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Fractals posted this on June 18th, 2010
There – I said it.
Check out : http://www.burningshed.com/store/stevenwilson/collection/65/1391/
To save you the click through, when you get there – it will read
Buy all six CD singles together, get the full collection and pay less postage!
Cover Version 6 is the last in a series of CD singles featuring a cover version and an original by Steven Wilson.
This last CD comes in a special limited edition box which contains Cover Version VI in a picture sleeve, a 12 page booklet of drawings of SW by Hajo Mueller, and 5 empty picture sleeves for all of the previous singles.
As we reach the last copies of this release we have created this special bundle which includes the first 5 CDs in pvc wallets, ready to go into the box.
Cover Version 6 is now only available as part of this special bundle
So – here’s the thing.
You buy each CD as it comes out – over what now – 2 or 3 years – and the 6th is now ONLY available as part of a 6 CD bundle. Translation – don’t bother buying stuff as you go – because you are going to have to buy it all over again anyway.
SHAMEFUL
Fractals posted this on March 12th, 2010
So – how cool is this ….. Burning Shed have opened up an EBay store for rare and collectable music from their stable …
Burning Shed Limited 2010
Fractals posted this on February 28th, 2010
Not sure if I have posted this one for before – and on the run – so no time to look it up – however – been playing with this in the background on itunes for a few weeks now – and it is rather neat.
Definitely worth a ‘looksee’ – the functionality is great the LOOK of the whole thing is horrible – so bad that I assume they are going out of their way for a Jules Verne look – but all said – very clever bit of stuff to attach to an iTunes account near you.
TuneUp | Digital Music Management and Music Discovery for iTunes
Fractals posted this on September 27th, 2009
Having tried to buy ‘The Incident’ from Virgin – (forgetting that they are of course now defunct – even in America) … I was thinking where do you go to but a CD for INSTANT gratification. Bobby G put me on to Best Buy. I looked them up – and will sail down to my local later today – however their online mall caught my eye …
You might find it a little hard to read – but this is the gist : all their albums to date are classified as Progressive Rock – and lo – just as Mr Wilson in the BBC article declares that finally he is ok to think of his stuff as ‘Progressive’ – Best Buy classifies – what must be the Tree’s most Progressive … as Pop.
WT …
Fractals posted this on July 21st, 2009
Fractals posted this on May 29th, 2009
Into my inbox this morning …
Samsung and Bebo seal deal for mobile music and LIVE shows
“Bebo and Samsung Mobile UK have announced a music content partnership. The deal will see Samsung placing music on the Bebo music page, as well as sponsoring a daily music show for the social network.”
“The live events are a bit more interesting. The Samsung Bebo Nights will be held monthly in the Gibson Guitar Studio in London, starting June 1st. The focus will be on rising music acts, with the White Lies and The Maccabees being discussed as the first acts. June 1. The events are intended to extend the reach of Bebo music offline.”
You will of course recall this post:)
Passed on – with thanks to : Patrick M
Fractals posted this on May 22nd, 2009
So some while ago I was working with a team in London and on the tube on the way home, one of the team members and I got to talking about music – you know – as you do.
he told me that his son is in a band.
‘Wow – that’s great’ – I replied
He went on to tell me that they had their web site – and their myspace.
I went home and checked them out.
In fairness – pretty good – dropped him and email to say – heh – heard your son’s band – good stuff.
Jump forward one year. Decided to pop into a record store – you know – those places where people go to buy CDs … found an album by that band. Their first release. It was out. I bought it.
Dear Reader – a truly wonderful debut album – go acquire it.
White Lies
Fractals posted this on January 25th, 2009
Alabama 3 are a band I am in the process of discovering – not sure who exactly put me on to them
[UPDATE, as a message from Mr T - thankyou sir]
“That will have been me then…..I saw them do a blinding gig last year. You should also be listening to the ‘fleet foxes’, ‘Seasick steve’, The killers new album.’day and age’ and although i know you are not a fan…ac/dc – ‘black ice’.”
Stephen x
I hadn’t listened to them until today. Good stuff. So I looked around a little at their web site … interesting. Thought you might be interested in this small item – kind of goes back to this debate on JGM – which in turn references this article
From Their Web Site :
MANIFESTO
Let’s talk business. Let’s talk about the MUSIC business, and let’s talk about DEATH.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the DEATH of the CD, the DEATH of record shops, the DEATH of record companies (hurrah!), while the record companies themselves have been talking about the DEATH of MUSIC (by which they mean the DEATH of profit margins). Anybody who remembers Peter and the Test Tube Babies- you know who you are- will call to mind that mordant slogan: ‘Home Taping is Killing Music’. And anybody who remembers our screamingly camp and fiercely intelligent friend Jeff, God rest his soul, will remember the patch on his leather jacket which said ‘ Home Fucking is Killing Prostitution’.
Digital downloads and file – sharing have made shiny pieces of plastic virtually redundant; prices for CD’s have been slashed by 50% and the companies are still hemorrhaging money. Groucho Marx historically said ‘ he who controls the means of production controls pop music’ but the technology for pressing, playing, recording and distributing music is now within reach of anyone with a PC and a broadband connection. The average asbo-dodger from Chiswick now has the technology now to record and disseminate an album with all the production values of Phil Collins’ ‘In the Air Tonight from his bedroom. Which begs the question ‘What exactly are record companies for?’.
Previously, these loan sharks justified their racket on their purchase over the hardware of manufacture and distribution, but, like the mercurial policeman in Terminator three, the machine has gone soft, melted through their fingers, and stabbed them in the arse. Late, and unfashionable gatecrashers at the digital party, Sony et al have been desperately trying to pimp and police the shadowy domain of Cyberspace. They might as well try to set up a Neighborhood Watch scheme in Narnia.
Now we have a hoo – ha over Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Kate Nash going supernova from their bedrooms, the entire apparatus of the Industry replaced by a webcam, a Myspace page and a couple of guitars. On closer examination, however, we find that these cyber -anarchists have had considerable promotional assistance from their labels. The spectacle of democracy has once again been carefully stage – managed; The devil’s best trick was convincing people he didn’t exist.
What is to be Done? Is it possible to circumvent the Industry, and short-circuit the Machine? We’re going to find out…
musicman posted this on January 25th, 2009
Equinux, and Mac only – but who uses a PC anyway ?
.. and it is all software to analyze, identify and name your tunes. I haven’t bought software for a long time – but for this I made an exception. Not ALWAYS what you expect … but very, VERY – good.
Check it out.
musicman posted this on December 7th, 2008
NoiseTrade.com is a new site that I was told about through a californian connection. Her email to me (and I assume a lot of others) runs as follows …
Just when you thought you had heard everything ….something new comes along. There is a new music effort out of Nashville that really reminds me of the first time someone from MIT sent me a link to a “brand new website” called FaceBook. Yes. I joined that and it looks like a lot of other people did, too.
Now, a brilliant young musician named David Mead has turned me on to a new site called www.NoiseTrade.com. We predict that this will turn the music industry on its ear. It is very simple, you go to a link like this one:
https://www.noisetrade.com/davidmead
and you can either recommend the record to five people and get it for free OR you can pay what you want.
I chose to pay and recommend privately because David Mead has offered to help us create a DVD for our Literacy Center Education Network non-profit called Lullabies for Literacy. He is also going to donate a portion of the profits from his next tour to us.
But the absolute best part is David Mead’s music. I can’t listen to his song called “Little Boats” without crying. It is so evocative of a little child moving between two parents. Like all his songs, it is incredibly beautiful and emotionally powerful.
So, I encourage you to give it a try. Don’t forget to tell your musician friends about it!
With joy and love, I send Season’s Greetings from the Literacy Center Education Network (www.literacycenter.net) ! In 2008, we had 35 million page views from children in 220 countries, so we have a lot to be grateful for.
I tried the link she sent of Davd Meade’s stuff – it wasn’t available. That aside – the site seems to offer another way for new music to get to the masses.
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