Mason Jar Music is an audio and video production company and creative collective based in Brooklyn, NY focusing on organic production through collaboration. We combine the 21st century’s affordable digital tools with tried-and-true analog philosophies and skilled craftsmanship to create high-quality recorded music and video content. We've recently partnered with a local artist, Liz Vice, to bring her sophomore album to life.

Gospel, soul, and R&B infused artist Liz Vice is from Portland, Oregon. With a love of story telling, she has found herself going from working behind the scenes in the film and video world to behind the mic. The songs from the album feature dynamic, soulful vocals, with lyrics are classically influenced enough to feel timeless and reference her deep-rooted spirituality.

When Vice was a little girl, raised by her mother and the middle of five children, she’d hide out in the basement dancing and lip syncing to songs from the radio and soundtracks from her favorite films. Vice vividly remembers her mother’s voice singing “rise and shine and give God the glory glory” every morning to awaken the children, Vice is the middle of five children. With blue painter’s tape on the the notes of a keyboard, placed by her friends who were taking piano lessons, her aunt bought and sit with headphones on her head in the living room for hours mimicking the notes she would here from an instrumental cd.

At the young age of 19 years old Vice’s health declined and for three and a half years on hemodialysis. Leaving a fight in her and many scars on her body from a fistula. Receiving a kidney transplant in December 2005 marked the beginning of great healing and perspective.

Liz Vice has performed and or shared the stage with artist such as  Eric Early of (Blitzen Trapper), Josh Garrels, Josh White (Telecast), Tunde Baiyewu (Lighthouse Family), Luz Mendoza (Y La Bamba), Eshon Burgundy (Humble Beast), and more. She has also gained recognition as a performing artist being named  one to keep an ear out for in such publications such as OPB’s One Song, NPR’s Live Wire, Noise Trade, Relevant Magazine, and Willamette Week. No matter how large the venue, her genuine approach to her artistry and playful interaction with the audience makes everyone feel like their sitting at home on the couch watching a friend sing their heart out.

Liz Vice has also been a featured artist in Portland for such events as Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland Soundcheck, Soul’d Out Music Festival, Siren Nation Music Festival, Music on Main Street, and has opened for such artist as Cody Chesnutt and Saint Paul and The Broken Bones. Liz recently moved to Brooklyn, NY to pursue her music career full-time. She has partnered with Mason Jar Music to bring her sophomore album to life.

"I'm making a second record and what a journey it has been. From moving across the country to settling in to a foreign place that is so different from laid back Portland, to songs literally haunting me until they were released into the digital realm of Pro-tools. I've walked through valleys and peaks not knowing if this record was just for me and no-one else or just for me and letting go so that it can them be for "everyone else".

I have decided that the record is no longer mine and wanting to ask if you'd partner with me. As I wondered through the valley of discovery and created these songs with my friends Micah Bourne, Dana Meinch, Jackie Miclau, Jon Seale, and Jeremy McDonald, and the Mason Jar family, it's time to invite others in by asking you to partner with me. Support financially to give these songs legs to walk into the hearts of the people that need it
most.

No label, No management. As an independent artist, let's squash the idea of "struggling artist."
-Liz Vice

Learn more at:
https://www.facebook.com/LizViceMusic/

http://instagram.com/lizvice

Mason Jar Music is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non­profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Mason Jar Music must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only. Any contribution above the value of the goods and services received by the donor is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.