advance

fear falls burning
advance festival, 013, tilburg
january 21st 2006

guapo

out to see guapo at waterfront. nice band but not really my cup of tea. a bit too much of a contrast chord change kind of thing and a bit short on memorable melodies. venue was very nice, and could be suitable for an event in the future.

tests

both test pressings for the upcoming c releases have been given the artist’s approval. had a listen myself following the receipt of the tests this monday to find out that they have been beautifully mastered and cut at the plant. will give green light for the release tomorrow, so all should be ready by january 31st.

lacquer

finally got myself into gear for the handmade c sleeves. the actual sleeves are the easy part. they have been cut to a size of 31.5cm x 63cm and have subsequently been folded. the real work starts with the cards.the lettering has been composed with a printing kit.

texts have been set by hand. very pleased to hear theo travis was going to use eleven bowls of acidophilus flute salad as a title. for both upcoming releases, three sets of texts will be used and stamped. the first text informs on artist and title, the second one is the catalogue number and the third and final one is information on the printing.

once the 10cm x 15cm handmade cards have been stamped i'm off to another place to have the cards lacquered. for the first three c releases, i got help from maarten and carro, but decided to handle it myself this time, as the smell of the heated lacquer is by all means awful and most likely very toxic. applied all the lacquer for the fear falls burning release and will be trying to finish the theo travis one as well as the second printing of mousehill daydream this week. it's not the pleasantest of jobs but the feedback on the results has been good. makes it all worth while.

native

today's inbox includes the first two corrections send in by christopher c. he's going to revise most of the english texts sued on tonefloat. christopher is a native speaker so his help is much appreciated. translating dutch into english is one thing, writing english is another. as a result, he also took the task of revising the original english written review of the 2000 tonefloating show in delft.

aerial

picked up aerial from the wholesaler. the kate bush album. the vinyl edition, that is. 180 grammes vinyl. innerbags. booklet. gatefold sleeve with wide spine. ten out of ten. a classic vinyl release. let's hope it goes as a blueprint for the upcoming david gilmour double vinyl album that was announced this week.

inbox

a tough day when it comes to aiming to keep my inbox clean. multiple bookings for planes, trains and hotels to get travels for the uk leg of david gilmour's may tour, well sorted out before noon. actually booked a hotel by phone today. thought that'd never happen anymore in 2006. it did. and it worked.
re-registered lowlandsparadise.com today, after i'd forgot to renew that last year. a site used as portal for my lowlands page on floydstuff which i use for an ongoing and possibly neverending research for pink floyd gigs in the netherlands. 2007 sees the 40th anniversary of the first gig in holland, so it's a kind of last chance to get things off the ground this year. or not.
also announced pre-sales for the upcoming tonefloat and c releases, which usually attracts a lot of mails and questions. doing it this way is an absolute must to get things working and making it possible to have all orders out as soon as the discs have cooled down from the pressing plant. inbox is down to 28 now which means i can see all on my screen.

progressia

received reviews for both cd's by the use of ashes currently out on tonefloat. ice67 and the castle of fair welcome are discussed in the excellent french webzine progressia. a collection of use of ashes reviews can be found in a special reviews section on the band's site.

vinyl

some good news for those into coloured vinyl. it wasn't possible to have our records in multi-coloured vinyl because of quality restrictions. our record plant is a company that puts quality first and was not impressed by the previously available multi-coloured vinyl which used to be mixed at the moment of pressing. we can now have our records pressed in flamed multi-coloured vinyl in the same high quality standard we and you have become used to. c releases will remain on clear vinyl, but tonefloat first pressings only will issued in flamed multi-coloured vinyl. tf23 and tf24 will be the first ones to have this special treatment.

continuum

a very fruitful email correspondence this morning with vidna obmana's dirk serries about a vinyl compendium to the vidna obmana vs bass communion continuum cd, which was originally released in march 05 by the u.s. soleilmoon label. four 19-minute recyclings, based on the original material, are scheduled for release as a 2lp later this year on tonefloat.

c

one.one

uploaded the new design for tonefloat.com, which goes very well with the lay-out of this log. one should say the log goes very well with the site, but it's the design for this log that inspired a much needed overhaul for the site.

spoke to peter about a possible recording session outside his continuing work for the use of ashes. nothing confirmed yet, and with several pros and cons we'll see where it ends.

c