DAVE LEWIS a.k.a LEWISDAVE: LEWISBLOG

School's out , forever it would seem...
And that's just a tease, I know. There are some things to look forward to. Interchange went to the duplicators last Friday and should be out on the net within a few weeks. Check out some early mixes of these tracks in the MUSIC section.
 
Is physical media now obsolete? I may now simply load up new material via the site and My Space/Facebook/Reverb Nation/ Sound Cloud and enable listeners to download direct. I asked some of my students the other day what they would be prepared to pay for music downloads. The answers ranged from "nothing " to 2 pence. In fact the highest amount they were prepared to pay was 20pence - and that was for an album. And we used to claim that "home-taping" was killing music. Who gets paid along this food-chain, then?
So we'll swim with the flow and put it out for nothing- help yourselves everybody...
We'll make it back on the merchandise. In fact this is just the business model pre-Beatles. Music released at a [...]

I have put some mixes of a selection of tracks which I have called INTERCHANGE. This is a tone poem intended as film theme music and features 11 pieces with recurring themes. All the instrumentation is mine though Trev Shipston does contribute bass guitar on one track.
I am commissioning art-work for this piece at the moment and hope to have it released by the early summer. From the studio to the net to the dance-hall and thence to the shelves...