BaldAngels
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Topic: BaldAngels
Posted By: BaldFriede
Subject: BaldAngels
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 15:06
It looks as if we finally found a distributor for our first album. It will, however, have a different cover than planned. Take a look at this: Expect some pretty strange stuff from us.  The album will probably be out in June; more details as to content and how to order soon. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 15:09
Good luck.  |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 15:15
I'm looking forward to info; I'd love to hear your stuff! 
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 17:16
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Nice one! Competition for Van Der Graaf Generator, or a Kraut revival perhaps?
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 18 2008 at 17:21
Somewhere in between. Some quite unique ideas too; you will never have heard similar versions of Franz Schubert's "Erlkönig" or Hugo Wolf's "Feuerreiter" (the only 2 compositions which are not by us).------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Angelo wrote:Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 13:35
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the title of the album refers to a joke, in which a singing goat and a piano-playing donkey appear. in the title track we demonstrate how it REALLY would sound if a donkey played piano and a goat sang, which means Friede makes bleating noises and I bang on the piano with my fists
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 14:13
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Best of luck to your endeavour. May your music find its way to the ears that can benefit from it. How exciting for you! ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 14:26
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Did you consider distributing your album via cdbaby.com? They have excellent conditions for the artists, and you can publish the music on CD and mp3 simultaneously. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to: 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 14:34
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One of my brothers is a musician and has a record label, and he's told me in the past how great CDBaby is. Do you have a myspace account where we can listen to some of it? ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 14:53
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That's a killer combination ... a myspace page with a link to cdbaby.com where people can purchase your album. If I were to release an album - which I'm always dreaming of doing and never get around to writing something in the first place - this is probably how I would do it today.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 15:10
thank you for the information, Mike. we will check that out ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 15:13
no myspace account yet, but we will get one, and you will find excerpts from the album there. but not before it is officially out ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 19:14
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Nice cover art. I have some immediate associations with Kraftwerk albums (but a more feminine version), and Kim Poor's covers for Steve Hackett albums on the other hand (but then a real live version). But the bottomline is that it certainly looks very original.
Your choice of classical 'covers' is also interesting. Many classical composers were being covered by prog artists, but I have never seen anyone cover classical Lieder (songs) like those from Schubert or Wolf.
And prog with humor also, I understand. Well, I'm looking forward to it!
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 20:34
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hahahha. .awesome... that is a wild ass cover... if the music is half as good.. I'd love to hear it. Same offer as I gave Igor... get me a copy... get a glowing 5 star review.  I'm better, and cheaper, than the 70's reviewers.. you don't have to get me drunk, fried, and laid to get a good review. Just the album will suffice hahhahah.just ask Igor... no album.. no review ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 23:29
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Great, good luck!! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 00:47
the Frankfurter Kurorchester, a band which is not in the archives but definitely deserves to be, did a version of "Es bebet das Gesträuche" ("The shrubbery is quivering"), a Lied by Brahms. we saw them in the 90s once. in their version the shrubbery really was quivering ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 17:33
 That sounds like a good show. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 17:44
keep us posted 
 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 23 2008 at 22:20
actually this album is already a thing of the past for us; we recorded it almost a year ago. we are already working on our second album, which will be called "It's a Dog's Life". and I can tell you this: it will have one of the most controversial and scandalous cover pics ever  ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 06:15
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^ I'm curious ... the picture looks quite artificial, is this intentional? I mean, it's obviously computer generated, but with current technology it could be made more organic.
------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 08:39
not really intentional. what would you suggest to make it look more "organic", as you put it? ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 09:38
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I'm looking forward to hearing some of this.
To make the cover more organic and natural, I would suggest limiting the depth of field so not every part of the image is in focus (some rendering software allows you to change the camera settings), but you can do it manually with photoshop, something like this (I've over-emphasised the effect here to make it more noticable (and spent all of 2 minutes on it!) but with care and patience it can be made to look more realistic):
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 14:49
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though I kinda like the weird mannequin quality it has |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 22:29
The cover makes me think about Wolfgang Riechmann
You should definitely add a more organic, natural aspect to the cover. ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 24 2008 at 22:38
Now my mind is running wild....  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 11:31
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Hm... not that I've heard your music yet, but I think there's something not right about this cover. It looks like it belongs in a completely different genre, than I imagine you do. The esthetics signalises something like nu-metal/Skunk Anansie/late nineties stuff. The fonts don't fit in at all either, and looks a bit cheap, which would be ok if the rest of the album did. Sorry about all that. I wish you the best of luck, but the cover wouldn't trigger my curiosity. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 11:35
I don't know ... it would depend on which software was used to render it. It's mostly mouth and eyes, and maybe a different texture could be used for the skin. But of course if you feel it looks perfect now, then by all means keep it as it is! ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Mike" rel="nofollow">Recently listened to:
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 13:39
we will keep it as it is. but we can promise you one thing: the cover for the second album, which is already in the making since the first will be published with a delay of almost a year, will look completely different. actually it will be very much on the daring side ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 16:29
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When do you plan a tour?
------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 17:20
not sure yet; at the moment the Bald Angels play about once a week at our restaurant ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 17:25
And where is your restaurant? ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 17:30
Cologne, Germany. or rather in Pulheim, which is a village just outside of Cologne ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 17:33
Does the band consist only of you two? ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 28 2008 at 17:42
basically yes; we sometimes have guest musicians though, like my sister Bea on flute. on our first album we played all instruments ourselves except for the flute and some violin (which was also added by Bea) ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |