Music by Fabio Napodano a.k.a. It-Alien

the full review is available here.

funny how we didn’t know anything about this review until a CM reader noticed us.

Renoise site

CM site

OpenRadio.it, an online radio which promotes Creative Commons licensed free music, such as mine, has scheduled my song “Il Dolore delle Rondini” for podcasting on their April, the 10th show.

Thanks to Luca Bianco for choosing me!

Download MP3 (0:00min, 29MB)

Openradio.it site

"Il Dolore delle Rondini" album page

With this post I introduce a new project of mine: “Devil’s Stare”, a new classical concept album based on the idea of a visitor in a museum who, while walking through the painting showing not so much interest, gets stuck in front of a painting on a corner of which, the face of a devil starts looking at him.

The first two parts get released today:
“Entering Hell’s Doors”

“Devil’s Stare”

enjoy, and beware..

Entering Hell's Doors (OGG)

Download "Entering Hell's Doors" in OGG format

Devil's Stare (OGG)

Download "Devil's Stare" in OGG format

My friend Jenner Fusari alias NeuRoTiX has made an interesting analysis of his experience with Jamendo and Last.fm as his promotion platforms.

In his article, he shows how Jamendo has given more attention to his music, despite having much less visibility than Last.fm, and also describes how Jamendo cares to involve the artist in self-promotion.

NeuRoTiX site

Article link

Jamendo site

Last.fm site

last.fm has announced that, since March the 30th, its radio streaming service will require a subscription fee of 3€/£/$ per month.

I’m not against pay sites; I acknowledge that running a site such as last.fm costs money and these money cannot be refund through advertising only, but what really bothers me is the fact that users from USA, UK and Germany will still not require paying, because in these 3 nations last.fm already pays its bills back through advertising and current subscriptions.

this idea is completely wrong in my opinion, discriminating and senseless.

A couple of better ideas would be:
a) let EVERYONE pay, and pay less (as low as 2€/month or 20€/year)
b) give the option to buy what you use, through pre-sold straming “packets” of 1,000 songs, for those people who do not make regular usage of last.fm radio.

last.fm announcement

read last.fm announcement