Tuesday
02Mar2010

Noone Lasses is now up CD Baby and iTunes

Hi Everyone,

I am excited to announce that my cd, Noone Lasses, is now for sale on CD Baby and iTunes. If you live in Portland and want to get a copy in person just should be an email. 

I am really excited with how the whole package turned out.  The tunes sound great, i really like the sequencing, the artwork is beautiful, and it all fits together so well as a whole. Thanks to Doug, Steve, Cass, and Mike for being a part of it. 

If you have bought or downloaded the album and have any comments, questions, or feedback feel free to post them to comments.  I am always happy to talk about music. 

 

Thanks,

Anton

 

Tuesday
02Mar2010

CD Review on SixtySevenmusic.com

There is a nice little article at www.sixtysevenmusic.com about my and my album.  SixtySeven Music is a local organization here in Portland that works to promote and support irish music in the Northwest.  They have a weekly podcast and radio show.

Article Link

It looks like i am playing at their one year anniversary party in April, and may be appearing on their radio show sometime soon. 

Thanks Sixty Seven music for the nice review.


Anton

Wednesday
24Feb2010

CD's have arrived!

The Fedex truck pulled up this morning with five boxes for me, 500 copies of my new CD.  I am pretty excited, its so neat to see it in person, the artwork looks great, and i am happy with the whole package. 

They should be available for mail order from CDBaby.com in a week or two, and iTunes not long after that. I will be sure and post something up about that. If you are in Portland and would like to buy one from me in person just get in touch via email.

 

Anton

Sunday
31Jan2010

My CD is off to the manufactuer

Just a quick note that my cd is off to the manufacturer, Copycats Media.  I went with them on the reccomendation of Little Brother over on the Acoustic Player Magazine Forum.  He recently came out with a cd and used them for manufacturing.  I picked up a copy of the album, and the print quality and packaging looked good, plus Copycat quoted me a good price for a run of 500 real cd's.  Most places the price break comes at a 1000 units, so orders below that are to expensive, or you can get them as CD-R's, essentially the same as a burned cd from your computer.  I want this album to be a legit manufactured CD, not a burned cd, so i am glad i found Copycat.  Worth checking out if you are looking to manufacture some cd's.  

Check back here to see when its for sale, i imagine that will be a few weeks.  My plan is to sell physical CD's and downloads through CD Baby, as well as downloads through iTunes.


Anton 

Thursday
21Jan2010

Lord Mayo - Clawhammer Guitar

So I finally got around to recording that version of Lord Mayo for clawhammer guitar mentioned a while back.  Sorry for the delay.  I had to order a Third Hand Capo to make it work.  The Third Hand Capo is pretty cool, it lets you capo only individual strings while leaving others open.

In my case i wanted to tune the guitar gGDGCD, with the sixth string one octave above the fifth.  So i took off the low sixth string, and replaced it with a .16 guage second string.  I tuned that to B, then put the Third Hand up on the 8th fret, bringing that string to G. That put the capo out of my way, since this arrangement doesnt go that high.  Since i only needed to capo that one outer string i removed the other rubber washers, as even in the up position the open strings would sometimes buzz against them. 

So essentially i tuned my guitar to the mountain minor banjo tuning, which is gDGCD, and stuck an extra string an octave lower after the 1st string.  This is nice because i can essentially play banjo tunes, and sometimes hit that 5th string and let it ring for contrast.  Another way to accomplish this tuning would be to put some railroad spikes in a second guitar.  I know Steve Baughman does this, but i dont really want to put them on my main nice guitar.  Perhaps later on i will devote a second guitar to it. 

Anyways, so here it is.  Its just a simple recording i made at home, so pardon the few mistakes. 

Lord Mayo - Audio

Let me know what you think.


Anton