I just found this
hope the albums good eh
New CF album
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The "demands made" past and present relate directly to our artistic freedom and - perhaps even more to the point - our artistic integrity. These topics are extensive (and not: "expensive"), and they are usually connected to a trade-off of control of an album between the record company and the band. The company is usually afraid the band will go too far (especially in the case of CF) to still attain any commerical success and the band is usually concerned about the record company compromising an artistic concept or vision.
This process is magnified in the case of the new album, because it incorporates an *extremely* wide range of musical material, and some very radical views. Needless to say, this is why the "Probe" album we are working on right now pushes all these principles to the max. As did every other unusual album CF ever did, TMT and ITP.
As for the financial contents of the contracts on our desks right now: the 1980s are long gone, my friend, and the monetary amounts that are realistic now are outright meager in comparison. Especially for a high-risk album like ours, for which nobody - especially not the band - can guarantee any particular sales figures.
By the time the album will see the light of the day in 2003, we will have invested *at least* as much money in it as the record company, if not substantially more. We, and I in particular, have been financing the travelling, equipment, writing, and many recording sessions for this new CF album for over two years now, and we will still finance a significant amount of the production ourselves until industry money will come into play. And there is no way in hell any record company will ever reimburse us for all of this, unless the album will be an outstanding success.
in the name of the the entire band
Tom Gabriel Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland
hope the albums good ehNew CF album
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The "demands made" past and present relate directly to our artistic freedom and - perhaps even more to the point - our artistic integrity. These topics are extensive (and not: "expensive"), and they are usually connected to a trade-off of control of an album between the record company and the band. The company is usually afraid the band will go too far (especially in the case of CF) to still attain any commerical success and the band is usually concerned about the record company compromising an artistic concept or vision.
This process is magnified in the case of the new album, because it incorporates an *extremely* wide range of musical material, and some very radical views. Needless to say, this is why the "Probe" album we are working on right now pushes all these principles to the max. As did every other unusual album CF ever did, TMT and ITP.
As for the financial contents of the contracts on our desks right now: the 1980s are long gone, my friend, and the monetary amounts that are realistic now are outright meager in comparison. Especially for a high-risk album like ours, for which nobody - especially not the band - can guarantee any particular sales figures.
By the time the album will see the light of the day in 2003, we will have invested *at least* as much money in it as the record company, if not substantially more. We, and I in particular, have been financing the travelling, equipment, writing, and many recording sessions for this new CF album for over two years now, and we will still finance a significant amount of the production ourselves until industry money will come into play. And there is no way in hell any record company will ever reimburse us for all of this, unless the album will be an outstanding success.
in the name of the the entire band
Tom Gabriel Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland
