The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some extremely talented musicians and I’ve been lucky enough to have played alongside them for many years. When a good friend, who just happens to be the principle tubist for the San Francisco opera, asked me to help him record an obscure piece for tuba and piano I was able to finally bring my skills as a professional audio engineer together with my years as a professional musician and that was the beginning of Digital Victoria records. That was 2012, and I hoped to bring a spotlight to the deep pool of talent I knew existed in the Bay Area. The eight albums I’ve produced in those 12 years have been some of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life. I thank all of the musicians who have trusted me with their souls and sounds, I really believe we have done some good work.
But the hopes of this venture can no longer ignore the realities of trying to operate and run a label as a sole proprietor.
I thank everyone who encouraged me in this crazy endeavor, bought CDs or actually subscribed! Love and hugs to the people who assisted me (for no money) and whom without I couldn’t have done even this much; Randi Daniels at 381 Design for designing ALL the album graphics and my website. My wife Mary Ellen for literally bringing home the bacon, cooking for recording sessions, helping me strategize those same sessions… well, everything. Thank you to ALL the cats for trusting me and playing your asses off!
All the CDs in the catalog with be heavily discounted through January 2025, so shop now! The digital downloads will be available, but not discounted, as I’m trying to reduce the stock of the physical media before I close the doors. After that the digital downloads will also disappear.
This is not the end of my career or my passion for creating high quality, professional music and I hope if you’re on my mailing list you will not mind if I contact you in the future to let you know what I’m involved with. You won’t get emails from Digital Victrola but from me directly, Eric Wayne, so please mark those emails as “not spam?”
— December 2024