"Don't let them" and other news.

Almost a year has passed without giving you some news. I am still working on a new album, I already released some tracks on Soundcloud, some videos have been uploaded on YouTube and I got a surprise from the Hubble Space Telescope.

But first, I uploaded my album Wormhole on Jamendo:


Why, you may ask, because I wasn't happy about their site for various reasons. I realized that not many people go to http://elvenheim.bandcamp.com/ to listen or download my music. I got the most public on FreeMusicArchive (FMA), but their site seems dead to me. I uploaded only one track from the album on FMA with a link to bandcamp in the description, but nobody seemed to care about it. So now I wanted to upload the rest of the album on FMA, without success though. The tracks are pending, and stay pending forever no matter what I try to do.

Then I looked back to Jamendo, their site seem to work now and I still have an audience there, much more than on bandcamp. So I decided to upload the album also on Jamendo.

That's it about my last (and already old) album. Now for the new stuff. Yes, I am still working on a new album, but I have no idea when it will be released (it will be released once it's finished).

I won't tell much about the next album, there will be new things, maybe some surprises, but overall I think it will be a nice easy to listen-to experience.

Here is a video of "A fantastic journey", a track for the new album:

Two other new tracks, maybe not for the album : "Glistering Sun" and "On the move again" :




Midicrash Surge sent me a recording of Tinna singing and asked me to do something with it without giving me anything else, not even the tempo :). So this is what i came up with: "Don't let them ..."


Surge did a video for the song:



And now for the surprise : I was watching the video "Clash of the Titans: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered" on the YouTube Channel of Hubble Space Telescope when I suddenly realized that my song "Stars" from "strolling through electronic spaces" was playing during the visualization of the Andromeda galaxy approaching and slamming into our Milky Way (starting at 16:14). But they forgot to mention me, so I told them I was very pleased to have my music featured in the video, and asked them to give me credit. They did, and I got even more happier.



That's about it for now, I hope you enjoy listening!

Jamedo, what have you done?!

Since the 26th of April, Jamendo did a big update. And since... it became worse.

1. You can argue about the colour, I don't really like it. But if you think it will just be about that... Many things seem to go wrong.

2. The player is now attached on the bottom of the window and is not in a separated window as it was before. You can't see the playlist anymore either.

3. You can't comment on an album anymore. You can not rate it either. The search engine became strange, it doesn't work for me at all. Jamendo is now based on tracks only. By the way, you can't download a complete album anymore, you have to download each single track.

4. I liked to see albums from other musicians of my country, well you can't do that anymore.

5. My stats went down. Not that I had much listens, but the few I had dropped to 1 per day since Saturday the 28th. My pageviews went to 0 per day since the 24th (before the update).

My pageviews fell suddenly to 0 per day...

What happened with these statistics? This seems to be true for many other artists. I can't believe that people are not listening to music anymore (or do they as it became more difficult to search for musicians?).

I'm really searchin for something that has been improved, but I don't find anything. At least my widgets to my albums on blogger seem still to work.

Many people are also complaining on Jamendo's facebook sites. On jamendo.fr there are only 16 people who likes the update. It's kind of few for such a big site. Too bad you cannot "dislike" it, I wonder how many people that would be.

Chef Georges explained more about it on his blog. It seems that most of the artists are putting some kind of "ultimatum" to Jamendo.

There are many who are angry about it, and I can understand them. There is a facebook page called Old Jamendo Friends the artists can join to act against this non-respect of Jamendo.

I think that Jamendo will improve their site (for the sake of everyone). If not they will shot themselves a bullet in their head.

Now I'm even more encouraged to not publish my next album for free on Jamendo...

Bye Jamendo, it was nice knowing you...

What happened on Wednesday? - RESOLVED!

Sometimes I check out my statistics on Jamendo. I was surprised when I saw this:

183 listens on one day? What?

Before, my album Winterdust was still on the first place (I don't know why though, I suspect a chinese site to refer constantly on that album). But now, things have changed:

Strolling beats Winterdust

So I suppose (because Jamendo's statistics aren't very clear) that this happened all on last Wednesday. I also saw that quite a lot of listeners were guided to my site on Jamendo from Facebook.

So, my question is : what happened on Wednesday?

EDIT:

I found the answer : Jamendo did a tweet that day about my album "strolling through electronic spaces".

The tweet of Jamendo:

"Shamil Elvenheim allie avec brio l'electro et l'ambient, saupoudrant le tout d'une touche de lounge et d'indus...."

First things first - part four

One day I was playing something on my guitar I liked and gave the piece to Rick End. He composed some lyrics and the result was Litany.

I also reconnected with "Surge" and we exchanged our knowledge and experience. We recorded some of his tracks in a recordstudio with Tinna, later he started to publish his works as "Midicrash". I really spent some dark but good times in the studio listening to "Surges'" gloomy music :

Since then I published two other albums on Jamendo, Waiting in 2009 and strolling through electronic spaces in 2010.