Alfvaen

• Bat for Lashes “Trophy”
• Jackalope “Pretty Life”
• Stateless “Ariel,” and “Matilda”
• Dragonette “Don’t Be Funny”
• The Kills “Sour Cherry”
• Pati Yang “All That is Thirst”
• Johnny Hollow “This Hollow World”
• Domenica “Luxury”           
• Johnny Hollow “Nova Heart”
• Austra “Lose It”
• Madison “Sweet Life (Lost Girls Mix)”
• The Hundred in the Hands “Dressed in Dresden”
• The Pack AD “Sirens”
• Agnes Obel “Close Watch”
• Sharon Van Etten “Serpents”

Everything but the Pati Yang are available on iTunes Canada if you're interested in replicating it. Certainly the show has introduced me to some great bands like Austra (whose full album you really need to buy - just saying).

Current Mood: okay

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/05/last-kickstarter-post.html

We're in the last four days of Amanda's Kickstarter.

Over the last almost-a-month of the Kickstarter she's gathered a huge amount of support, set records for what crowdfunding can do, made the news internationally,  and she is now planning a giant webcast block party in Brooklyn on Thursday night for the people who supported the project and to count down to 11:59 when the Kickstarter ends and she starts to play.

She's certainly got enough supporters, and she's already well exceeded her goal and is somewhere off into the land beyond her wildest dreams. (As I write this she's 900% funded, and looks on course to make this a million dollar Kickstarter.) But I still thought I'd stick something up here, in the last few days, because...

We put together the Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Kickstarter last year, to raise the money to professionally record the West Coast tour we did in November. We raised a lot more money from the Kickstarter than we had expected, so we made everything we could even better than anyone had expected. The double CD we had planned to do became a beautiful triple CD package, for example, and then we did a special super secret bonus CD with a banana on it to go along with that - as well as over two additional hours of extra material we released digitally for all the supporters. We worked very hard to make sure that everyone who supported us got something better than they had thought they were getting when they signed up.

And when the stuff started showing up in people's mailboxes and they started posting happy photographs of their stuff (like these...)




...then people here and on Twitter and on Tumblr started sending me sad messages, telling me they wished they had supported the Kickstarter, they'd missed it as they hadn't seen it, or had forgotten, or were broke at the time -- but was it too late to get the stuff?  I wrote back a lot, and said yes, I was sorry but it was too late. We'd only made enough for the Kickstarter backers.

(We do plan to release An Evening With Neil and Amanda commercially, probably towards the end of the year. And it'll be a nice package, but it won't be what the Kickstarter folk got. That was special, and it was just for them.)

Amanda will be releasing a version of her new CD to the public in September. That's the one you'll be able to buy at your local store. But the two CD set inside a book (the blue thing on the right), or the quadruple vinyl in its box, or whatever else she decides to throw in to the other levels, the art-book she's making -- that stuff will only exist for Kickstarter.  If you want it, or any of the other rewards (down to the $1 reward that gets you the whole album digitally when it comes out, which I promise will be significantly cheaper than it'll be on iTunes) then this is really just a reminder that you only have four days to click on the Kickstarter link and support it...



...

Amanda did a post the other day on her blog and for backers, explaining that, no, a million dollar Kickstarter wasn't actually going to make her rich. People are signing up for things, she'll make the things and provide them, but she doesn't get to put a million dollars into a swimming pool and then throw it into the air, like Uncle Scrooge. It's not tax-free donations, it's people signing up for services.

So, to clarify:

The Kickstarter exists to fund a CD release (to the public, not Kickstarter supporters) and a tour (ditto).

The Kickstarter money funds the studio and promotional costs (just as a record label might have done). The business model isn't, Make Money From 20,000 people. It's Use 20,000 people to crowdfund the costs of manufacturing and distributing and promoting a CD and a tour to the General Public. And then get rich from that.

You'd think a band who took their video and studio and promotional budget from a record label and used it as income instead of as an investment in their future were being pretty shortsighted. That's the Kickstarter money: it's a video and promotional and design and manufacturing and touring budget. That's what it's for.


...

There. That's the very last post about Amanda's Kickstarter, unless I start blogging from a rooftop in Brooklyn when it's all over, as the NYPD haul Amanda and the Grand Theft Orchestra away. She says they have all the permits in place for a midnight rooftop gig, and they've even hired the police to block off a road and so on. I just think of the Beatles on the roof of the Apple building, and the legion of uniformed cops who appeared to make them stop...

Enjoy!

Originally published at A.M. Dellamonica. You can comment here or there.

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• Sat, 23:40: Google knows where to find good barbecue! http://t.co/lz7h79Io
• Sat, 23:45: http://t.co/cqEN59JH Bought a print of this from Ursula Vernon today at ConQuesT.

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Desert Island Track 11: An Ending (Ascent), Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois, Apollo

An inevitable conclusion. When I die, several hundred years from now, it will be while listening to this record. Oh, Eno, what happened to you? Can I take the ProTools away from you so you can start making music like this again?

I generally like trance remixes of things, because I like trance, but the trance remixes of this piece on YouTube baffle me. E.g., the Leama & Moor mix.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23834712593

Desert Island Track 10: “Polar Bear”, Ride, Nowhere

Shoegaze, heavy vibro effect on the guitar, and a Salinger-inspired lyric.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23831242430

Desert Island Track 9: “Ceremony”, Galaxie 500, On Fire

A sublime cover of a great song. I’ve never been interested in anything else the band has done, which surprises me given how much I love this cover. The rest of On Fire leaves me flat. Great drummer, IMO. Here’s a live performance from about the time the recording was released.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23827960248

Desert Island Track 8: “Hoppípolla”, Sigur Rós, Takk…

I’m allowed a second really popular choice, right? Takk is the only record of theirs that I really like start to finish, though possibly ( ) also rates for me.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23824680737

Desert Island Track 7: “Everything Merges with the Night”, Brian Eno, Another Green World

Eno’s second appearance and the second track from AGW, which I would also take with me to the deserted island if I could. Okay, you want a straight digitally remastered rip instead of vinyl through speakers, you failing-to-appreciate-analog-noise clod? Here.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23821280570

Desert Island Track 6: “The Big Ship”, Brian Eno, Another Green World

A transcendent experience long ago means this track will forever make me shiver when it reaches its climax.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23817903081

Desert Island Track 5: “Airscape”, Robyn Hitchcock, Element of Light

Robyn appears twice in my desert island list! Glass armonica, backwards guitar solo, lyrics that touch on all of Robyn’s themes. I love every moment of this song. You can get this on the Yep Roc boxed set which includes Fegmania for the complete chiming Rickenbacker psychedelic early Robyn experience.

Today, I spent a great deal of time taking care of various aspects of dealing with Kickstarter rewards to send out to people, so here’s a quick status update on that!

Those of you who supported the project, if you bought in on any reward tier that entitles you to Faerie Blood, you should be getting access to a big ol’ pile of digital versions of the cover art real soon now. Dara’s spinning off a huge assortment of resolutions, to cover not only computers but a variety of mobile devices as well!

Meanwhile, now that we have the confirmed final list of backers, we’re getting all the names into the new edition of Faerie Blood so that Dara can finish up the layout of the print and PDF versions, and I can put together the epub and mobi and any other versions we’re going to spin off.

I will also soon be working on deploying “The Blood of the Land” in digital form to all backers entitled to that, too.

A huge chunk of today went as well to organizing all my backer data and breaking it down by rewards, so that I have a clear list of who all gets what–and specifically, how many print copies I’ll need of both books, how many postcards, and how many posters. I am pleased to report that my original project estimate of about 50 print copies is about right, with some wiggle room for a few extra copies left over. Which will serve as my very first copies I’ll be able to make available to folks who didn’t get in on the Kickstarter in time!

And, I was pleased to be able to send off the first payment for art delivered to Kiri Moth. SO EXCITING. Huge, HUGE thanks go out to all of you out there who’ve made it possible for me to get Kiri to do such gorgeous work!

No actual writing done today–but then, all of this project work needed doing as well, so I consider it a productive day indeed! Tomorrow there will be some Folklife, but there will also be working on Bone Walker!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

spiffikins

Looking back at our own efforts, we had lots of battles :) I've love to hear how you applied these rules to situations where your son didn't want to do something, like have his bath or get dressed/put his shoes on for school or participate in the day to day activities of helping out (setting the table, doing dishes, doing homework) - it seems we always had conflict, and the majority of it with my brother was getting him to do something that he didn't want to do, but that needed to be done.

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Desert Island Track 4: “Autumn is Your Last Chance”, Robyn Hitchcock, I Often Dream of Trains.

Only because I can’t take the entire album. Try a recent live performance.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23811167239

Desert Island Track 3: “Private Universe”, Jon Hopkins, Opalescent

From his first recording, which is ambient electronic with pop song structures. Everything he’s done since has been progressively less & less interesting, unfortunately, but this record is a gem. Here’s a fascinating remix of “Private Universe” I discovered while hunting up a YouTube link for this.

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23807770617

Desert Island Track 2: “Bittersweet Symphony”, The Verve, Urban Hymns

I’m allowed a really popular choice, right?

http://ceejbot.tumblr.com/post/23804853884

Desert Island Tracks, v2 11 songs I’d take to a deserted island with me. It’s supposed to be 10, but it was brutal enough getting it down to 10. I’ll stagger ‘em through the day.

Track 1: “Knuddelmaus”, Ulrich Schnauss, Far Away Trains Passing By

Maybe I listen to “A Letter from Home” on A Strangely Isolated Place more often, but this is a guaranteed mood-lifter for me.

• Sat, 02:01: From the opening ceremonies, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller presented with mugs, figurines, and (by me) bottle of wine. http://t.co/VLuar5WK

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