Not A Trampoline

Not A Trampoline
Studio Album
Released	2014
Length	36:33
Label	N/A
Producer	Gregtronic
Addtl. Info	Engineered by Bora Karaca Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters Recorded at the LABORATORY in Los Angeles, California

Not A Trampoline is the first solo album by Rob Cantor, released on April 14th 2014.

The first single Old Bike was released on March 4th along with the music video for it, a new website, and new Facebook Page.

History

After the Good & Evil tour in 2011, Rob would continue writing songs with no thought of making an album. Part of his song writing time was taken up by freelance jobs with companies, as well as small tracks released on his SoundCloud. Eventually Rob and friend Ricky Lax would try to tackle creating an entire musical in April 2012, Mr. President, There’s an Asteroid Headed Directly For the Earth: The Musical. These plans would fall apart however after Amazon Studios never picked it up.

After he had written quite a few tracks, Rob would play these for producer Gregtronic, who enjoyed the tracks. The duo soon went to work on recording songs, the first being All I Need Is You. The plans for it was to be a 4-track EP, but the amount of tracks soon piled up and it turned into a full length album. Despite recording it separately from Tally Hall, the album still featured contributions from Tally Hall bandmates. Andrew Horowitz helped write and produce The Rendezvous and Perfect, Ross Federman helped write the drums on Old Bike, and Joe Hawley provided his blessing for Rob's recording of I'm Gonna Win.

One track that was scrapped from the album was described as a "cool-sounding dance track" that was sadly cut due to it not meshing well with the rest of the tracks.

On March 4th 2014, the album opened for pre-release sales through Bandcamp with an unfinished album cover showing Rob with the release date. The music video for Old Bike was released on the same date, the first single from the album.

March 19th would see the release of another single, Ghost. Part of the album's rollout was a new part of Rob's website, Rob's Street Team. This was made to help publicize Rob's music and videos, rewarding street team members with items like demos, pictures, and physical pieces of the videos themselves.

Not a Trampoline mockup created by Bora Karaca.

On April 11th, the album artwork was finished. The album title was inspired by a trip Gregtronic and Rob took after the recording sessions for the album were finished, where they came across some "signage" with assumedly similar sayings on it. The artwork was originally intended to be a single flamingo feather, however when it was mocked up he felt it was too serious, a tone unfitting of much of the album. Bora Karaca would email Rob around the same time with a cover he created to replace a auto-generated cover iTunes made, which struck Rob as weird but fitting. Rob and Bora would go out to KFC to buy some chicken wings to photograph and made the final cover that same day.

The album was finally released on April 14, 2014. The Bandcamp release comes with a PDF file featuring lyrics and credits from the album, plus photos of items which definitely aren't trampolines.

Track listing

#	Title	Writers	Lead Singers	Duration
1.	"Ghost"	Cantor, Gregtronic	Cantor	4:08
2.	"Old Bike"	Cantor	Cantor	3:07
3.	"Garden of Eden"	Cantor, Gregtronic	Cantor	3:23
4.	"The Rendezvous"	Cantor, Horowitz, Gregtronic	Cantor, Madi Diaz	3:37
5.	"I'm Gonna Win"	Hawley, Cantor	Cantor	2:38
6.	"All I Need Is You"	Cantor, Gregtronic	Cantor	3:19
7.	"Flamingo"	Cantor	Cantor	3:16
8.	"La Telenovela"	Cantor, Jhameel, Gregtronic	Cantor, Jhameel	2:56
9.	"In Memoriam"	Cantor	Cantor	1:11
10.	"Let Your Mother Know"	Cantor, Gregtronic	Cantor	3:09
11.	"Perfect"	Cantor, Horowitz	Cantor	3:21
12.	"Lonely (But Not Alone)"	Cantor	Cantor	2:29