In the tradition of double albums, triptychs and trilogies and generally just wanting to get it out there, the The End Of The Beginning EP has been released. A glorious 8 tracks and just over 29 minutes of music. However, in this age of download-able media you don’t need to buy or listen to the whole thing. Take it as you will.
It’s available now on the iTunes Music Store (click here) and will eventually be available on Amazon.com. Please enjoy responsibly. The tracks can also be listened to in full on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/jonathanseet. Watch your speakers.
Update: The EP is now live on Amazon.com [Sept. 19, 2009]
April & May has been quite a whirlwind with touring interspersed with several (fantastic) weddings. However, I’ve also been working on a whole bundle of new songs which have collected over the past year or so…about 40-ish of varying quality and palatability. I’ve played quite a few at Catweazle and the various shows I’ve been doing around. Rob Greenway has been kindly doing “remote drums” on some of them and a few days ago, I enticed a few volunteers from the Jonathan Seet Music Facebook Group to engage in some listening tests on some of the more finished ones. I hope to have these available for downloading sometime in the next few weeks after I check them on some decent monitors for myself.
Last night, BBC Oxford’s Introducing radio show played Killing All My Friends and gave a little plug for the Jericho Tavern show on April 17th. It will be available for replay until next Saturday at this link (you need the BBC iPlayer or the RealAudio plugin).
Thanks guys!
Saw this on the side of a bus last week in London:
Today is the 6th birthday of Arousal Disasters (2003) and as a Valentine’s Day gift to you I’m offering a remixed/remastered and slightly doctored/enhanced version (from 2005) of the song The Dead Ballet in all its full 320kbps MP3 glory:
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Here’s a little story: in case you’re curious why Arousal Disasters is unavailable in physical CD form (aside from the used record peddler stores) only a thousand were ever manufactured. It was in a gorgeous Digi-pak format which was designed by my friend and drummer, Rob Greenway. Aporia Records agreed to manufacture them at quite a cost. Many were sent out for promotional purposes (and probably ultimately ended up in the aforementioned used record stores), many were sold off-stage at shows and the remainder were given to Maple Nationwide, who was distributed by Universal Music in Canada. Since nobody was really buying it in the stores due to lack of any real promotion, after about 6 months Universal eventually pulled it from the shelves and kept the remaining copies in their warehouse. Eventually, somebody decided it was taking up unnecessary space should be removed from the warehouse . But instead of shipping it back to Maple Nationwide and Aporia (and me), Universal Music Canada had them summarily destroyed. In fact, Maple Nationwide had no idea until after months of pestering they figured it out and sheepishly said, “this has never happened before.”
Now, frankly, there probably weren’t that many left. Maybe 100 or so. However, that would have been 100 more copies out in the world than there are right now.
