ALL THINGS MUST PASS AGAIN - issue day 6 November 2020

  

ALL THINGS MUST PASS AGAIN

- PRE ISSUE DETAILS

 

At last, this project is finally going to be issued on FRIDAY 6th NOVEMBER 2020.

I am now in a position to accept pre-orders for this album, with a maximum limit of 250 units across all formats.

Please see below information about the different formats that are available:-

PLEASE NOTE.. the pricing details shown below here have been amended since this post was written - please see newer posting for November 2020 costings etc (https://gesturesongs.blogspot.com/2020/11/atmpa-simplified-pricing.html?m=1)

 

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL NOTES:

 

PAYPAL :

If paying by Paypal, please ensure that your current / delivery address travels with the payment. Please ensure that you read all of the payment option details shown above. PLEASE PRE-PAY PAYPAL FEES.. or send in a way to ensure that I receive the actual amount; I have trimmed the costs to the bare minimum. I will be asking for the additional if it is short (sorry, but this is a necessity to ensure that I get into the black to enable monies to be given to the Material World Foundation).

Also, please indicate what items you are paying for (ie "CDs, Memory Stick, MP3 download").

   

DESPATCH OF ITEMS:

CDs and memory sticks will hopefully be sent out ahead of the issue date. The caveat to this is the fact that I need to be in London with my wife for her latest operation a few nights early in the week before release (the date for which ironically arrived with us just TWO DAYS after I set the issue date), but I am still hopeful that I will get home in time to send them off to you that week. If not, I shall update you all. MP3 downloads with have email links sent on or soon after the 6th November release date (or as soon as I am back home, should I still be in London). 

  

PRODUCT LIMIT NUMBERS:

It has been necessary to limit the numbers of album copies to 250 units across all formats; the limited production license to cover all sides of our efforts holds a limit at 250. Of course, should we achieve a huge success with this little project, then this could change. But we shall see!

If you have any further queries, please feel free to contact me directly (at stevestringbender@yahoo.co.uk).

   

AND FINALLY...

After nearly ten years, it is now time to allow this baby to fly the nest. I feel - I hope rightly - proud of what we have achieved using our limited means. No huge studios with racks of effects, just two 24 track digital recorders, editing software, and copious guitars (4, 6, 10 and 12 stringed varieties) other musical oddities - and of course lots of incredibly talented friends from across the globe (take a bow, each and every one of you).

However, we couldn't have got anywhere without George's incredible original material. God bless and rest you dear man.

 

Steve, 23 October 2020

Release date for "ALL THINGS MUST PASS AGAIN" announced

Dear all

After a hiatus of some FIVE YEARS, welcome back to the hallowed pages of Gesture Songs At Twilight.

An issue date of 6 November 2020 has been agreed for the long awaited "ALL THINGS MUST PASS AGAIN" double CD. Some ten years in the making, lockdown finally gave me the impetus to push it to the final line.

Details on costing will be posted up in due course, but I intend to take a bit of a punt, in the hope that we can sell enough copies to break even, and then acquire a profit for George's own "Material World Foundation". That is my ultimate aim.

Anyway, welcome back to these pages everyone.

Steve

24 September 2020

Mixcloud account deleted is Soundcloud's gain...

Dear all

A belated new year to you all. Hope everyone is keeping well.

Apologies for the extended silence but I have finally managed to move house and we are looking to extend to help with the production of future music. That's the plan though, things don't always happen that way (not in this family anyway). All things hopeful, we should be able to breathe a bit more in the next few months when it all gets done. We will see.

MIXCLOUD vs SOUNDCLOUD
I have now shut down the Mixcloud site as they were putting pressure on me for populating it with "real music" and not rubbish podcasts which they told me was it's sole use. Well, it's their loss, as I am now starting to populate Soundcloud (BUT no cover versions will be allowed there, which is a shame). If you have any requests for songs etc to be loaded up, do please contact me and I will do whatever I can.

What I am most upset by is that I have lost the connection that I had grown with people over on the old Mixcloud site, and have to seemingly start all over again. It's so galling and just another of the industry's knock at any attempts I make. Let's see if we can regain any of this in the near future. I am close to giving it all up though, I hate most of the new muzak that I hear, yet get knock-downs like this. It's quite depressing.

That all said, I have some projects that I would like to see through at the very least; one is the 40 (or even 50) year retrospective set of a selection of all the things I have produced over the years. Add to this the Krisp double CD set that was mastered by me some three years ago that is still needing "finishing". I need to find all the art that is needed for its cover, it will include some rarities from rehearsals as well as the last ever Krisp gig at Chiswick House near Hammersmith.

So.. this one makes it THREE : the final recordings big project that has never got fully started. I have had several faltering attempts at it over recent years; whether I revisit those recordings to be included needs to be thought about hard. There are a couple of brand new items that I would like to use, it would be sad to put them in the bin to be totally discarded (especially having written new pieces of music the first time in decades), but it needs some heart and soul searching first. There are some further re-recordings of old material waiting to be revisited too.

So, all in all, a new year of some variation. Things ahead should be interesting, if I don't allow the knocks of the Mixcloud issue to effect me too badly.

DO please visit and folllow what occurs over at https://soundcloud.com/steve-good-7 if you can.

All the very best for a fabulous 2015.

Steve
Even Newer-Port
25 Jan 2015

In the charts on Mixcloud!

Hi all

Just a quick message to say that an old cover version of mine (Don't Cry For Me Argentina) is currently riding high in the Mixcloud Instrumental charts. A link to it is here:

http://www.mixcloud.com/upload/stevegood121/dont-cry-for-me-argentina-a-lloyd-webber/edit/

Sadly this cannot stay up there for too much longer, I will need to withdraw it in the next few days, so DO try and listen in and make it go higher if you can!

Steve, 1 Aug 2014

Hopefully ... a new retrospective

There are plans afoot to put together a "career long" multiple CD set covering the forty years that I've been making my own projects at home - and indeed FIFTY years at the music game itself. This is ahead of the huge big last project that is still on the chocks but slow in getting off the ground - hopefully more will occur if and when the studio gets its final "relocation" (and hopefully there'll be more on that too soon).
AND more on this retrospective project soon too. If anyone's interested in knowing more, let me know (else maybe I'll just forget about it....but it would be a "nice icing on the career long effort cake" if it happened and made some more money for local charities).

Steve, 2 July 2014

Belated Happy New Year all

Hi all

It's been a terrible start to the new year here, with lots of personal issues and stuff that's taken its toll on things I'm afraid. Needless to say all work on the new project has stopped even before it got past the planning stage. Bear with me on this and I hope to try and get into a position to work on it as soon as things settle, whenever that might be.

In the meantime, I have a few "burns" left for the old "Lest We Forget" CD (ie in the legal contract that I am allowed to produce for the project), these have to be done by the end of April, so if anyone would still like a copy please let me know and I'll get on the case. As a little "thank you" for the project I am contemplating adding a few out-take and pre-mix versions to these extra CDs, so they'll be ever so slightly more collectible.

Also, I am thinking of remastering the previously well received "One More Gesture" album, so again let me know if you'd like a copy.

As ever, all profits will go to charity.

Hope you're all having a good start to 2014... or at least a better one than the one currently occurring here.

Very best wishes for a great spring and summer ahead.

Steve, 10 March 2014

Quiet Time .. until the next project

It has been a bit of "down time" here after the furore of finishing the CD project, and I believe we had quite a little success with what we all achieved, thank you all so VERY much for your commitment to the cause.  

We suffered a little trauma here at home during the late summer (a burst water main pipe under the house) which resulted in much of the contents of the old house being moved about quite a lot, and much of the music gear (and CDs, DVDs etc) being all boxed up... but they will stay that way until we finally move in 2014 (it will happen next year, we have promised ourselves... so put us in your prayers please to make certain that it does... if you're able).

All that said, the offshoot of all the boxing up of stuff here is that I have made a space inbetween all of the boxes to eventually house the digital recorder, and it WILL come out before too long and work will tentatively start on the next (and final) big project! 

In the meantime I have just compiled a little CD of tracks that I found lingering on some old DCC tapes; they are mostly sequence mixes and ISM synch tracks and other non-final mixes of material that I recorded and sequenced back in 1995 - if anyone wants a copy, just let me know (some of it is interesting, if only to see where I was heading when I finished some earlier pieces!).

Anyway, that's enough for now. Hope this late November day sees you all keeping well. Keep the faith all.

Steve
28 November 2013