NO TIME FOR TOMORROW RELEASING FIRST EP, ‘MEMORIES'
Daily Republic
By Amy Maginnis-Honey
Apr 30, 2023
VACAVILLE — A quartet of local musicians will release its first EP on Wednesday.
No Time For Tomorrow, a crew of friends, some going back to middle school, have titled their debut “Memories.” The band includes Jacob Preston, Nic Shallock, David Cloutier and Keaton Stout. Preston and Stout met in middle school jazz band at Golden West. Shallock and Cloutier were discovered when all four were in the music program at Vanden High School. By 2020, the four began playing together as a band, and performed at talent shows and school rallies. Covid-19 put a damper on their live shows. “We did our best to continue writing and rehearsing during my senior year,” Stout shared in an email. Shallock graduated in 2020. Preston and Stout in 2021 and Cloutier this spring.
“Releasing this four-song EP has been a goal of ours for a very long time,” Stout wrote in the email. “This project has been a long time in the making, with some writing taking place before I even graduated. The recording process has extended over the last year, as we did the bulk of the instrumental last summer when I moved back to Solano County from college.” Stout attends Azusa Pacific University studying commercial music. The mixing and mastering was done with an audio engineer friend, Hunter Sumner (known as Summi professionally) from Vacaville. It was recorded in a few different places. Guitars and electronic instruments were done in a bedroom studio. Drums were recorded at Valley Church in Vacaville.
The vocals were done mostly in a studio space in Los Angeles. “Memories can be found on major streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. Learn more about the band at @notime4tomorrow on Instagram,” Stout wrote. The songs are largely a collaborative effort. “I’ll usually bring an idea to the guys and we’ll work out a musical arrangement,” Stout wrote. “I write most of the lyrics, and the content has been taken from experiences I’ve had finishing high school, moving away from home, and starting college.” The first song on the EP was co-written with Vacaville’s Steven Frazier. He is featured on the track with an electric guitar solo.
Stout, 19, has been a musician for most of his life. He is the band’s lead singer, and plays the trumpet, guitar and keys. “Growing up in a musical family has been wonderful because it has given me the support to pursue what I love to do,” he wrote in the email. “Many times, pursuing a career in the music industry can be seen as challenging, but my family has always encouraged me to pursue my passion, and see what God has for my life. I have come from a family of jazz, classical, and contemporary musicians and I love being able to incorporate all of those styles into the music I make!” Cloutier, 18, started playing drums in middle school. He hopes to attend UC Davis in the fall and major in biochemical engineering. Shallock, 21, is a computer science major at Sacramento State as well as a stock supervisor at the North Face outlet in Vacaville. He has played the piano since he was about 6 and grew to love making music. He plays piano and bass. Preston, 19, is a student at San Jose State University majoring in chemical engineering. He has been a musician since he was very young, and is the lead guitarist in the band. When he is not studying or with his family, he is playing music or jamming out to classic rock.
The band will publish gigs on its Instagram. “We will have official dates out on our social media soon, as we are still figuring out the performance schedule,” Stout wrote. “The summers are a great time for us because we are all home and off from school! We are also very open to taking on new performance opportunities in the area.”
THE VALHALLA - KEATON STOUT
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Stemming from his classical and jazz background, Trumpeter and Indie/Pop artist Keaton Stout already has a handle on the arts. He has played trumpet and piano in many different musical groups, but it was not until his sophomore year of high school that he truly found his passion for singing and songwriting. He says, “As I got older, I focused on sports but eventually I realized that music was my real calling.”
His debut of an unreleased song which he credits as his first “serious” song at a high school talent show was “a major turning point” for him. He laughs about it now, but Stout says that before he performed the song, he “started out writing love songs for girls.” The feeling of writing about his true feelings and expressing them for an audience made him realize that he wanted to write about an array of things and not “just love songs for girls.” Stout acknowledges that song as “the inspiration and foundation to what [he] writes today” holding his music to a “standard.”
Once school closed down in March 2020, the members of his old band, his friends, found it
difficult to organize rehearsals and spend time together. This newfound alone time prompted
Stout to carry out his dream of “releasing music that [he] produced, recorded, performed, and
[wrote] on his own.” As his creativity naturally flowed, Stout began releasing new music. “It was a
wonderful journey and I was excited to express my musical feelings and share it with others.”
Stout wants to be a song performer for “the rest of his life.” In the fall of 2021, he is seeking
higher education to earn a degree in Commercial Music, where he will learn “the many facets of the music industry” and all things music business such as “marketing, management, budgeting, legal issues, and digital media” according to Keystone Bachelor Studies. He is always working on new music and is set to announce his partnership with a new band in recent coming months. Stout knows that he “will be happy anywhere in music whether that be playing trumpet in a symphony, working for a record label, or advocating for [himself] as an artist” but recognizes that his degree in Music Industry will smooth out the clerical work of independent artistry.