News and what the hell I've been up to (part 1!)

Hi y'all!

As you no doubt have realised by now, I'm not one of these daily blogger types........Twitter has kinda taken over on that score...feel free to follow me there for latest news & updates.

Thanks to everyone who has left reviews for The White Sail and Otherwake, really touched by your thoughts on both those albums. I'm gonna make an exclusive track available as a little thankyou....will keep you posted.

You can see my reviews here on iTunes. Please feel free to add to them if you get chance.

The third album is coming along nicely - a few more tweaks and I'm there. I'm looking at an October release date, can't believe we're in July already, where does the time go? (no doubt down some trans-dimensional vortex along with the remote control, your keys etc...)

More details to come soon ...

On the production music side, I've recently finished some more music to picture with Ben Mitchell, which was great fun to make and as usual - all very last minute which always pumps the adrenaline! I continue to work with Ben on a lot of cool different projects... he's an awesome drummer and consummate pro - we've had great fun performing up at the O2 Arena, and on Terry Callier's Live With Me.

Finally, on the chance that you haven't come across them yet.... couple of cool sites I'd recommend checking out are Spotify.com and Reverbnation.com, both been around for a while but really seem to be taking off for musicians and listeners.

That's about it for now, hope everyone's having a great Summer!

Cx

News, Twitter & Replicants

Hey - another entry in my semi-sporadic posting.....well I've been up to lots, getting to grips with The Vienna Symphonic Library and Altiverb. This work is towards my ever divergent musical activity, notably my production music  - Chris Harvey Productions.....I may change the name of this at some point  to something more like 'Interslice' or 'Edgecom'....:) There will be some music up there in the next week or so, just finishing mixes for the next showreel. 

Also just had a superb March 21st up at Bladerunner Day at the BFI. Present were Mike Deeley, Rutger Hauer & Sir Ridley himself. Directors Final Cut, Mark Kermode's Documentary, lots of Q & A's. I also got to meet Paul Sammon, author of Future Noir. He's a really nice guy and it was very insightful to have a good chat with him.

There will be some new on the next album 'Colonization' soon - it's about 3/4 of the way there - should be looking to release in this next quarter. In the meantime, there are new tracks up on Myspace and there may well be some exclusive single releases too. While we're on music, there appears to be another artist called 'Chris Harvey' -he's got a single out on itunes, which Apple have lumped together with my stuff - I only mention this to appeal to fans of us both, so you know what your buying. His track is here.

Lastly - I just got on Twitter today, track me up : @chrisharveyUK

Colonization progress...

Hey there - Happy New Year at last. Lots of great stuff happening this year - first off check out my new track 'Until the Sun Returns' on myspace here. It's from what is to be my 3rd album -  titled 'Colonization'.

Following the Tom Robinson in December, the music is getting more exposure and interest - also a big thankyou to all who've supported thus far via Magnatune. 

As the year starts, as usual, I'm still torn between self distribution, writing, promo/marketing etc or looking to another organization for this...if any of you out there can recommend labels et al, I'd be grateful.....there are a plethora of companies as you will no doubt be aware, so any suggestions are welcome - I'm burning to get back to some writing ( I got another new synth!), catch y'all soon....

Cx

Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson just played Graviton (from forthcoming release 'Colonization') on his BBC 6 radio show Monday 24th Nov ...listen again here.

he also gave me a  very nice badge:

String Ducky

This is the award winning video for Discover Magazine about producing a 2 minute video to explain String Theory in 2 mins or less by Sandy Chase. Music is my track 'Jorg' from The White Sail.

May the 12th?...no way! Anyway here is the news....

Can it really be May 12th since I last posted...? omg - Guess I've been really busy...Here's the latest - Otherwake is doing well, just been pick of the week in emusician Xtra - they seemed to like it...

News also came to me that Sandy Chase (cool science dude from NY) won first prize in a competition held by US Discover Magazine, for a video entitled 'String Ducky' - which explains string theory in 2 minutes flat..music for the winning video was my track 'Jorg' from The White Sail.. To view the vid see above....

Also coming on stream is the production music myspace as I diversify somewhat and provide music with a decidedly epic hybrid feel - check it out here.....

I'm also in the process of finishing off some brand new tracks - not sure whether these will be an EP or album yet....will keep you posted.....

Wow what a lot of dot dot dots.........s'yall soon

C

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Otherwake out to buy now!

Crikey ! - what a few mad months...... the album is now up and out there ready to buy as a digital release initially - get it here. 

If you'd like to write a review for me, please leave me a comment below! 

I've been busy with some sessions recently and also just checking out some new analog beasts -  something from Ken Macbeth looks promising...hmmm filtery.......

Loadsa new music on the way!

C

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