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The band has played charity concerts at Pine Lake Middle School and PCMS to raise money and awareness for the school's cause of "Loose Change to Loosen Chains". The $ 10,000 that was generated was donated to the
International Justice Mission (IJM) to help in their work of freeing the millions of
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was self-produced by
Barcelona and Brian Eichelberger, a close friend of the band and former member. Michael H. Brauer, a two-time Grammy winner for his work with artists such as Coldplay and John Mayer, mixed the album. The band has since parted ways with
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came to realize that he worked better as part of a band. The friends created a music ensemble and called themselves
Barcelona. Fennell described the band's sound when he stated that, "e classify our music style as piano rock."
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re-mixed "Absolutes" and
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modern-day slaves around the globe. On November 5, 2010, the band joined
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