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An apology to board members!
Due to a huge server issue, board emails might have arrived to some people up to 20 times. And of course, they were meant to arrive only once. I got 20 of them myself, even. So, I apologise for this issue. It’a beyond my power. Just delete them as you’re receiving them; but make sure you’d read one of them, as it’s not spam, it’s a nice message. I’m trying to stop them, as it looks something’s stuck.
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The Heart Is A Drum Machine: trailer, stills, transcript of John’s parts, reviews
The Heart Is A Drum Machine, a documentary movie about music, featuring many musicians, directed by Christopher Pomerenke; was premiered at the Phoenix Art Museum on Friday, 06th February. A bunch of wonderful people have sent in their reviews and even recorded and transcribed some of the things John’s saying in the movie. [media id=186] The above’s a trailer from its official website (go there to download it in full quality!) and below it would be some of John’s lines from the movie itself. I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the eternal process of their soul and their mind…
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More photos from The Empyrean cover session (off-site link)
If you click on the preview image or here, you’ll be taken to Sarah Sitkin’s Bodies series on Dripbook.com. There are two new underwater angel photo of John, from the same photo session as the one shown earlier. The whole album is interesting as well…just watch out for full frontal male nudity on some models, if that’s not your piece of cake.
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Guitar World, April 2009 issue -nothing new, but still cool
There’s a two page article on John in the April 2009 issue of Guitar World. Basically, the photos are from 2005 and 2007 and the article itself is an abridged version of the MusicRadar interview, which is pretty logical as both Guitar World and MusicRadar are owned by the same company. It appears that some of the questions asked in the first two parts of the interview were readers’ questions as well. So, I assume some people who might’ve thought their questions weren’t answered should have another look now that it’s clearer. Either way, for all of you who missed it or want it in a printed form, grab the…
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A listener’s take at creating a video for Central + Saturday question #1
Andreas Yngvesson/BaconDude has created a music video for Central. It’s pretty interesting and unusual, so have a look! [flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4YutWM0n0Y] And, why not, since Saturdays are so quiet, let’s start a new tradition: a random question asked on Saturday, for you all to answer. This week’s (obvious) question: Would you create a video for any of these ten (twelve) songs yourself and if you would, what song would it be and how would it look like? Reply in comments.
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The Empyrean gained positions on Billboard top 200 and Top Heatseekers
Last week, The Empyrean surpassed the success of 2004’s Shadows Collide With People by debuting as #190 on Billboard top 200 and #7 on Top Heatseekers. However, that’s not where the surprises end. According to the 14th February 2009 data, it’s now #151 on Billboard and the “greatest gainer” on Top Heatseekers, having jumped from #7 to #4 on only its second week on the list. You can view the list here or below. Now Last Weeks Peak 1 – 1 1 Ready For The Flood – Mark Olson & Gary Louris (New West) 2 2 28 1 Thriving Ivory – Thriving Ivory (Wind-up) 3 1 21 1 Hook Me…
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A two-page article in February issue of Teraz Rock (PL)
There’s an article on John, two pages long, in the February 2009 issue of Polish magazine Teraz Rock with a pic from the Chorzow show in 2007; so if you live in Poland and think this is worth buying the magazine, go and grab it. If not, well, you can read it if you click on this picture preview. Many thanks to Michalina for having sent this. Also, if anyone could give a go translating this, that would be perfect; as she doesn’t have the time to do it at the moment. The article is mostly related to The Empyrean, the album’s personnel, the concept behind it, with a little…
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Ryan Page discusses upcoming The Heart Is A Drum Machine
In an interview with AZ Central, Ryan Page, who directed the upcomong documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine with Christopher Pomerenke; had only good words for John and his knowledge. Question: How did the film come about? Pomerenke: I kind of had the idea for talking about music in a grand way, a deep way that we have never seen or done before. Usually music documentaries are about specific people, about their careers, and we wanted to do something broader and get away from that. We got together and started to put together a big list of what we wanted to ask people. Page: We started shooting and it…
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More from the highest point in heaven…
…OK, not literally. But it’s a cachy title for a news item with a bunch of updates. The release dates in the sidebar have been updated, according to some people’s suggestions. Given how this has been going on, I can only tell you that I HOPE they’re right. >_< Another thing in the sidebar has changed and it waits for your input. It's a rather obvious poll in which you can select up to three answers. The question is so predicable, that it hurts: what is your favourite song off The Empyrean? Thanks to Eleni Philos, the first part of 25th January episode of The Watt From Pedro podcast featuring…
