Intrroducing Ghost6 fro the 7Ghosts CD. featuring Emma Koretz and Heemi Walker on vocals, and featuring the famous Fairfield College music department rubbish bin!
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The Drumming Zone
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From the Pot/Kettle/Black CD (buy it here)
Riverdragon..the story
(Dedicated to staff and students at Fairfield College).Ironic that this song should get released at this time (it wasnt a plan at all).The song has its origins at a time when FFC was a different place that it is now. Specifically, it was origianlly written as the central song under the title “song of the river” in the school musical “riverdragon”,hence the name change when it came to be re-recorded.
Fairfield has long had a tradition of writing, producing and performing its own shows, of which riverdragon was one of the first with faville involved as musical director. The original harmonic structure appeared one sunny afternoon in Whyte st, Hamilton some time around 1998. As was always the plan, the song evolved through the pre-production phase and was initially recorded by the house band for the show.
Over time the original song sped up, lost its jazz trumpet flavourings, and added a whole new section at the end, with a guitar solo composed by Grant Blackler. The feel and instrumentation moved into country-rock territory-where it appears quite comfortable.
When dmy started doing gigs in 2003, riverdragon began life as a ‘filler’ track, but rapidly became a live favourite, even though Faville was keen to dump it. Eventually it was decided to re-record it, as the version that evolved had become quite different from the original. the song is dedicated to the staff and students of Fairfield college, past and present. Forward to the future.
Riverdragon (original version) released 2002
Vocals; Sehai Orgad
Guitar: Bana Puru
Drums: AJ Hohaia
Trumpet: Brad Kerr
Bass; Sarah Te Hira
composed by Hohaia/Kerr/Te Hira/Puru/Orgad/Faville
Riverdragon (new version) released 2011
Vocals; Shaye Simpson
Guitars; Grant Blackler
Bass/Keyboards/Drums; Trevor Faville
production Trevor Faville/dan Howard
Sampler re-released!
And then there was….. Two!
Thats right. the nice folks from the DIYN netlabel have released a second compilation of electronic/ambient music. DateMonthYear’s track on this is “work” from the Pot/Kettle/Black CD.
Its a free download, folks!
http://diymusicians.wordpress.com/music/
copy and paste, folks…I still cant get the link function to function!
Album cover for "two"
One gets a review!
The compilation “One” featuring the track Prelude gets its first review!
haaaah still cant add links properly!
heres the url to copy and paste
http://www.oxyfication.net/headline/one-various-artists/
Diym new album!
This first compilation features 27 different contributions from artists living all over the world. Each artist brings their own unique aesthetic to the album. We hope you enjoy the music!
Featuring the DateMonthYear track “prelude” Heres the vid!
Here’s the link for the album
http://diymusicians.wordpress.com/music/
Bands are a waste of time
One of the central DateMonthYear operating prinicples is that it is “not a band” which perhaps might deserve a bit of explaining.
The first idea is about the death of “the band” in modern music. This first became apparent with the advent of reality TV “bands” made up of faces who were competent enough singers to deliver the goods, but not experienced enough professionals to question where the money was . Older types everywhere could be heard gasping “…thats not a BAND, a BAND has real musicians playing real music…etc”. When you scratch the surface, what those purists were expecting from a “band” was a self contained musical unit based on the 60s models, 3-5 men (usually), gifted musicans/songwriters, good looking, anti-establishment…the list goes one and on, and becomes quite a narrow set of constraints. What the pop idol bands did was pretty much explode a myth- anyone could be a “band” simply by virtue of saying that you are, and plainly the whole concept is of most comfort to the industry that built up around it.Look at the example of Ian Stewart, who played piano for the Rolling Stones from the very beginning, but was never in any “band” photos, covers, etc because management deemed him unworthy of the status of “band member”.
A second point has to do with musical input. And we come to the sad case of Lol Tolhurst of The Cure who ended up being sacked because of incompetance but was legally able to go down fighting by claiming his member ship to the band entitiled him to all sorts of things (he did lose the case, though). the point is this, though- why would you want someone around who is not making a worthwhile contibution? why should that person be legally entitled to fight for his or her status when their musical contribution is not valuable? Consider the also tragic case of the Smiths, who never (it would seem) formalised their band agreements and ended up in court suing each other for royalties. In both these cases ( and, no doubt many others) the constraints of being ‘in the band’ backfired quite badly.
DateMonthYear presents an alternative arrangement. People are invited to make a contribution, and the level of conribution decrees their level of committment and financial return. Plainly, the best income a musican can make is as a songwriter, and so for DateMonthYear, level of contributrion determines a cut in songwriting. This is a flexible process arrived at by open negotiation and works very well indeed, provided all concerned communicate clearly.
What this means is that DateMonthYear’s sound can develop, expand or contract depending on those contributing. the effect is that the music can end up being full of surprises. Witness the style shift from the versions of Ghost5 and Ghost6 on 7Ghosts to their alternives on theGreatDateMonthYearGuitaRemixChallenge
Pot/Kettle/Black
Pot/Kettle/Black
After a protracted wait, and a not inconsiderable amount of drama,this fourth album from “Anti band” DateMonthYear has been released.
Spokesman Faville who is CEO of DateMonthYear, and convenor of the central committee of influence, is sticking resolutely to his contention that DMY is “not a band” and alludes to the contribution of the other central committe members Grant Blackler and Shaye Simpson as ” a way of doing things”.
The CD is over one hour long- a double album in another era- and loosely fits into that lost 70s idea of the concept album, dealing with the pressures and issues of the everyday life of the early 21st century western citizen- work, stress, traffic, mortgage and all the rest. An early rejected title was “the drama of the mundane”
Certainly the open ended approach has meant for a great deal of input from non-committee members, such as Saxophonist Kushal Talele, Oboist Jenny Johnson, and vocalist Emma Koretz.
Key contributions also came from Bass player Jeremy Graham, who made a huge contribution to the Cds middle and end stages, and co-producer Dan Howard.
The music also embraces an eclectic nature from the 13 minute opening epic “30Something” through the country-tinged “Awake” and the pop of “P.S.1.2″.
Pot/Kettle/Black will be available internationally though CDbaby and through itunes.
