I recently commented on a post on the music think tank blog about whether fans want anything from musicians other than their music. My view is that if your music is good enough, then fans will tell you if they want anything else - if your music isn't good enough, if your performance isn't compelling, if you don't move the listener - then no matter how interesting your life is or how awesome your merchandise - nobody cares. What I am seeing in the destruction of music's economic model over the last decade is, funnily enough, more music. Music no longer has to fit the system - music can be what it is, and if it is compelling, it will get out. If you love music then I cannot recommend this movie highly enough - I admit to bawling my eyes out - but by the end I couldn't stop grinning and thinking that everything was going to be alright. Check out the Young at Heart page at Mahalo for more information and take a couple of minutes to watch the trailer below.
We're being featured as the daily download at http://www.isound.com - we believe that they're going to be promoting Identification. I hadn't listened to the track in a while and had forgotten how much I enjoy working to it. It was purpose written to accompany an informational display at a trade stand - something you could have playing constantly that would stay in the background but not drive the presenters mad. You can read my approach to the design of the track here and of course, please do check out iSound if you haven't already.