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Hi everybody,
it´s interesting to read all the different
approaches towards a "record-release" these days. In my opinion this
variety shows the biggest benefit of being independent from the music industry
as it was in the old days: today everybody can do what he/she likes
and either way is possible. Like Rick wrote, it´s the artist and
his/her work that is most important. Once the artist has created a piece of art,
there are multiple choices how to promote and sell this art the way he/she
likes.
With my meditation ambient looping project Zen
Hanami for example, I go in 2 directions: As the music was mainly
conceived for yoga lessons or meditation courses (with each track being
15:00 minutes), I learned, that most Yoga centers do like a physical CD, so I
produce a small amount of physical CDs (btw thanks Krispen, for the
'Kunaki' link - that´s very interesting).
But then some people wrote to me that they would
prefer shorter tracks for just listening.
So, I remixed some tracks and made a "normal" album with 10 shorter tracks and
put that to digital distribution only by CD Baby (and thus to i-tunes,
Amazon, etc.), which works fine as a "modern", non-physical
release.
And, like Per said, it´s a good thing to have a
release available for an unlimited time period (unlike the catalogues of
the music industry). When I had releases with the music industry, I had most of
the sales in the first 2-4 month and after that a constant drop till the album
was deleted from their catalogue. Now, with digital releases my audience is
slowly building up and I do have more downloads of my tracks the longer
they are available at the download platforms.
What I still miss on the web are sites
(or better one "reference"-site like Wikipedia) that do reviews of only
downloadable music. I have contacted many platforms that do reviews, but they
all wrote back, that they do reviews only for physical CDs - I think that´s a
bit obsolete nowadays.
Ingo Ito
Ingo Ito
website: www.itofarm.com myspace: www.myspace.com/ingoito blog: www.itofarm.blogspot.com/ last.fm: www.lastfm.de/music/Ingo+Ito we7: www.we7.com/public/artistDetails/Ingo-Ito?artistId=264 facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Ingo-Ito/6469662235 CD Baby: www.cdbaby.com/cd/zenhanami
Apple i-tunes Store: www.itunes.com/zenhanami
Amazon Download Store: www.amazon.com/Reflection-1/dp/B001BIL0NQ/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1214567210&sr=8-10 payplay.fm : www.payplay.fm/zenhanami ----- Original Message -----
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