Aggressive marketting...
Visit www.myspace.com/asparrowssong right now!
I have a new music project I've been working on for a little under a year, which I've named [Sparrow], (yes, the brackets are very important) and in promoting I'm going to stop just shy of being the band that friends everyone on MySpace in an attempt to have billions of "fans" that actually haven't even listened to their music. I've decided I need to be more aggressive about how I promote my music... because, frankly, people don't give enough of a shit about what I'm doing for me to just say "Hey, check this out of you want". Then no one listens and I feel like a failure because if people I KNOW don't care, then people I DON'T KNOW REALLY wont care. Then I give up and another music project goes down the tube.
Well, this project actually means a lot to me, I'm making a fair amount of progress on it and I'm actually liking the songs that are coming out of it. I can't offer a new personality cult to belong to, a cool social status or any of the things people generally look for when they listen to their favorite White Stripes CDs, but I can offer competent, thoughtful, swirly, enveloping music that will, when time comes for vocal recording, offer lyrics that address world affairs, compassion, guilt and disdain over finding ones place in an elite society.
When I finish recording the entirety of the album (some of the finished songs that seem appropriate are being carried over from the Osaka Love Hotel album that never happened) I will have it professionally printed and will be selling it for $10. $4 of those dollars will be donated non-profit organizations that work to provide clean water for people in developing countries. The rest will be divided into 2's - $2 will go to my singer (if she's still on board for the ride), $2 will go to replenishing the album if it magically happens to sell out and the final $2 will go to printing the next release.
So that's all...
Instead of "please listen to it" I am saying "listen to it, or else". Or something. I'm still trying to figure promotion out.
I have a new music project I've been working on for a little under a year, which I've named [Sparrow], (yes, the brackets are very important) and in promoting I'm going to stop just shy of being the band that friends everyone on MySpace in an attempt to have billions of "fans" that actually haven't even listened to their music. I've decided I need to be more aggressive about how I promote my music... because, frankly, people don't give enough of a shit about what I'm doing for me to just say "Hey, check this out of you want". Then no one listens and I feel like a failure because if people I KNOW don't care, then people I DON'T KNOW REALLY wont care. Then I give up and another music project goes down the tube.
Well, this project actually means a lot to me, I'm making a fair amount of progress on it and I'm actually liking the songs that are coming out of it. I can't offer a new personality cult to belong to, a cool social status or any of the things people generally look for when they listen to their favorite White Stripes CDs, but I can offer competent, thoughtful, swirly, enveloping music that will, when time comes for vocal recording, offer lyrics that address world affairs, compassion, guilt and disdain over finding ones place in an elite society.
When I finish recording the entirety of the album (some of the finished songs that seem appropriate are being carried over from the Osaka Love Hotel album that never happened) I will have it professionally printed and will be selling it for $10. $4 of those dollars will be donated non-profit organizations that work to provide clean water for people in developing countries. The rest will be divided into 2's - $2 will go to my singer (if she's still on board for the ride), $2 will go to replenishing the album if it magically happens to sell out and the final $2 will go to printing the next release.
So that's all...
Instead of "please listen to it" I am saying "listen to it, or else". Or something. I'm still trying to figure promotion out.