Month: April 2010

Three Graces Part 2 – Jane Siberry

II. Queen Jane Approximately Jane Siberry, like Joni Mitchell, is from Canada.  From the mid eighties through the early nineties, I still scoured the radio dial looking for something, anything to inspire. From what I heard music was continuing its long slide begun in the ‘70’s. I was about to tune out for good.   If…


Three Graces Part 1 – Joni Mitchell

The Three Graces, Antonio Canova, The Hermitage I. Tangled up in Blue First there was Joni….


Convergence

A frank discussion of the blurring line between “License” and “Royalty Free” production music. Twenty years ago, all music libraries were “License” – i.e., they only offered music on a Needledrop (or per-use) basis, or by Annual Blanket. Around 1990 “Buyout” or “Royalty Free Music” libraries appeared.  This was before the internet allowed for individual…


Introduction

In a couple of weeks my production music library, Manchester Music, will be launching a new website, designed and developed by the fine folks at Ascend Marketing.  They advised me that starting a blog to publicize it was de rigueur. So here I am, and here’s the pitch: Customers will be able to search and browse our catalog…


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