or above a specific dollar amount to be credited, but we completely appreciate all contributors. We have felt so humbled and filled with appreciation for all your generosity.

An Extra Special Thanks:

To all the "Weirdos" of the Mike Viola Super Fan Group: You guys are the best! Meeting you all has been such an enriching experience.

And an Extra Special Super-Duper Thanks to Mike Viola himself. Without his talent and generosity, none of us "weirdos" would have ever found each other, this band would never have been formed, and these songs would never have been written.

License