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A musician-friend of mine just released an album. I paid my 15€ for it, and it is a good album with brilliant music. What got me down today was that I found out that it had been downloaded illegally from the internet. I am NOT opposing the medium to bring the band closer to people nor the possibility of listening, but since they're not getting anything out of it, after paying the expensive studio-time etc., it's ever so hard to make a buck out of this. And trust me, lots of hard work, tears, sweat and elbow grease is required in this line of work.
I heard that Lady GaGa, after hitting one million downloads on Spotify, got a total of some 15 bucks out of it. LOL!!!! Now, I don't have a planetarium-hat nor some super-freaky shoes and whatnot, penises hanging out (?), so I guess it's kind of a given to admit that that is not a way sufficient enough to feed all the musicians..
Has anyone thought that if you try to make a living out of music, you kinda need the money.. If you're a dentist you wouldn't even consider operating on the patient if they had no money, so what's the difference here? This is our expertise and our way to clear the air, give soul-food, start commotion and so on. Furthermore, if an artist has to work in some shitty office for 40 hours per week to be able to pay rent for example, I'd expect him to be very tired at the end of the week, when you'd be supposed to go throw a gig or to try to drag one single creative thought from your brain to make a song. True, that creativity is a state of mind, but it's not ON all the time for gods sake and, I'd bet my left hand that the office-job will kill the creation in the artist within half a year.
In a civilized and humane world you ought to be able to choose your vocation, since we're not all suited for the same job as the other. Like, some of us prefer red and others blue.
Still, if people will go see live-shows, that'd be terrific. Now, there's a small opportunity to make some money there, but that alone, will never pay the whole band's phonebills and all. Tough luck, I tells ya. Movin' on.
-M.
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Wednesday the 13th, October 2010 AD.
Ok, here's some info regarding our gig in a tram next Wednesday.
Our gig starts at 16:06 and we are going to play in tram 7A which starts at Pasila Railway station, Helsinki. The tram goes all the way to Töölö, to culture cafe Korjaamo. The ride costs 2,50 eur if bought from the driver, 1,80 eur if bought from a ticket vending machine or 2,00 eur if bought via SMS.
At 22:00 we will play a gig at Korjaamo, which is free entry for everybody.
This is going to be something wicked! Tomorrow we are going to build some instruments we are going to use on the gig.
-tmu
Download INERTIA from Mininova.org
Inertia is now fully downloadable as a high-fidelity mp3 torrent on mininova.org.
GO DOWNLOAD IT NOW!!!!
You will need a torrent client software such as uTorrent.
And in case you don't know what this amazing 'torrent' thingy is, go see the entry on Wikipedia.
In case you want to support the fruit of our last years hard work, please send e-mail to notevenproductions (AT) gmail DOT com and order your own CD version of Inertia for a low price of 10eur (+shipping)
Happy downloading and listening!
-teemu
Sunshine and a cup of tea
Definitely for our own, but also for the amusement of others we've just finished recordings for our upcoming first album. T-mu has done a tremendous job at Not Even Productions mixing our album to its fullest potential. A few nods here and little to the left and we're done. The recordings took place in several locations, mainly in Oulu and Tampere though in different studio-like environments. Nonetheless I feel like it's going to sound exactly the way we want it to, and we've -at least I have- enjoyed this whole ride. Still, it's an even higher mountain to climb now if we want -and we do- this album spread and heard as far and in as many a place possible and also if we'd get to play more gigs than before, well that would be just super. The whole let's-make-an-album-thing has been in our heads from the start but truly kicked off last September when I visited T-mu in Tampere. We recorded bases for 10 songs. There was some new songs and some old, slightly altered. Our style has been known for jumping from side to side and borrowing from style to style still maintaining some kind of focal point and consensus. I think. We didn't want this record to be written about, or under one topic, since this whole thing was done in pieces and over time. And even the 600km distances of our band makes us use our imagination and our computers a little more, it was fun and a hugely innovative process. Besides, we decided the album name to be Inertia, which can be extended to be labeled as a pseudo force (in centrifugal things) or a fictional force. So that included I think we had a quite broad field of choice. And because it's a mechanical term it allowed us to try some really fun stuff on the side. I think it's going to be a funny, rockin' little package with shitloads of attitude and g-strings. -M.
Myspace renovation
Nice! Our Myspace has gone through minor (pun intended) renovation and is now.... YELLOW!
Check it out.
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