No email for me, probably because I am on hold. (Though it's foolish of them to stop sending me promo emails while I am on hold...booster sales tend to lure me back. So there's one on right now?)
I was wondering whether or not to mention those stats. For me 473 artists (average 151) and ahem songs 4846 (average 567). The use of the phrase "fans in your community" gave me a laugh. Oh and "Your 2016 anthem:No More In Thrall: IV. Traurige ?erheni" I have no idea what this is and presume their software just had a meltdown.
Ethan Diamond, CEO of Bandcampannounced today that 100% of their share of proceeds of today's sales (Friday) are going to the ACLU ... plus there are at least 150 other bands and/or labels that are giving to their own chosen organizations today. This morning, I got an email from Irritable Hedgehog saying that proceeds from their sales are going to the SPLC (which I've been a member of since the 80's) today as well. You may find others as you look around. Please consider.
Aarik Danielsen of the Columbia Tribune interviewed me.
And as everybody here is tragically familiar with the rambling nature of my posts, not one person will be surprised when I say that this is Part One of a two-part interview...
Congrats Dave. As I recall, there was a new Miles Davis release (one of the bootlegs maybe), and the Ed staff wrote something like, We guess this is supposed to be a big deal or something. To their credit, they took the suggestion of hiring a writer who actually knew about jazz.
Great article about jazz in the UK and really good Spotify list, The Chapter 7 is NYOP on Bandcamp and some are on E Music, spent a few pound this week on this
Oh bloody hell. An 'Update To The Mosaic Records Community' from Michael Cuscuna:
Dear Mosaic Friend,
In this time and place, the Mosaic business model is becoming harder and harder to sustain in this rapidly changing world. We aren't sure what the future will hold for us, but we want to let all of you know how much we appreciate that your support has allowed us to constantly make our dreams come true with set after set and that we intend to persevere. The way we operate may change but our mandate remains steadfast.
...We are not certain how Mosaic Records will continue going forward or how many more sets we will be able to create and release. We've got a lot of great plans but few resources.
Scott and I want to thank every single person who has supported us, made suggestions, given advice and shown us such love and affection. If you are thinking about acquiring a certain set, now's the time.
got that today - thought about sending it to you when I finally got around to reading it about an hour ago. I have everything I want from them (which is an enormous lot) except the DVD set - which I bought last week.
Following the coming together of rastermusic and NOTON a number of
years ago as raster-noton, the label will soon divide into two separate
entities together.
From this month, raster-noton will be rebranded as raster-media and
will continue to be operated by Olaf Bender, otherwise known as Byetone.
The labels raster-music, raster-index and raster-archive will continue
to release music under the raster-media axis.
NOTON will be controlled by Carsten Nicolai, otherwise known as Alva
Noto, and all of his future releases will appear via the label. Both
will still continue to pursue collaborative projects as raster-noton
however, and in September of this year raster-noton will celebrate its
10-year anniversary at Electric Campfire Festival in Rome.
"The idea to restructure raster-noton has been in the air for some time already," says a statement by Bender and Nicolai.
"We absolutely wanted to celebrate our 20th anniversary in 2016
together without changing anything and tried to conclude this process,
which means the years between 1999 and 2016, with the publication of our
raster-noton. source book 1.
"Now in 2017, we want to go separate ways. The label 'NOTON' will
take care of Alva Noto's musical projects, which includes both his solo
releases as well as his collaborations. On the other hand, 'raster' will
continue the idea of an artistic platform, which will even be extended
with new releases and new artists.
"We think that in the end, this reorganisation is to our mutual
benefit as it has become harder and harder in recent years to meet and
actually work together, not just because we are based in different
cities now, but also because of our busy schedules, which made it all
very complex. In this sense, we think it's more efficient for both of us
to continue separately."
You can find the two labels' websites here and here. You can also read our Baker's Dozen with Byetone from last year here.
I have no clue what this means, but I thought I'd post it anyway:
On April 23, 2017, Technicolor's mp3 licensing program
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Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated.
We thank all of our licensees for their great support in making mp3
the defacto audio codec in the world, during the past two decades.
The development of mp3 started in the late 80s at Fraunhofer IIS,
based on previous development results at the University
Erlangen-Nuremberg. Although there are more efficient audio codecs with
advanced features available today, mp3 is still very popular amongst
consumers. However, most state-of-the-art media services such as
streaming or TV and radio broadcasting use modern ISO-MPEG codecs such
as the AAC family or in the future MPEG-H. Those can deliver more
features and a higher audio quality at much lower bitrates compared to
mp3.
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I have no idea what this is and presume their software just had a meltdown.
This morning, I got an email from Irritable Hedgehog saying that proceeds from their sales are going to the SPLC (which I've been a member of since the 80's) today as well.
You may find others as you look around. Please consider.
Aarik Danielsen of the Columbia Tribune interviewed me.
And as everybody here is tragically familiar with the rambling nature of my posts, not one person will be surprised when I say that this is Part One of a two-part interview...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/arts_life/art_axis/flights-of-fancy-writer-champions-under-the-radar-jazz/article_e87120da-f21b-11e6-abc4-cf0bb2841a49.html
Part Two of the interview hits tomorrow.
http://www.hillarybeattrump.org/
Dave, could you link the second part of your interview? I couldn't find it.
/lazy
http://www.columbiatribune.com/arts_life/art_axis/flights-of-fancy-part-writer-champions-under-the-radar-jazz/article_6578d9c2-f2d7-11e6-b7aa-bbb6453cf17d.html
Cheers.
I am so relieved !
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Great article about jazz in the UK and really good Spotify list, The Chapter 7 is NYOP on Bandcamp and some are on E Music, spent a few pound this week on this
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/15/jazz-london-moses-boyd-united-vibrations
Whole letter here
(plus one of my drum teachers was Steve McCall).
You can listen here.
Raster-Noton Restructures
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