@rahve: of course you can help. i'll tell you how. you're going to be involved in some of the fun when you visit anyway.
first, check out our website at
www.ragedrecords.com. it's kind of empty, therefore any proposal is welcome. tell me how you'd like it to be, and we'll turn your wishes into reality.
this applies to everyone else too.
the war plan is as follows. this week we're going to start on our first proper band, the three records on the website being the varied offspring of my business partner andrea in his numerous incarnation.
this band is called "the prisoners", a local punk '77 act. we're putting out an EP called "la solita storia", please download the tracks at
http://80.116.231.163/upload/files/La Solita Storia/
and let me know what you think.
important rule: we, the label, are not here to say if we personally like them or not. we're signing them on the grounds of their potential (of course we shouldn't hate them as well, but it's not mandatory that they are our next favorite band). these guys have a good local following and we think we could easily press 1,000. the question you have to ask youyrself is: what should be done to better the quality of their music? to give you an idea, i think that since they have so many lines ending with accented words (esp. tune number 3) there should be some work on backing vocals, drumrolls and guitar shreds at the end of the verses/choruses.
we're meeting them this week to discuss the timing of their release. then for one month we're going to be present at their rehearsals and try to enforce our ideas on the quality of the actual playing. we're focused on giving better quality to the natural traits of the band, in this case aggression in particular: it's obvious that they want to take it out, but the poor recording and some bad musical choices smother it a bit too much. moreover, i think i know what they want to say with their lyrics and i also know a better way of saying the same thing. you get the picture.
after this pre-run, we're taking them into andrea's home studio for the actual recording. then we'll work like slaves mixing and mastering, then we'll get the CDs in may and send them off touring for the summer.
we also have another band in the works, melodic punk rockers bonnie parkers. check them out at
http://www.benicetomommy.com/bonnieparkers/ . those are a bit more on the local rock star side, therefore the work will be different - we're not launching them, we're keeping them on the wave.
i am also very keen on SHARPS razzapparte, and would love to sign them. their tunes are available at
http://stage.vitaminic.it/main/razzapparte/all_tracks/
. andrea is not much of the oi! type, and we don't have the money now anyway, but that's the next project in my dream world.
i'm waiting for feedback. hurry hurry.
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