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Hey Hey Hey – just a quick update. Gettin’ very excited about the next release, half a dozen tracks very near finished, sounding much to my liking

Also – coming very soon: a new video; not the one for “New Seven” that I’ve been working on but by a director who goes by the name of “La Alta”. Can’t wait!

The free download offer still stands for those who take the time to friend me either on facebook, myspace and now on reverb nation. Once you’re there just shoot a message or email to me and I’ll send you the link, and thanks!

You can get there quickly using the links in the post below or in the roster to the right.

Happy Easter – He is Risen! Love – SO

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This morning I resumed mixing on what might be the title track of the next album – “Beautiful Things”. (4/1/10 As things progress I see the possibilities for the cd’s name to change so I’ve edited out all the banter about it.)

New on the website:

I’ve tidied up the page for “Simple Work“, added some minutia for the bored and/or fans, and moved the “ingredients” info to it’s own page – where it is now much more concise & legible – and where links to the synth developers are provided right next to every synth listed, when possible.

“Tussle in B Minor” has been added to the audio player and the corrupt file for “Rollover” has been replaced with a good one. (Facebook fans recieved a free download of “Tussle” yesterday).

There are currently 7 tracks in various states of production for the next cd. If I had to pin a date on release – I’d say Spring 2011. I’d love it to be sooner – and regardless – singles will definitely be released early to fans and radio stations that accept digital. The final product will be an actual hardcopy.

Thanks for stopping by!  – SO (KM)

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.

I love coming across unreleased music that is totally worthwhile – there’s so very much available that you wish wasn’t out there. (Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some sort of overlord rating system for all music found on the internet – voted by all people, culled from all applications and sites – with votes from people who are experts in a particular genre getting more weight- and seriously bad music being tagged with engine search warnings in red like you see on yahoo: ” Warning – the mp3s offered for free on this site might suck and seriously harm your patience and disposition“. I think it’s needless to say I don’t do a whole lot of indie music trolling.

I also don’t do a lot of blogs – hardly any – but I came across this one and posted it a year or two ago before I switched to wordpress. It’s by the gentleman who created the vst plugin “Glitch” (which I’ve yet to experiment with, although I plan to). Look for the “dblue 1985″ post (don’t worry – he’s not a prolific blogger either) and download the music. A tune from it popped up on my player in the car this morning – reminded me how much I liked it! Make sure you read the description in the post. Very cool stuff (the somewhat abrasive opening track is not indicative of the style or sound of the rest of the music – for you scaredy-cats).  Enjoy! and feel free to let me know about other equally awesome electronic music out there.

Well - according to Facebook, anyway…

I’m sure I have a couple more – I hope?! But apparently not too many fans come to this site either…well if you do like the tunes and you get the unction, please stop on by to the fb site and tell the world. Here’s the link.

Meanwhile, still pretty busy with the follow-up business of the latest jazz trio cd (”There You Are”) – and getting ready for a major relocation, so not a lot going on on this front. However, I’ve helped produce a few short films (horror) with some middle school kids I work with, and of course added some music to it – under the Seven Octaves name. Here is a link to download the theme music to the “Fish Movie“.

Thanks for stopping by - don’t forget to say hey if you like. I’m disabling links in the comments box because of all the russian shemale spammers…but if you send me a link to your site (via the contact page) and I like it I’ll mention it here. Be well and Peace – Kenny

Surprise!! The old blog is gone with the cold long island wind! I’m going to look it over later to see if anything warrants re-posting. This is so I can more efficiently add media here and an rss feed elsewhere, and now you can leave comments should you want or need to.

Also – I’ve added a new “Stuff” page to the SO site which has all sorts of nonsense like links to the new facebook page, videos to a few tracks, links to reviews etc… A place for fans to completely and frivolously waste their free time.

In the slightly artistic column – I’ve been doing some extensive work on what will probably be the opening track on the next release. The tune is called “Hot Potato” – it’s pretty uptempo and pretty elaborate (24 audio tracks so far).  Still have it in the plans to release the next jazz trio cd first so the new SO cd will probably be very late 2009 or early 2010.