Spinefish’s Web-Journal

Greetings everybody! And many thanks for supporting Spinefish!

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This September has even surpassed my expectations as regards our publishing issues. I’ve recently contacted EnoughRecords and the result is the release of the bonus version of Fool’s Paradise. Well, I have spoken about what sort of a bonus it is previously. The “new album” is not really new and is not very much of an album. Rather a compilation of some early works. Anyways, it’s there, published under attribution-noncommercial-share alike CC license.

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I’m happy to say that today is the release day of Fool’s Paradise Revisited. The publisher is AFmusic as it was announced earlier. The album is in all major digital music stores. Those who prefer a CD can purchase one. And, of course, it is available for free download under Creative Commons license. Go to the release page for more information.

Impressed & inspired by the idea of free & legal music sharing I have recently uploaded some music of Spinefish on Jamendo, “a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.” So now you can listen and download our tracks from there without any limitations and a feeling of guilty conscience. Your stars (and reviews) are always welcome :) Well, first of all, it’s Fool’s Paradise EP of 2004. Now it comes with a bonus part that includes two tracks from Daydream Diary (single 2005) and four notable songs from Clandestine LP of 2003. The best opportunity to learn what early Spinefish was like as a one-moonling band. Other releases are Vortex and Fool’s Paradise Revisited that represent Spinefish as a sweet-sour fruit of creative collaboration. I believe I will be publishing our newcoming releases there as well as I find the service to be one of the best of its kind.

Our gothic avantgarde metal album Vortex is finally out! The Italian netlabel Ekleipsi is the publisher. The album is available on CDs as well as in mp3 for free and legal download.

Check out our page on Ekleipsi for more information.

Download the whole album here.

Well, this is my first post here… I’ve been thinking about creating a video for Spinefish for a long time. Though I’ve got several ideas, I have no possibility of realizing them yet. A screensaver became the best form of visualization of my ideas at this point. It seemed to be the simplest way to combine the music and the video, and make the music absorbed not only by our ears but by eyes as well (as most of us are slaves of visual perception).

If you draw attention to the other side of our tangled world (that usually means just human relationships), you would see how touching and majestic nature is in its each display: whether it’s an ochre sunset or a cold seastorm. If you could have just a slight look at the earth from above, you would understand how small and lonely we are, moribund creatures of flesh in a great universe of stone, dust and vacuum.

Download:
Vortex Interlude Screensaver (with installer)
Vortex Interlude Screensaver (without installer)

~Gmayalohren~

Hardly have I returned to senses after the “breaking news” about the release of Fool’s Paradise Revisited on AFmusic, when another surprising event happened. Today AFmusic’s compilation entitled 25 has come out and we are among the participating artists. Surprising because Falk, the boss, told us about his intention to include our track only yesterday and we, a bit perplexed, just said yes. And today we have found ourselves among such amazing artists as Thora, Emerald Park, Noctiflora, Curious, All:My:Faults, The Search, and many others :) It’s nice when things go rapidly.

An excerpt from the press-release:

“25 publications, more than 150,000 free downloads, bands from Germany, Sweden, Russia, Italy and Brazil - this is the shorthand for the fledgling Netlabel afmusic. Specialized in the rather gloomy sounds of Dark Wave, Gothic rock, Indie, Alternative and Industrial Rock, it’s time for a brief look back…25, the summary of half a year working with great bands and an outlook on what will follow.”


See more information on the 25’s page on af-music.de.

Yeah, the compilation is available for free download. Use this direct link to download the zip-archive.

P.S. Gmayalohren and I have listened to 25 today and it left quite positive impressions in us. AFmusic does good work and we are sure we have found the proper publisher for our forthcoming album ;)

This September is going to be fruitful for the band in terms of music publishing. Our latest Fool’s Paradise Revisited will see the light on German AFmusic (apart from Vortex that comes out on Ekleipsi). The release of the album is scheduled on September 22. Among the artists that are on AFmusic there are All:My:Faults, Thora, The Search, Noctiflora, and some more remarkable bands. We are happy to join the family ;)

A few words about the album. Fool’s Paradise Revisited was recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered in our HLL studio in spring-summer 2007. The album consists of 13 pieces of 2003-2007 made with the style and sound that we have developed to date. Thus, it’s a kind of our renovated anthology.

Well, for the first time ever I’m starting to feel a little bit more significant, heh :)

The album Vortex is sheduled to be released on Ekleipsi in September. Ekleipsi is an Italitian label, offering dark music. Vortex was recorded, mixed and mastered in our now rebuilt and upgraded Hairslide Land’s Leas studio in May-July 2006, but hasn’t got enought distribution since then. We are sure our collaboration with Ekleipsi will make our work known, listened and appreciated by much more people, who love dark and obscure music.

We have finally set up our “About” page.  So it is no longer “under construction”. The things said there are true and I am fascinated about the way Spinefish is progressing.