Hi All,
Mad summer thinking is here! Everybody goes on holiday…..and stops work or other….I’ve had a break doing house stuff-painting, repaired house etc.
Looking forward to Autumn-had one or two musical ideas and recorded them on handheld tape. Continuing with Electronic EP-have to alter some of the mixes when I get back to studio……working on third work today-few bars of drum sounds. Maybe the recent Perseid meteor showers will inspire some ideas, although the tracks for the EP are essentially Astro-Physics and Particle Physics related.
Looking forward to more results from the Large Hadron Colider to get yet more inspiration………..!
Cheers
PS
Hi All,
Dont forget-album ‘Imagination’ out now-Electronic Orchestral!!!!!!!!!!!! What landscape does it sound like?
Find at:
Cheers
Paul
- Dream away…..
Album ‘Imagination’ release (May-June)
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Imagination was conceived by Paul Stokes as a Studio album (Glenmoor Studio’s) containing undercurrents of classical though remaining strongly Electronic and New Age. This is a release from his back catalogue where it is going to be more widely available for download. It is being released by BelieveDigital on many download platforms. Being well received by the public previously on a smaller scale, more people will be able to enjoy the album on major download platforms. In small trials, Imagination has had critical acclaim by the public when played on Internet and Capital Radio etc.
Paul Stokes (Stokes-Herbst) ) track record includes being in bands and writing music for the Media and solo albums. His music can now be found in many countries around the world on film, shorts, advertising etc. Crossrythmns says “here can be found a pile of influences coming together to make something new”. Imagination is Electronica but is Sc-Fi influenced, with crossing of musical boundaries, creating pleasant but creatively inspiring themes. It will pull you out and in!
You are invited to explore perhaps deep parallel worlds or deep intertwining themes which will cause you chase dreams……in your head…… The album is available from most reputable digital download stores including itunes/Musiczeit/BelieveDigital and hundreds of others. Contact details:
Email Paul Stokes: paulstokesx@ntlworld.com
by Stokes-Herbst on October 4, 2009
in Music
Hi All,
I’d like to introduce you to Musiczeit.com who are purveyors of Hi Quality downloadable music. I now have posted 4 albums Cosmic Renditions, Storm, Chthonic Netherworld, and Easy Street up for download. The site claim to be the only one worldwide where you can download albums at full CD Lossless quality and 256K mp3 quality-here’s what they have to say:
“We all jumped for joy when CD came along, right? Great sound quality, no scratches, no messing about. So now what’s happening? Download music is everywhere, and CD is being put out to pasture. But wait, there’s a catch. Most download music is “lossy”. And this means inferior sound quality to CD. MP3, AAC, WMA. It’s all lossy.
We at MusicZeit.com believe you should have the best of both worlds. Instant download access to the music you want, but no loss of quality. That’s why all our albums are available in lossless CD quality as well as top-notch 256K MP3 if you want to listen to things “on the move”. And we don’t do individual tracks. Like you, we feel the music needs to be heard in context, as part of a full album or EP.
You don’t have to compromise in the digital download era. Let your kids get their “quick track fix” on other sites, while you download the full album, full artwork, in full CD quality, from MusicZeit.com
Full albums. Full artwork. Full CD quality. The only way.”
Perhaps they have a persuasive argument? As a composer of music and not spending a lot of hours listening, I’m not sure whether I can comment authoritatively . I swing between the thought that mp3 at the low end sample rate, is all that most people are interested in, and, that maybe those who can be bothered to buy music are more discerning than I think. Speaking personally, I was always interested in as high a quality of sound that I could get. This has carried over to my compositional side where I follow the ‘holy grail’ of top recording quality as standard. Does that make me a an audiophile?-I don’t think so in that I am thinking of the people that would be listening, and hoping that the high end quality that is available relatively easily makes the listening experience a joy-drawing scenes and pictures that only a few decades ago were unheard of.
Returning to musiczeit-good on you and I am sure that the idea will catch-on. You get full CD quality, artwork and at good rates…there is a market here!
Paul Stokes
