Leading single ‘More‘ from the album ‘Vitamin S’ is included in Dave’s Lounge podcast #183 this week.
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First of all thanks forr all the great comments about the video clip of ‘More’. If you haven’t seen it yet, have a look here, where you can also download the song for free.
If you’re a frequent buyer of music in the internet you can now also get ‘Vitamin S’ on Lala.com and Amazon Mp3.
Have a look, doesn’t it look great?
Just before the end of 2009 Sounds Like Sander’s ‘Vitamin S’ is made available on Itunes worldwide. Go and check it out in the iTunes Musicstore.
Vitamin S by Sounds Like Sander now sees it very first online release on soundslikesander.com and Bandcamp!
In between having fun and seeing amazing places over the last year and a half it has been hard work and some blood, sweat and tears have been shed…. and now here it is…
You can listen to the music by going to the music section, or go directly to the place where you can download Vitamin S.
The single ‘More’ is available as a free download and features a video that we shot in Fiji and Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
Here are some things that you can look forward to coming to soundslikesander.com:
- A physical release of Vitamin S.
- Bonus downloads of songs and stories behind the music and the travelling.
- Vitamin S will soon be available on all the major digital music platforms like eMusic, iTunes and Amazon Mp3
I hope you enjoy the music. Keep it fresh and let me know what you think…. really…. let me know how you like the music! I am looking forward to reading your opinions so feel free to leave a reaction here somewhere on the website.
Here’s ‘More’…..
If you can’t see the video on Vimeo, check it out on Youtube.
I was recently riding my bike in Noumea, New Caldonia, clearing my head while listening to some new music. I ended up on a desolate beach and had some fun with my camera and a little tripod:
Not so much in the ambient music category (or how ever you want to call it) but there are a few other releases (other as in: other than the ‘Vitamin S’ release) this month that I am very excited about. In fact, a few of the people that I admire the most musically are all coming with a new album around the same time.
Bass player Richard Bona will be coming out with a new album called ‘The Ten Shades Of The Blues’, on which he will playing upright bass for the first time as I can tell from the album cover. I am sure he will blow me away on that as well.
It’s been a while since Sting came with a new album pop album, although we did see him with The Police of course and he released an album with the music of John Dowland. ‘If On A Winters Night’ will not be a pop album like we know from him either, but it will consist of old English folk music, probably combined with some of Stings’ magic spices.
John Mayer’s ‘Battle Studies’ will be coming out midway October. Of course he already proved himself with ‘Continuum’ about tree years ago, and that’s probably why I am even more looking forward to his new album. Also kind of wondering how many more semi-sophisticated theories about life he wants to tell us about, I’m just in it for the beautiful music.
Although I would not like to compare my self in any way to these icons, it is a beautiful coincidence that ‘Vitamin S’ will be released around the same time. In fact, things are looking good, and at this point it looks like ‘Vitamin S’ will see the light of day within a month from now!
I have one of those good old 80gb Ipods Video. I love being able to take all my music with me, although I put a lot of music on it that I never listen to. Still I put it on there, either I think I will listen to it later or I just want to have it with me in case.
Every once in a while I accidentally run into something that I have never listened to (here’s a tip for apple for the new generation iPods or iTouchs: how about a function called ’surprise me with something I have never played before’) and this time I ran into something by Hermeto Pascoal, a Brazilian icon, probably because I played my ‘Brasil’ play list on shuffle.
I love Brasil, I had a great time there meeting people in Fortaleza in 2005 during a visit for a cultural community project, and I have always had an interest in the music, the culture and the people from Brasil.
I also think Portuguese is the most beautiful language in the world. The sounds of the language and the way they sing the words is just beautiful. (That is why a ugly woman that speaks Portuguese can still be the most sexy in the world).
Back to Hermeto Pascoal: I played the song on my iPod where Hermeto puts music to a conversation (I have no Idea where he got it from or what they are saying). He plays the melody the people in the fragment are speaking, very beautifuly and inventive.
Check it out for yourself and I hope this way I can help you fall in love with the Portuguese language and Hermeto Pascoal.
I took some time off to finish a few last recordings that had to be done for my cd. I wasn’t happy with my bass sound inside so I took my recording setup outside.
Found out that there’s nothing better than playing bass outside around dusk on a summer night….
So if you hear upright bass on my upcoming record with birds whisteling in the background, it wasn’t on purpose 
In the Seychelles I came across what looks like the perfect beach after a half hour walk through the jungle. It seems that there’s nothing but perfect beaches in The Seychelles. If you have a chance to go there: go!
Yes, that is me on that plamtree.
A great idea in this blog from David Harrell about pricing on iTunes and how customers can be incuraged to purchase a whole album:
“Allow variable pricing for individual songs based on purchase order. That is, charge more for the first track a customer downloads from an album, but then charge that customer less for additional downloads from that same album.
If, as far as the major labels are concerned, the “cherry picking” of individual songs is the evil downside to online digital sales, then, in exchange for a higher profits on the first song or two purchased, they might be persuaded to accept lower profits on further purchases from that album, along with a different pricing structure for older albums”
Digital Audio Insider – A multi-track pricing strategy for iTunes?
