Hello, a quick note:

My New Age, ethnic fusion album Arva Az a Madar - Lonely Is The Bird is soon available now for download at all the best digital music sites, including iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Amazon and much more.


Enjoy!

Dear Friends,

I am very grateful to all of you who still hang around here, despite that I've been neglecting you lately...

I tell you what happened.

At the beginning, I took the MySpace slogan as it was: "a place for friends". Building my network one by one, checking out each and every profile, before sending a request or approving one. Also after I connected to someone, had a look, a listen, a read at the other person so that I could write a comment about them, about you, and not just post some copy-paste "Hi, nice to meet you, this is me" type of thing. This is what I was doing, you were indeed communicating with the real Andrea Gerak.

I felt great with it, LOVED to find interesting, great people all over the globe, enjoyed my evenings with discovering new music or in other ways creative folks.

Got new friends and fans, my little entourage grew gradually and I was happy about being surrounded with such great persons.

Then something changed (well, obviously I changed something): I thought I should give a try to this heavier self-promotion as an artist, go cold on it and go for some more numbers.

I know this has been working very well for some of my artist friends, getting more CD sales, song downloads etc, they even suggested me to use friend adders. (If you are one of them am I talking about, and happen to read these lines, I thank you for your recommendations and I am truly happy that this MySpace thingy works out well for you that way; I know your music and know you as persons, and you definitely deserve as great audience as possible, so you just please keep on going!)

I tried it and it simply doesn't work for me. Going robotic about it, mechanically pushing "Add", "Approve" etc just put me down, killed the thrill of being connected to people, sucked my energy, developped a feel of guilt in me and eventually caused me withdrawing from this whole thing. As you might have noticed that in the last couple of months I wasn't active here at all, didn't comment back when you sent me something and so on. By now it got so bad that I am hardly even responding to new requests or my most eager fans.

So this is what has happened my friends and this is what I can't do any more.

I decided to get back to what has worked for me and with what I felt good.

It might not will boost my CD sales up to the sky and so on, but I do believe that if I myself am in a really good mood, feel great about what am I doing, I can give more to people of what I am supposed to give as an artist, that will reflect in the response in some way. Maybe I should appear more unapproachable (am I not the "enigmatic Hungarian female voice"? ) and there might come a time when busy secretaries will answer my fan mail - but I believe that I couldn't even get near to that point by neglecting personal relationships and not caring about others in my vicinity. What do you think?

Okay, I have to admit that I generally have a problem with getting overwhelmed by incoming emails, messages and such and don't always answer, that's part of the package at the moment, forgive me for that.
 
And of course I will invite you to my concerts, tell you where to buy my CDs or download songs, watch videos and all that - well heck, wouldn't you expect that from an indie artist? After all, my art is the best way I can give you anything, isn't it? 

Most importantly, I want to be in real communication with you. I'm sure you'll understand that I can't talk with everybody about how's weather here and I am not the one to find when you are bored and just want a chat buddy for 20 minutes - no, sorry. If you are bored, why don't you listen to some music, for example? :-)) 

Hit me up though when you have somehing specific to say to me, I try to be here for you as much as I can.

Now this was a long one, thank you dears again for sticking with me, you are fantastic people, love you all!

Andrea

ps. If you want, find me on Facebook as well  
     yeah, and on Twitter

Now something different for you, as a thank you for sticking around: Beauty of the World

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Most valami mást tartogatok a számotokra, köszönetképpen azért, hogy velem tartotok: A világ minden szépsége

Oh my, my, I am so excited!!!

The other day, my Hubby told me to make my Christmas wish list. He said I shouldn't think about possibilities but should put down EVERYTHING, big and small that I would like to have.

Well I did, and as I can think also big, I listed some great things, such as a getaway from dark&cold Scandinavia to the Caribbean...

Guess what: a few days later I got a call that some friends came together who want to introduce me to a band on a ship in the Caribbean... Now can you believe this? What is even more interesting that my husband didn't secretly contact anybody about it, it just "happened". I simply thought of it, wrote it down and there it was!
 
Imagine, more than a week on a wonderful ship, in the awesome weather with sunshine and sea, away from all kind of whatever the everyday life gives and only dealing with boosting up my creativity (who knows, maybe I start to write my own melodies?), meeting musicians and other such people and work out things with them...  Then I come back, fully pepped up, with who knows what new songs or contracts, concerts in my pocket... Oh, isn't that wonderful?

I should be there this coming Sunday and now I am working on getting the missing money together. The target where I am asking for your help is 1 flight ticket which is 1600.-USD

This is very easy, if EACH of my friends downloads only 1 of my songs for 1.-USD

Download any songs from my website

If you don't find a PayPal link to a particular song you would like to have, send an email with the title to sales{at}andreagerak{dot}com

You can also download any of my 3 albums and YOU set the price:

 Authentic Hungarian Village Music Árva az a madár (Lonely Is The Bird) Madárka, madárka (Little Birdie)

If you simply want to throw something into my Christmas stockings, here it is:



Wow, this will be my best ever Christmas present and I appreciate a lot, if you contribute to it!

Love, Andrea