Dancing between projects at the moment. Certainly the trip to Europe is the main business, but there’s quite a few re-issues as well. I have covered Cuisine, that’s been sent over to the record label at which point I have no real input. Elvis has left the building.
So then to Rhine – recorded 2013-2015. That was a thumb drive, appropriate at that post-CD era – it included several versions of the album, bonus tracks, video clips and so on. The label offer is to create a CD – now the antique container. Hmmmm. So how do we market a smaller version of the original format… that’s the puzzle. Could be a double CD, but really the issue is who has a CD player these days? Who has a computer that can load CDs these days?
I did a small non-scientific survey on Mastodon. The bias here would be to techie people of a certain era – but it is better than nothing. Actually most people look like they’d rip the tracks straight off the CD.
The album is up on BandCamp already. So all this adds up to a severe case of value-add. This will have to be Rhine++ with much more on offer for the 10th anniversary. The label agrees – it makes no sense to make a CD+ when the internet already ate that idea back in 1990 something or other.
At the top of this page you might see a tiny little symbol up in the menus. No use clicking it now… you’ll just get a page missing. But that’s where Rhine++ will go some time this year.
I already mentioned that the 2013 code name for Rhine was My Puppy Dog Face, and there was a track under that name. (It was a phrase I heard some of my university students use when admiring a certain actor). I have located the rough of that ditty. It will be heard. There are many out takes over those years. Some of the Adelaide performance in 2013 was from Rhine. There are videos that go with some of it. Perhaps we could have a binaural edition – some already was on the ATMOS album. Will it be pay walled?
All of this takes time especially as there’s live shows to rehearse. But I just want to get across that there will be much effort in making this worth your while. Ask any questions… guide the process …
