About TortoiseClimbing™

Who We Are

Originally

We were established in 1993 by David Goettee with the private release of our first cassette album, Solo Collection, to friends and family.

Original mission/goals:

• Produce nice recordings:
• For friends and family)

Current Mission/Vision/Values

Numerous influences over the years brought about evolutions of our original more hobby-like goals/mission. With retirement from his day-job, resources became available to transition to a privately held, small family business located in Maryland, south of Washington, DC. As needed, we work with a number of professionals creating our recordings, companion histories, narration serializations, and audiobooks. Our current mission, vision and values are:

Mission:

• Produce exceptional quality music recordings, for public release;
• Produce indepth companion history publications, and
• Audio narrations of the publications.

Vision

Provide customers with great listening and reading pleasure, accompanied by intellectually fulfilling publications, eBooks and audio.

Detailed background information on existing products, artists, forthcoming products, and links to the sources where our products can be purchased, are found on our website.

Values

• Go the extra mile to ensure outstanding quality products, recordings, companion histories and audio narrations,
• Provide intellectually motivating products,
• Provide deeper insights into otherwise “normal” facts.

Capabilities

Music Recordings

Back Catalogue

We have the wonderful advantage of having retained the sonically very high quality master analogue tapes from all our earlier recordings. We have converted those audiophile analogue masters to audiophile digital for further upgrading to meet our evolved mission by:

• Post production processing;
• Augmenting accompaniments;
• Remixing; and
• Remastering those early recordings.

The reprocessed and upgraded recordings will be publically released for digital downloads, (possibly as CDs for delivery by mail), and via streaming services. A goal is to make as much of our private back catalogue as practical publically available for the 1^st time.

Available Recordings

Our newest release is the extensive album, Hymns and Songs of My Mother. It stradles the previous analogue recording era and the now digital recording era.

2023-24 were pivotal years. We publicaly released:

• The restored and mastered version of The Crucifixion, recorded when David was in high school. (We are exploring other tools for further enhancing its sound quality);
• The new album, Hymns and Songs of My Mother, and
• A few previously songs from our back catalogue previously privately released.

Many more from our back catalogue to follow. In addition to publicly releasing songs from our private back catalogue, going forward we have a long list of candidate notalgic love songs, from which we will be choosing new recordings for a series of EPs and possibly albums.

Companion Products

In addition to producing nostalgic, high-quality recordings of both religious hymns and secular love songs, we produce companion indepth, thought-provoking histories of the times when the songs were written. These will be available as:

• eBooks (digital epub format for download);
• Audio narrations (advance releases of chapters from eBooks); and
• As audiobooks.

Serialized Narrations and Audiobooks

We will produce serialized narrations in advance of the audiobooks, and they will be available as digital downloads. They will also be made available via aggregators to streaming services.

Meaning of Our Name

Our name of TortoiseClimbing™ embodies a combination of concepts:

1. Perseverence - There is the well known story from Aesop's Fables about the Tortoise's perseverence, which enabled it to triumph in the race with the Hare;


2. Creating Our Own Opportunity - The concept of perseverence is adapted/melded with my father's professional experience, where after many years of struggling to support his family as an employed professional, he had the opportunity to establish his own business and leveraged that to create a better life for our family. Creation of TortoiseClimbing™ is our action to follow in the mold of that example;


3. Making it work - The combined name conveys both the concepts of perseverence, like in the story of the Tortoise, plus the transformational experience of establishing our own business. But making it work is a continuing effort, continually climbing toward greater business success through providing quality nostalgic recorded music, narrations, and written products.

Components/subsidiaries of TortoiseClimbing™

TortoiseClimbing Audio™ uses cutting edge recording technology and talent to beautifully record outstanding quality recordings, including audiobooks;

TortoiseClimbing Publishing™ provides carefully researched and footnoted histories, providing insights into influences behind the songs; and

TortoiseClimbing WebServices™ built and maintains details found on this website as a valuable part of our marketing program.

Historical note. While it was not a subsidiary, for many years we had a cooperative arrangement with K's Pet Care, operating in south-western Prince George's county, MD from 2006-2023. (As of 2024 it is no longer operational.)

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Roots

For insights into the roots from which TortoiseClimbing™ grew, see Our Roots.

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