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Chain D.L.K. has given a favorable and fun review to “Nativity Set”.  Hooray!!

I wasn’t expecting reviews really; for most magazines and sites I merely sent an announcement for them to post.

“Nativity Set” has been my introduction to online-only releases. Getting airplay has been tricky this time out. Radio is in a greatly transitional stage as far as medium goes. A handful of stations prefer digital submissions. Many more seem to tolerate it. An equal amount refuse to accept them. I think in a few years that will pass, since half of them already are broadcasting mp3s from a digital library. It may suck sonically, but it’s darn convenient on so many other levels. Even stations without digital libraries still have djs that show up, plug their ipod into the board and get busy that way. Many hearty thank yous to the friendly djs who have been putting this one out there.

To get a zip file of this Christmas music I done did while it’s still on sale – click hither.

Have excellent holidays, everyone and thank you for stopping by! – SO

Nativity Set – a new 5 track ep of holiday music is released today! Downloads are available at tradebit exclusively – you will not find this album at itunes this year!

So head on over to tradebit to pick up your copy for only $1.98!

Thank you so much to all the radio stations and djs who have already added “Nativity Set” to their playlists!

“Nativity Set” is ready for release – bumped up to Nov 30th, but it’s available now! For those who are already ‘in the spirit’ or just can’t wait for the holidays to come – you can get a zip file of the new Christmas ep (5 tracks and artwork) by clicking here.

Individual tracks are also available for download at the same site.

“Nativity Set”

release date 12-1-09

Pretty psyched about finally releasing a new holiday album. I’ve wanted to since ‘07 but this is the first year the music started flowing for it. Well it’s done now – yippee!! Had a good time making this one – far less stress than ’simple work’.  This will be an online-only release. It won’t be on Itunes or any of the other big shops due to time constraints – maybe next year. This year I’ll put it up as a zip file for a very delightful price (I think) of $1.98 for all 5 tracks! Here’s a page with a little more info…

DJ’s and music directors will receive direct mailings with a link. If you’re a dj or have an internet station and would like a copy just email me with a link to your site or station and I’ll hook you up.

I know it’s been quiet around here – I’m not a blogger by nature and I’ve been pretty busy promoting my trio’s latest release…but things are perking up on the electronic side of things and I’ve begun aggressively working on a new cd – finishing up the aforementioned “Hot Potato” track and starting several others. It feels great to be working/creating in this manner again. I couldn’t give an estimate on when a release will happen but I do have serious plans to pop out a Christmas e.p. in the meantime. Most likely it’ll be download only – but you never know.  I’ve also already conceived the concept for the following album – if you can stand it.

One of the synth designers I use the most is Krakli – an amazing array of all kinds of free, very well made vst’s – with totally awesome interfaces I find so enticing, and a consistency of quality and reliability I haven’t found in many of the other designers who share their synths at no charge. Through the KVR newsletter I found that Ian has just released a new synth – and was actually charging something for it (albeit only a donation) – so I knew it had to be something incredible. It’s called RMP2 and it has plenty of presets. I got myself a copy this afternoon and was not disappointed. I’m not good at describing sounds – magical is not a word you’ll ever find me using – but these are nearly that – and lush. There are audio demos over on his blog page – which is where you can get your own RMP2! Go do it!

I want to welcome any new fans who’ve come here from Facebook – since I’ve put the free mp3 post up there a lot of folks wind up around here instead – so… hey! (If you’d be so kind to go back and “fan” me sometime that’d be sweet!)

Finally wanted to give long overdue thanks to a few of the many radio stations that gave some amazing support to “Simple Work”, including: WXDU (Duke Univ.) who played it for months and gave me that sweet #1 spot, WBNY (Buffalo) who played it this spring (!) and for the not to shabby #5, WPTS in Pittsburgh gave it a lot of love (#6), WRCT (Pittsburgh), WEFT (Champaign, IL) and WBGU (Bowling Green) who spun it for the entire 13 weeks. There were many others but these were the ones who embraced it – thank you a thousand times! Thanks also to my friends at WUSB Stony Brook who are simply the coolest.

Oh yeah – I’m also working on a video for the track “New Seven” – it should be ready when it’s totally irrelevant and pointless (lol) so if you like that song – it’s gonna be fun.

Thanks as always for visiting. If you wanna show your love over at the burgeoning facebook page – here’s a link. Be well and Peace – Kenny