A nice pre-release piece on Demons was published today on Spin.com, with a mention of what we have planned for Sing In My Meadow -Volume 3.
Remember to make your pre-order before Tuesday (Jan 18th) in order to take advantage of the discounts. And be sure to check out the Clubhouse Subscription.
A final reminder that the pre-order period for Demons ends on Tuesday (January 18th). So all of those awesome discounts will disappear (the various bundles will still be available and they’ll still be discounted, but the discounts won’t be as awesome). In any case, if your interested in the album, now is the time to act and to save a few coins.
In case you haven’t kept up on the Demons blogs here are the links to past blogs, which include some thoughts about Vic and his songs as well as lots of music:
It’s been our experience that the best time of year to visit any city in the North East is February….so we have a little jaunt planned to NYC for the second week of the month. We’ll be performing full shows at the very intimate City Winery on Feb 7th and 8th. We’ll be performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on February 9th and we’ll be part of a much larger celebration of Neil Young’s music at Carnegie Hall on February 10th. So if you love those bleak, grey, cold as heck, deep-winter months as much as we do, plan a trip to NYC and put us on your itinerary. Bring your woolies.
Also, remember to pre-order your copy of Demons…the pre-order sales end on January 18th.
Just a reminder that our new album Demons is now available for pre-order. There are a lot of different packages to choose from and some of the special items that we are offering are; a seven song Bonus Track digital EP; a limited edition Audiophile vinyl edition of the album; and a limited edition Demons t-shirt. All of the packages are discounted and no matter which package you choose you will receive a digital version of the album on January 18th, which is the day that your order will be sent to you. The street date for the album is February 15th, so by ordering through us you will be receiving the album a month earlier than the fool next door. Also, be sure to check out the Clubhouse Subscription that gets you all of the downloadable music on our site, including Demons, and much more.
Here is a track from Demons to tweak your interest….this will be the big number one smash hit radio single…I’m pretty sure that the cast of Glee will be including it in their next season:
We are now taking pre-orders for our new album Demons (Volume 2 of The Nomad Series). We will be shipping all pre-orders on January 18th (any vinyl orders will be shipped one week later). All pre-orders, of any format, include a free digital download of the album which will be available to all pre-order customers on January 18th. There are a few pre-order packages to choose from (all of them will save you money) and you can also choose to include the limited edition Demons t-shirt as well as the digital only, seven song bonus track EP. So please check out the pre-order page and choose what is best for you…and thanks, once again, for paying attention.
Our new album Demons and the accompanying seven song bonus track EP are now available for those of you with a Clubhouse Subscription. For those of you without a subscription, we will be starting pre-orders for the album later this week.
If you haven’t looked in to the Clubhouse Subscription, please do so. We think it’s a pretty good deal: in general, it buys you all of the downloadable content on our site including all of the music that we will be adding to the site over the coming year (including all four albums of the Nomad Series) as well as a book (are real book, not an ebook) about The Nomad Series that we will be publishing in early 2012.
Bob has been hard at work and has put together another Cookie Crumbs with some live material from the Renmin Park tour cycle. Very cool. Please buy it if you have the dough. If you have a Clubhouse Subscription you can go in to the Clubhouse section and download it for free. If you aren’t a Clubhouse member then you ought to be…check out what you get for less than the price of a ticket to an Eagles concert. If you are struggling to make the mortgage payments these days then please be our guests and listen for free…in any event, enjoy.
Okay…here’s the lowdown. We finished Demons before we headed off to Europe and it’s all set to be unleashed on the world through the website. The good news is that our current partners in North America and Europe are excited about it and want to release it through their distribution systems as well, but the bad news is that they have certain lead times that they need to adhere to and the earliest that they can get it in to their systems is February 15th. They strongly feel that if we release the album through our site three months before they do, it will take away a bit of the momentum that they would like to try and build up before its release. So we are following their wishes.
But we will be releasing the album (digitally and on CD and vinyl) through the site on Jan 15th, one month before the official release, and we will be starting a pre-sale on the album with all sorts of pre-sale incentives (including a seven-song bonus EP) in the next couple of weeks. Also, in the next few days, we will be making the album (and the seven song bonus EP) available, digitally, to our Clubhouse Subscription holders. Yes, we know that this isn’t exactly fair and that it favours those that can afford the subscription fee, but we, like every other band out there, are trying to figure out how to keep afloat in this crumbling business and, for now, the Clubhouse Subscription is a large part of our business model and we are trying to come up with some shameless ways of enticing those on the fence to leap off and buy the subscription. It’s not a perfect plan but we are floundering around in this new digital world just like the rest of you and we trying our best. In the meantime, we will continue to blog about the album and post music from it and hopefully keep you all interested until January 15th….ok, let the recriminations begin…..
We have finally received copies of Renmin Park on vinyl and its available now in the Junk Store. It is manufactured by the same people (Diverse Records) who did the excellent job on Trinity Revisited and its mastered by Peter Moore to ensure the audiophile quality. Add it to your Black Friday list today.
The best of Vic’s lyrics takes the listener on a journey filled with unfamiliar signposts, during the ride one is never quite sure where one is. There are puns, fictional characters, real characters, humorous asides, cries of anger, bouts of self loathing, joy, despair and, sometimes, resolution. Vic keeps the listener slightly off balance at all times, but more often than not, there is a moment in the song where it all falls together in a line or two that strikes deep into the heart of the matter, that crystalline moment that makes one pause and say, “now I know where I am, because I’ve been here before”. Sad Peter Pan is such a song. For the first couple of verses you might not be sure of what is being discussed, although you can’t help but smile at a line like, “I’m a reluctant rebel/I just want to be Aaron Neville/with a crown upon my head/and my denim shirt all soaked with sweat”. But when the last verse is delivered: “ I’m just pushing the paint around/on advice from your lying mouth/You touched me and then you ran/and left some Sad Peter Pan/all alone and awkward/but a transformation, I swear it will occur.” That hopeless, empty, lost feeling of The Jilted, the only recourse, the only defence, is that last desperate plea, “I’ll change…”. You look around and you know where you are.
We asked our good friend Henry Kucharzyk to add his sensibility to this track and Henry came up with a clarinet arrangement which dances delicately throughout:
Henry did an arrangement for another song as well, below is the arrangement by itself. Ten points if you can figure out what song it is (no cheating by looking at the song title):
