The Marica Frequency

  I actually started to write this post on the 8th of May... But held off as I was 'tamping' (as we say in Wales). Simple translation - I was fucking well pissed off.  Why? Well, up until recently, I had only ever 'heard' about streaming takedowns, fraudulent metric activity, etc, etc. This sort of shite could never happen to me - I've got too far with my music on EVERY project/band I'm involved with... Or so I thought... Long story short - my main distributor turned out to be a complete pussy who burns the whole house down whenever they find a spider.  A gutless twat.  I should really name and shame - but I have been with this distributor from the very start of my online musical journey. They are not the only distributor I use - But I do consider them my main one. This is set to fucking change - believe me! I was scratching my head on this subject for weeks - it hadn't affected one of my more successful projects - but it had affected music I had written, a

I have a real love/hate relationship with social media.  I guess I'm not the only one - it’s yet another tool that I don’t enjoy as an artist, but I'm expected to use because I make money off being creative.  The music industry has done a pretty good fucking job of convincing songwriters that social media is essential to their success. If you don't display EVERY nook and cranny of your creation on these social platforms...  Everything you create will simply disappear into a void. Of course - that's complete horse shit, but at a guess, around 75% of new artists believe this.  On the flip side of the coin - I've seen a great deal of success with showcasing/promoting/spamming (whatever the fuck you wanna call it) my music through these platforms.  Doesn't mean I enjoy them though.  I don't.  Facebook has got to be one of the worst out of the lot, but it's a necessary evil, and again - it has worked well for my music.  Facebook suffers from being a graveyard

It's been a strange week... A really strange week. I sometimes wonder if we have more control over the paths our lives take than we realize - We shape them without really trying, and this leads to us walking a dark path, more often than not.  One thing is certain though - the older we get, the stranger our relationships with time become.  Why am I worried about this? Well, I'm not... Really... But there is room for improvement inside my head.  I overanalyze most things these days, in an attempt to make up for lost time. I'm still trying to figure out if this is a good thing or not - I'm basically trying to erase the time I wasted when I was... Well... Wasted... But that's another story, for another day... The reason I wanted to write this post today, was to highlight the thoughts behind the song Aftermath , from our latest album.  The more I thought about this song and its origins - the more I realized that the song was born out of one of the most important moments,

With Lifelike Figures - Our recent album release, I took on a new way of composing and producing each song included in the project.  I used to have a set way of doing this sort of thing - very linear, and I wouldn't often stray from this path of creativity.  Lifelike Figures was a complete whirlwind. Something I just let evolve by itself, song by song, idea by idea (good or bad). The first acoustic number I wrote for the album just landed in my lap - I wrote the music and the lyrics within about 30 minutes. There was no need to change any of the progressions, or any of the literature for the verses. It was a song that found me - I didn't find it.  It's called Land Below is the first image we've published in relation to the song, and I created this post today as I feel this image is my favorite piece of art linked to my music so far. Its innocence and 'Banksy' type of feel is perfect for the song it showcases... I've also put together a 9:16 video advert usi

We've been using this site pretty much as a 'place-holder' for the last few years - somewhere to park our domain name... and not much more. I was toying with the idea of letting this domain name go, as we've never really done any sort of 'music business' through a website - we're not that kinda outfit. But, last week, I checked out a few websites belonging to musicians/bands/outfits that I respect, just to see what they use their 'internet property' for... and it turned out to be pretty interesting.  You see - I was under the impression that 'blogging', or any other form of rambling online... was pretty much dead in the water. Turns out I was wrong.  A lot of musicians and artists I look up to are using their sites as a platform to scream into the void... and I kinda like that.  Sure you can post to social media all day long, and converse with your followers, but you've got to put up with a lot of fucking twats on most (if not all) social