I started a new page of Facebook called “Home
Recording distribution”, it is a page to help artists like myself who are fed
up with multinationals distributing music at inflated prices, and over loading
us with their narrow choice of musical genre.
Everything is 'packaged' from the CD to the
recording, even the type of reverb they use on the final mix; there is nothing
original they can offer. We are so used to it, to get the plastic wrapper in a
plastic CD cover which is given to us in a plastic bag!
A new 'Cottage Industry' that once had so
much promise and hope - the internet has been high jacked. To produce one’s own
music and getting it ‘out there’ to the world, either for profit or for
interest is not easy. Controls are everywhere.
I listen to people/music I know, people who
have spent their time and energy composing, writing, learning, producing,
recording, editing, re-editing, designing their CD; so much time and effort for
what? For it not to be listened too? For it to be put away while people just go
to the multinationals and buy something that they have ‘heard before’. I do
not think I have bought a CD from a shop in years.
I have made my own recordings for years, I
sold them on the streets, I have sent them through the post....it works! I also
listen to recordings I made of other people, 'field-recordings', ethno
recordings, of local bands, people, in the UK and around the world. They have
more life and originality; they have new ideas and passion than any mass
produced run-of-the-mill factory production.
Today I listened to a Cumbrian flute player
called Rob Rynn, who produced his own CD with his own money by paying studio
time, and working on his own CD design etc. it is good, it is original,
sometimes it is not accurate in tempo, sometimes it is like a live
recording...but it is good and it is different and it stays in my mind...it is
personal. I encourage people to record and upload their music to the Facebook “Home
Recording Distribution” page, and try and sell your work, or interest people in
it. Here is the link and logo:
