{"id":4561,"date":"2021-01-26T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T09:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:48:38","slug":"distrokering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2021\/01\/26\/distrokering\/","title":{"rendered":"Distrokering"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll both be aware by now that I’ve been usefully spending time learning how to record music at home<\/a>, time I’d usually have devoted to live music. I’ve an album-length collection<\/a> under my belt, and have even started playing music on other people’s records<\/a>. One of these is now commercially available<\/a>, and that got me thinking about making my own music more widely available.<\/p>\n

Never one to let the grass grow under my gathering moss, I’ve now finished another album. It’s called These Are Difficult Times<\/em><\/a>. Whereas Locked Down & Blue<\/em><\/a> was a collection of more-or-less conventional blues, soul and rock songs, this new collection These Are Difficult Times<\/em><\/a> is (in the main) an assemblage of longer, largely instrumental pieces in which I expose my inner Rick Wakeman. Yes, it’s all very Six Wives of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table and their Journey to the Centre of the Earth On Acid<\/del> Ice. With banks of old-fashioned-sounding Moog synthesizers and Mellotrons and so progressive-rockily on, in like fashion. It’s appeal, I imagine, will be … er … selective.<\/p>\n

Well, up to a point. The first track on These Are Difficult Times<\/em> is actually a cover version —\u00a0 of Birdland<\/em><\/a>, a jazz-rock piece originally recorded by the band Weather Report on their 1977 album Heavy Weather<\/em>. It’s much the most accessible piece on These Are Difficult Times<\/em>. I have decided to release Birdland<\/em> as a ‘single’ using Distrokid, a music streaming service. This will make it accessible in a variety of formats, and, wonder of wonders, incorporates a licensing agreement that allows one to record cover versions.<\/p>\n

So, if you click on this link<\/a>, Birdland<\/em>\u00a0 — as well as other bits of These Are Difficult Times<\/em> — should be available on Spotify<\/a>, and as well as and, notwithstanding inasmuch as wherefore, (deep breath) Apple Music<\/a>, iTunes<\/a>, Instagram\/Facebook, TikTok\/Resso, Google Play\/YouTube<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Soundtrack by Twitch, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio, ClaroMusica, Saavn, Anghami, KKBox, NetEase (beta), Tencent (beta), Triller (beta), and MediaNet. So, not only have I become a session musician, I’m now a recording artiste<\/em>. Fancy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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