2007 news
Wednesday, 19th December 2007 - a few notes!
Hello everyone, it's been a while since I've posted some news. Well that's because nothing musically important happened
lately to me! I've searched a little the web again to find that there's another review to check out. Again from Progarhives
but this time from Olav Martin Bjornsen. You can read that in the review section or directly from this link
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2894
At the moment I'm looking to find some good pick ups for my guitars to replace before I start recording the second album next
year. This time I will record in my studio again but the mixing will be left to more professional ears since all the reviews
were quite negative regarding mixing. Well that's all for now, and I want to take the opportunity to wish all of you a great
Xmas and a prosperous new year 2008, bye and see u next year!
Wednesday, 10th October 2007 - more reviews
Hi there, just to let you know that finally Tales of wonder, an Italian website that reviews prog rock cd's and dvd's,
released their review on "...it's only the beginning". To read it directly from the website both in Italian, which is longer
and more detailed and the English version, which is more compact, you can go at...
http://www.talesofwonder.it/cdrev/cddifferentstringsits.htm
You can also read the English version in the review section. Thanks alot and see ya soon.
Sunday, 7th October 2007 - ...some more news
Hi everybody, it's been a while since I posted a little something. Well nothing in particular happened. Still trying to
gather musicians to form Different Strings as a whole band but it's very difficult locally to find decent musicians or more
than that, available musicians! From the last update I'm still waiting for some reviews that seems to take ages to arrive (I
don't know why!) but at least one other review finally appeared. This time is the turn of another very good prog rock
website, and I'm referring to Progressive Ears.com. This website is synonymous with prog listeners and cd buyers. It's full
of cd/dvd reviews of several bands. It was posted by Yeshead777, a member of the site on August 30th. Ok here's the link for
it or you can read this review in the review section as well.
http://www.progressiveears.com/asp/reviews.asp?albumID=4086&bhcp=1
As mentioned last month, another digital distribution site (audio lunchbox) added ...it's only the beginning with there
massive list of sales. For those interested in buyng digital music in .mp3 format here's the link:
http://audiolunchbox.com/album?a=143823
Ok then, that's all for now, see ya soon with more news.
Saturday, 1st September 2007 - some news
ok, how you're doin folks? I hope everything's fine with all of you. Well I just have a little news to share with you today.
As mentioned last month, I am gathering some musicians to try to put Different Strings on the right track of some live
performances. We're not a full band yet but we've done some work already and things are starting to have shape. A couple of
websites added my album on their sites for sale digitally. One can download the tracks at a price in .mp3 or .wma formats.
Here are the links for the sites:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1994411
http://www.payplay.cd/differentstrings
http://progadelic.blogpost.com used a little space of their
website to submit a review of my cd with cd cover as well. Although the review is the same one by Christos Ampatzis from the
Dutch Progressive Rock Page (DPRP) which I already submitted last month.
Well I'm still waiting for the Tales of wonder review, a confirmation to submit more digital tracks for sale on another
website and maybe an exclusive interview on an important local magazine but nothing is confirmed yet, so I'll submit you more
news as soon I'll have any!, until then...
Thursday, 9th August 2007 - more reviews
Hi everybody, I hope you're doin fine. Well I have a little news today to spread with all of you. Firstly is that there is a
slight chance that finally Different Strings will go live. I'm in contact with some fellow musicians that are interested in
my ideas and they wanna make some good music so we are trying to join forces and build something. We are at the very
beginning but I think it's a good start. From the international point of view, I had another review on the CD from the Dutch
Progressive Rock Page (DPRP) which is one of the best review pages regarding progressive rock in the world. Unfortunately
been poorely judeged because of the production and not the music, well that's what a very low budget restrains you from.
Anyway you can read it yourself using this link or go in the reviews section
http://www.dprp.net/reviews/200735.php#different
Some other good international interests are the websites Music TV News and Cable TV guide, both are using a local review but
are featuring the cd as a broadband source. Here are the links
http://archive.wn.com/2007/02/14/1400/musictvnews/
http://archive.wn.com/2007/02/14/1400/cabletvglobe/
In the near future I will have another review from the Italian prog rock page "Tales of wonder". I'll post it as sonn I'll
have it. Ok that's all for now and see ya soon with some more news.
Sunday, 22nd July 2007 - a few words Hello everyone, it's been a while since I wrote some news. Well what happened in these
last 2 months? First of all I became father for the second time of a lovely baby girl. We named her Shannen and she's a
beauty. I had a little time to think on my second effort and worked a little on it too, no particular progress have been made
though. My music is featured on another website, Airplay direct and this is the link
http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/bands/14681/index.php
Another new thing goin on recently is that Different Strings might go live in the not so far future. I've been in contact
with some fellow musicians that most probably it will result in finally form the band that I needed. Well we'll see what the
future reserved for us. Ok that's enough for today, see ya soon with more news. Saturday, 19th May 2007 - album on ZNR
website Hey there, ZNR Records finally put the CDs on sale on their website which has a review as well. Use this link to take
a look at the CD and of course the review.
http://www.znrcds.com/osc/catalog/
Anyone interested in purchasing the CD it is priced at $14.99. Regarding the second album, I took a little break before I get
seriously going on it because my wife and I are expecting very soon the arrival of our second child which of course took all
the space. Well see ya soon with more news.
Friday, 18th May 2007 - more reviews
Hi everyone, I have just posted the review that I had in December on the German progressive page of ragazzi-music.de. Since
it was in German I had to translate it first that's why it took a while to be posted on the site. Also there's the review
done on The Independent News paper by Mike Bugeja.
Friday, 11th May 2007 - My space community
Hello everyone, like many music artists in the world I have made my own my space page for all of you to view. There's 2 full
length tracks, "All over again" from "...it's only the beginning" and "Dead man walking" from the single with the same name.
Here's the link to enter so you can make a comment, or find it in the links section.
http://www.myspace.com/differentstringsmalta
Tuesday, 1st May 2007 - Showcase your Music
From a few days Differnt Strings is officially on the Showcase Your music website. This website features young and not so
young but very talented bands and musicians that aren't signed to any label. This website is an alternate to myspace.com in
which I am as well. For those interested, you can find a full length sample of "All over again" and "Beyond infinity" which
is not on my website yet. So log in and take a listen, this is the link:
http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/differentstrings
Monday, 30th April 2007 - Big Balloon Music
As mentioned last week, Big Balloon Music bought a few number of CDs to be sold online and hopefully as mentioned on their
website at NEARfest Festival. This festival is held every year in the US and is one of the best prog rock festivals world
wide. Here's the link to NEARfest:
http://www.nearfest.com
Monday, 23rd April 2007 - Big Balloon Music
Another US established prog-rock CD distributor is interested in merchandiising "...it's only the beginning". This is the 3rd
foreign act that loved the music on this album. Hopefully there'll be more. The link to this website is
http://www.bigballoonmusic.com
Sunday, 22nd April 2007 - Second album news
Well I didn't get in details yet with the engineer I have in mind but regarding the album I can say that it will have another
epic track like in the first one, this time quite longer. It will be some 30 min. app. There is another instrumental but
softer than "Beyond infinity" and a few more tracks. More information in the future.
Monday, 16th April 2007 - "...it's only" at ZNR Records
ZNR Records had officially bought a number of CDs "...it's only the beginning" to merchandise on the internet as one of the
foreign bands represented on their website. This is not an official distribution contract but is surely sometihng to start
with. ZNR is the second foreign label after Musea Records that showed interest in this album, hopefully there'll be more in
the future. This is the link to ZNR Records http://www.znrcds.com/osc/catalog/
Sunday, 8th April 2007 - Started work on second album
Today I officially started works on Different Strings second album. I actually already have 90% of the material written, I
have to put things in order and start re-record them with the better technology that I put up. So far it's just basic because
I have to get in contact with a pro studio for the mixing. The reason is to adapt with the engineer I choose to work with, to
avoid working in vain and start from the beginning because of audio formats or recording techniques.
Sunday, 1st April 2007 - Interest from US label
Good news finally from the foreign side of the prog-rock world. ZNR Records is interested in merchandising a number of the
album "...it's only the beginning". Wednesday, 21st March 2007 - Web reviews on "...it's only" For a couple of weeks I've
been having some good reviews of my album on a few good prog-rock websites. Besides Progarchives, here's some more European
sites. Here's the links of what I gathered so far.
http://www.proggnosis.com/MUSIC_DBCDInfo.asp?txtCDID=21679
http://gnosis2000.net/reviews/diffstrings.htm
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14735
http://www.ragazzi-music.de/differentstrings.html
http://www.lib66.tk/ find under articles
http://www.ytsejam.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=1153
You can submit a rating and review on progarchives.com. Subscribing is free and it will only help Different Strings get more
listeners worldwide. Thanks for your help.
Thursday, 1st March 2007 - Different Strings on Progarchives.com
Progarchives.com, a very well established website that review great bands of progressive rock and other styles from the
progressive era had the pleasure to add Different Strings in their very extensive band list. Classified under the neo-prog
rock category and reviewed by their neo-prog specialist, Andrew. In a few days I will give you the link with the review when
it will be on the site. There will be an audio sample of "All over again" as well.
Monday, 26th February 2007 - Musea Records distribution deal? After less than a month of its release, the debut album
"...it's only the beginning" gathered an international interest in the progressive rock world. Musea Records of France are
offering an interesting distribution deal that will cover 500 retailers world wide. More information will be added in the
future.
Sunday, 18th February 2007 - Launching day
Hello there for those that came to the launching and bought the CD, especially Trevor and Mauro and families, and of course
for those who showed more interest in surfing the web and log into my website. Well I wanted to thank you all for coming
there and buying the CD. Actually I thought that it was going to be a larger audience but every beginning is difficult,
anyway thanks again and see ya soon! Oh by the way I added a few pics of the date.
Thursday, 18th January 2007 - "...it's only the beginning" launching date The official launching and release date of the
debut album "...it's only the beginning" is finally done and it will be on
Sunday, 18th February. The venue will be Exotique Record stores at Baystreet at 4 pm. Everyone is invited to listen for the
first time. The price of the CD will be Lm 3.95 or Lm 4.95 bundled with the previously released single "Dead man walking".
This price will only be for the launching date.
Friday, 1st December 2006 - Ready for launching Finally the copies of the CDs are finally ready. After a lot of
misunderstandings both CD copies and covers are ready to be launched, although a new date have to be set considering it's
reaching the festive season, most probably early next year. More information will be added soon.
Sunday, 29th October 2006 - Album finally ready The debut album is finally ready from mixing and mastering. This is for
those, most of you friends that were looking forward to hear this. Thanks guys for waiting so long!
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