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Simon’s South Island Tour Diary[I'm totally stoked: Simon just emailed me his tour diary. This is the first time a post will be up on The Enright House that wasn't written by myself. Sweet. So without further delays, here's Simon's diary from our South Island tour:]
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music subscription: why eMusic is awesome!Ok, let me come right out and admit it: I used to hear the terms “music subscription” and immediately find myself preoccupied with fighting back the vomit that was starting to claw its way up towards my mouth. Fellow sinners, I have been reborn and have shed my unenlightened ways.
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Derek Sivers, Lali Puna and The Deadly DeathsIf I could actually stand on one single toe long enough to think and utter speech, whilst being forced to name three things I currently love, I might yell out the following three things in agony: [1] Derek Sivers (CEO and founder of CD Baby) Honestly, this man is such a legend: I’ve met too many people who got into music because they loved playing drums, but well-meaning people tell them they need to read some huge book about the business of music and negotiating contracts, cross-collateralization, and points on the agreement. Feeling guilty, they try to go through it but find it boring. Then they start copyrighting all of their songs and trademark their name and set up an LLC. Someone else says they need to have a website, so they try to learn HTML, but someone else says they need to have flash on the site. Then they try to learn flash. The truth is that while all of those things are important, nothing is more important than maintaining your full excitement for what you are doing. If you lose your enthusiasm along the way, things will fail no matter how flashy your site is or if your band name is trademarked. Pay close attention to the compass in your gut. Do the work that’s most exciting to you, because that’s what you will do best. [2] Lali Puna One of my favorite bands ever. So good, so to the point, so city-sidewalk: [3] The Deadly Deaths
I just bought their album a few days ago at Galaxy after having arrived too early at a meeting. I decided to bridge the wait with some good old record shopping, pick up their CD, and it’s been the only playing from my car stereo in days. They are masters at lethargic pop melodies. Check out their website at www.thedeadlydeaths.com.
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Best of 2007… no… err… 2005-08I had this intense desire to create a “favorite songs of 2008″ post, but I ran into an embarrassing obstacle: I haven’t really listened to any music during this past year. Undeniable proof of this lies in the fact that my most played songs in itunes for 2007 have no more than 7 plays. Ha. That’s pretty dire, by any standard. My somewhat belated New Year’s resolution, as a consequence, is to listen to more music in 2008. So, instead of a 2007 Top-10 itunes songs, here are my 20 all-time most played songs on itunes (roughly 2005-2008):
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Help build a winter dome around ChicagoFirst we had the space race with Moscow, now we have a race for the first domed city. Who said the cold war was over? The fight’s on, baby!
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“Driving”: A song by Misfit Mod and The Enright House
Ever heard of Misfit Mod? Well you will. Count on it. Period. Misfit Mod is my friend Sarah’s musical outlet, and honestly? everytime I listen to her music I get rediculously jeleous. Why? Because each and everyone of her songs is an earth-shattering revelation on just how much sonic and emotional depth can still be achieved within the bounds of popular music. Anyhow, before Sarah moved to England a few months ago in order to start her music career, we actually spent a few hours one quiet night creating a song together, called “Driving”. I can’t remember who did what, but the two of us were knee-deep in synths, samplers and feedbacking guitars for most of the evening. And, after eventually taking turns at kicking each other out of the apartment, we both recorded a vocal line without the other person being allowed to hear it. In the end, we had two independent vocal lines, which, to our utter suprise, even worked well enough together to layer them over the top of each other at the end of the song. Download the full 192 bit mp3:
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What’s in store for the next 6-8 weeksI’m about to head off to the States for a five week holiday (Chicago - New York - Chicago). Consequently, things will be a bit quiet in terms of the band until the four of us reconvene in January. However, despite not being able to play shows et cetera, I’ll actually be incredibly busy working on the following: First and foremost I will be adding a lot of interesting and unique content to this website. For one, I will be implementing Bruce Warila’s concept of songpages. However, his idea of what songpages should contain strikes me as rather bland; our way of doing it won’t be. Whereas Warila suggests including standard items, such as who wrote and recorded a song, the lyrics, licensing blurbs and a courtesy song stream in his songpages, I can’t help but think he’s got a solid idea, lacking, ultimately, in enough substantive content to get music enthusiasts seriously interested in the idea. So, the songpages I’m working on will include all of the above, but will also make available media such as videos, live performance mp3s, live and rehearsal videos, prior demo recordings of the song, remixes et cetera. But that’s not even the half of it: The thing I’m most excited about, is creating hand-drawn scores of every song that you will be able to download as PDFs. These scores will sometimes be a collection of guitar tabs, or traditionally notated scores, or graphical scores explaining what sounds occur when and where. They will all be entirely unique, and if I like how they turn out, I might even get them bound affordably and make a super limited edition (maybe 10) available for sale through the website. In addition, every songpage will feature an 8-15 minute “making-of” podcast, including anecdotes, a few secret blunders, as well as segments on song production, instrumentation and song-writing. Finally, some songpages will even go a step further and include downloadable remix packages, containing all the individual instrument and vocal tracks, as well as drum-loops and samples - all as 16 bit wave files. So, if you’re interested in remixing our stuff (and possibly having us include your efforts on our site, or even releasing them as part of upcoming singles or EPs) you will be able to download these remix packs as zip files, import them into your sequencer of choice, and have a go at doing your own thing! So, far from taking a break from The Enright House, I’m simply going to be doing a lot behind-the-scenes activity, which, hopefully, will eventually culminate in one the most involved, content rich, and - fingers crossed - exciting band websites on the web! Five weeks, of course, might well not be enough time to get it all done, but you know what? I’m totally looking forward to trying! :)
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