Adriane Appearing on Hollow Earth Radio

8 08 2009

Tomorrow Morning, Sunday August 9 at 10AM, I’ll be appearing on the internets. I’ll be joining David Newman on Hollow Earth Radio for his show “Under the Influence”. Dave’s show is described as following “the development of musical ideas across time, space, and genre.” We’ll be playing some tracks, including ones from my newly released Morning Glow album and having a morning chat. I am really looking forward to it; this will be my first invitation to appear on the radio for this release.

I invite you to join us and tune in!





Morning Glow Officially Unleashed

4 08 2009

Wow! Today is the day. On this lovely Tuesday “Morning Glow” is finally released. After all the toiling, false starts and take after re-take – I am pleased to finally offer my latest album for sale. It’s available through most of the major download retailers such as the iTunes store, Amazon.com and eMusic. If you want a hardcopy of the CD, you can also mail order it through IndiePool or mail order it through Amazon.ca.

Finally, if you want to get it brought into your local CD shop you should be able to special order it through HMV.

If you like it, don’t keep it to yourself! Indie DIY artists such as myself really rely on word-of-mouth to generate sales. Also, anybody feeling keen on it are encouraged to review it in online shops such as iTunes. Every little bit helps! :-)





Have You Read The Lefsetz Letter?

3 08 2009

Lately I think a lot about the music industry. In a way, it’s become sort of a job requirement. Being mainly DIY at the minute, nobody else is going to figure it out for me… so I find myself pondering the business while standing in the shower or surfing music blogs a lot more than I used to. Truth is, there is a pretty big shift happening right now.

While trying to get my bearings, my most excellent friend Anomalous Disturbances introduced to the Bob Lefsetz blog, the “Lefsetz Letter“. He writes this semi-radical, forward-thinking blog from the point of view of an industry veteran who’s not afraid to shoot from the hip. He often suggests industry changes, making the big business status quo seem like a sick puppy taking its dying last few breaths. (Except people feel exceptionally sorry for sick puppies.) But in amongst the strongly worded posts, he’s stacked up some definite wisdom… you might even say some of it is downright enlightening.

Being new to the biz, I admit I am sometimes bemused by the seismic shift taking place in music. Thankfully us newbs can turn to industry bloggers for direction or inspiration. If you haven’t already read it, I suggest you definitely check out Bob’s blog.





Free MP3 Monday at Analog Suicide

21 07 2009

For those of you who missed it yesterday on my Twitter, one of my tracks was included in Tara Busch’s new weekly Free MP3 Monday. Tara Busch, for the uninitiated, does the Analog Suicide blog and is a fellow female Electronica artist. Her new album, Pilfershire Lane on Tummy Touch Records is hot off the presses and also comes in a fun limited edition box set. Recently she also did an official remix for Bat for Lashes‘ wonderful single “Daniel” and documented her process on youtube. (Pretty darn cool Tara!)

Head over to Tara’s site to grab your own copy of the Free MP3s from Monday, including my track “So Beautiful” which is the album opener to Morning Glow.





Imogen Heap Album Artwork Contest Awesomeness

13 07 2009

Well, now that it’s posted elsewhere, I might as well tell you… I’m a winner! No, not in the not-a-loser highschool way, but in the you-won-a-contest sort of way. Now, as anybody who knows me knows, I do NOT win stuff. I am very lucky in many ways, but that isn’t usually one of them. So that is pretty exciting.

What happened was: Imogen Heap, in all her brilliant inventiveness, invited her followers on Twitter to submit photos via Flickr for use in her album artwork project. She selected a handful of winning entries and to my complete amazement, one of my photos was chosen out of a thousand entries or so! It delights me to think I get to contribute in a tiny way to Imogen’s new album, titled “Ellipse”. I really dig her stuff, and I can’t wait to see and hear the new release.

If you’re dying to hear it too, then listen to Imogen’s new single “First Train Home” at Stereogum.

The photos selected even earn a groovy cash prize. It’s amusing that, technically, the first outside record company cheque I will ever receive in my life will be for a photograph. I suppose this is also the first time I’ve ever sold a photograph. So Imogen, you are customer #1! Thanks Immi!

In a strange twist of fate, Imogen’s album is actually coming out in the same month as mine… am definitely in good company for August releases by chicks rockin’ the synth. :-)

Here is the photo that was selected:

Cherry Blossoms