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As our recently released "Twelve Caesars" is the last cd we released on Cold Spring, we - HERR - seem to be having a vacant position in terms of a label. Although I am currently in discussion with several record companies that I remember from back when I was more interested in listening to music than to actually making it, any suggestions from people out there looking to add future HERR releases to their discos are welcome. I've never been in favour of making HERR a collectible item and would prefer if more people listen to it rather than stuffing it in their cabinets of rarities. Since several of our previous albums are now out of print (to my knowledge: Es Regnet das Leben Heraus, The Winter of Constantinople, and, possibly nearly, Vondel's Lucifer), we would appreciate a label interested in re-releasing our older records as well.
For the time being, I have set up this digital download store, which is presently the only one that links directly to HERR. In other words, for those people out there who prefer mp3s over cds, and who'd like to support HERR while doing so, please use the digital download thingy on the HERR myspace.
It would be immensely hypocritical of me to condemn people who 'illegally download' HERR - after all, I met Troy on Soulseek (www.slsknet.org) - but I would like to ask people to refrain from uploading HERR on blogs, or worse, selling it as supposedly legal downloads. No other company, other than the one linked on our myspace, may presume to call itself legal.
One may wonder why I'm setting up such a store in the first place. First, I see no reason why a record company rather than solely the artist, should earn part of these digital downloads, since there is little to no investment. Second, several of our albums are in danger of becoming rarities, and as I don't like (some) species becoming extinct, so should at least the material be available. Third, I have many hours of unreleased music, collected through the years, most of which just doesn't fit on any (usually themed) album. Last, for those people who 'illegally download' music anyway, but still want to support the artist, yet see no reason (or way, in the instance of extinct albums), to buy cumbersome cds, we seem to be offering very little. Personally, I would like to sell some t-shirts for the same reason - obviously, our logo is better than most fashion designers'!
In the end, however, I would much prefer releasing music on disc - for its tangible properties which makes it seem like one purchases a timeless monument, like a book (of course, that's what we thought about cassettes as well - mine are now probably processed into Sainsbury's bags). Which brings me back to the start of this entry, even if a new label requires me to re-master The Winter of Constantinople into a 5.1 channel audio DVD.
4:57 PM
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