I Am
Happy June Solstice, everyone, the longest night of the year down under and the start of winter! Shall we celebrate the darkness or the coming of the light? ยฟPor quรฉ no los dos?
Today we released a new song on our Music page for your listening pleasure. It's called "I Am" and sets to moody music John Clare's sonnet of the same title. Yes, that's real recorded rain to give you that damp-New-Zealand-winter feel.
Clare actually wrote two "I Am" poems, both in the 1840s when he was incarcerated in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. Both are excellent and can carry you to the threshold of Stillness. To cross it, simply inquire, "What am i before a thought comes to tell me?"
In other news, we're queueing up some Auckland shows for the coming months. Will update you with details in July.
And how goes our music distribution experiment, you ask? Spotify, iTunes, and all that? Well, since signing up with music distributor Tunecore last season, we've made a total of 3.28$ in music sales, all from streams. Not bad for an Unpopโข band, but will we hit our break-even target of 66$ = 31$ (Tunecore's annual fee) + 35$ (paperdragen.nz's annual fee) in nine months? Don't know. Does it matter much? Nah. That said, if you'd like to help color our ledger black, you can by buying one or more of our songs from our Music page for whatever you wish to pay. Alternatively, keep playing them on YouTube / iTunes / Tidal, but not on Spotify, the misers!