Thursday, March 12, 2009

Meditations now on Last.fm

I discovered that Avaendil had an artist page on Last.fm. Of course I immediately claimed it as mine (since it is), and decided to upload the tracks from Meditations. I uploaded the cover art also, but for some reason it didn't work. I'll try again later.

So now you have another option for listening to the music! Click on the link to go to my artist page. Then you can select the "Albums" tab (or the "Tracks" tab) on the left and listen to the full songs.

You can also "shout" about it!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Kind of quiet around here

I haven't posted in a while.

The download and listener statistics for Meditations are pretty impressive (to me at least...). As of today at 0835 CST on Jamendo there have been 8,517 "listens" and 773 downloads. (I think a "listen" is any time a single track plays, so if someone listened to the whole album online once there would be 9 listens.) Additionally, there have been 880 downloads (from 73 countries!) of the FLAC version torrent from mininova.org.

In total, the album has been downloaded over 1,600 times. I hope people have enjoyed it and shared it. My whole intent in creating Meditations was to provide the album for free, so it could help brighten the day of those who spend some time listening.

Since I published it, a client has paid me with some better orchestral samples than the ones I used on the album. I may go back and revisit a few of the tracks with the better samples...

In other news, I have been working on a new album but progress is slow. Life and work and other composing jobs have taken time away from the project. Look for updates, and perhaps a sneak peak of new pieces from time to time!