Early 2011, Facebook was flooded with people who used the online-game ‘Make your own album cover’ – also known as: ‘Wikipedia names your band’, where people clicked on a random quote, photo, and Wikipedia page – to create their own album cover, and posted them on their wall. Few got as many reactions as the album cover of producer Guido Aalbers Zwolle, Netherlands, who teamed up with numerous artists to create not one, but two albums; the first called You May Never Know What Happiness Is, the second, recorded in merely two weeks in an old theatre in Kampen; Desire The Reckless. For a non-existent band and the non-existent album ‘You May Never Know What Happiness Is’, in the space of a couple of hours dozens of befriended musicians and other creative minds signed up to actually make the album a reality. After reaction number forty, Aalbers decided to take the plunge, and ‘Lorrainville’ was born. On 2 October 2011 the song “A Heart That Is Lost Can Not Mend” was recorded. ‘The album has not become a compilation album. The cover is the source of inspiration. ‘You May Never Know What Happiness Is’ is a melancholy singer/songwriter album. Americana with, as references, the quieter work of Ryan Adams, Elliott Smith and maybe even Ray LaMontagne.’ Guido says. ‘But the project has always been open for ideas and suggestions’. Everyone could send in songs. Nearly 90 songs were submitted. ‘We want to use the creativity of everyone who signs up. Lorrainville belongs to everyone who