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precious-things-digest      Friday, June 6 2008      Volume 12 : Number 133



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: [pt] tori's statement of independance      [e m <crysteleni@yahoo.com>]

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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 04:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: e m <crysteleni@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [pt] tori's statement of independance

I've been asking questions like that of the bridge for a while.  I really do not think tori has been promoted in the music world especially considering she had both The Bridge & Epic.  Maybe most of the promotion came via the bridge?

anyway, I think this move will have zero impact on the music b/c I don't think that other than being inspired to write songs about her strife with the industry & the trauma of it changing her mindset to think about the business end more that the label had little to do with her music.

I can think of a lot of artists that are on labels and have artistic freedom.  bjork is the first that comes to mind -- she did an entire album with just voices inspired by the avant works of meredith monk--and they released it!! ;)


anyway - rambling and i gotta get to work in eight minutes.  (I just don't want to though)

e  


- --- On Wed, 6/4/08, Richard Handal <handal@r2d2.reverse.net> wrote:

> From: Richard Handal <handal@r2d2.reverse.net>
> Subject: Re: [pt] tori's statement of independance
> To: "Precious Things" <precious-things@smoe.org>
> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 7:09 PM
> Hello:
> 
> > ToriAmos.com <url: http://www.toriamos.com/ >
> has been updated and
> > features this statement from Tori about the
> just-announced split with
> > epic and move towards self-releasing her work:
> 
> Kindly forgive me for reposting this message text in full.
> The thing is
> difficult enough to understand with its challenged syntax,
> and the quote
> marks having turned to periods wasn't helping.
> 
>    "This is an exciting time. There will be many ways
> in the present and
>    in the future for artists to cross what has become the
> new
>    unchartered Music Frontier. Ways that may seem
> impossible today but
>    in a months time will seem probable. There are many ways
> to be
>    involved in a structure. But what kind of structure will
> it be and
>    what will be the make up of it's foundation? These
> are important
>    questions, so important that I've been observing
> many different
>    working templates in the music business for years now.
> The key word
>    here is the word "working." In some cases
> these structures do not
>    work positively for some artists. Only for those who
> have designed
>    the system to specifically "work" for the
> corporate few. Artists need
>    not fear structure, we just have to design and partner
> with expansive
>    ideas. It is time for us as artists to stop being
> dependent,
>    dependent on any system that has become undependable.
> Only then can
>    we help to create a new system that propagates and
> secures
>    independence for each creator."
> 
> As to why she's gone indie, I agree that it's
> mainly for money reasons.
> Last fall I had dinner with a dear friend while she was in
> town on tour,
> and she described how her sales had become 30/70 CDs to
> downloads, when
> her prior album from the year before was the reverse, being
> 70/30 CDs to
> downloads. In a world where an artist who has a strong
> following can
> record her own tracks and not need to deal with physical
> items to
> distribute them to most of the fans, it makes sense to keep
> a higher
> percentage of the revenue for herself.
> 
> What happened to Tori's company The Bridge? They were
> supposedly created
> to help indie artists promote themselves, but seemed not to
> be doing
> much of that, and its very existence begged the question
> why, if Tori
> has a company helping artists do their own promotion,
> didn't she use it
> herself?
> 
> Be seeing you,
> 
> Richard Handal, H.G.

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