Would ye help oot a pair wee Scottish bloke?

Sorry for the colloquialism… how else can I announce that Faerie Tales & Other Stories is now available to buy without it sounding like I’m asking for a handout… (or begging?)

Anyway, yes my latest album can be bought (download and physical CD!) from CD Baby but you can also still stream the album from my albums page if you’re too canny to part with your hard-earned cash.

Cheers!

Terry.

After looking online and in-store I settled on a Dell Studio XPS tower with an Intel Core i7, 8GB Ram, and 2 internal 1TB hard drives. A week later it was with me (great turnaround time Dell!!!).

First thing I did was to completely reinstall Windows 7 (64 bit) because I didn’t want all the Dell resource-hungry applets running and starting up when I didn’t want. And then I thought I’d best start to install all my music software and samples.

I’ve managed to build up quite a library of music software but I thought I’d probably get it done in a day… but alas it was not meant to be. Two days later the job is done, and a massive “thank you” to my wife Sara for being so patient – I have now used up over 200GB of my dedicated music samples hard drive.

Having tried it all out this evening I must say I’m exceptionally pleased with my new setup – I also have a touchscreen monitor now too and I think that’s going to actually speed up my workflow… it’s so much more tactile (well, duh!).

Anyway, enough waffle… tomorrow I start to use it for real…! Next Purple Rhapsody album… here I come, ready or not!

Cheers,

Terry.

As this post title says… my new album, Faerie Tales & Other Stories, is now released.

Go to the albums page (http://purplerhapsody.co.uk/albums.html) and listen to all 15 tracks if you want. And, if you like it you can even buy the CD!

In a couple of weeks the album will also be available from iTunes, Amazon MP3, CD Baby, etc but they need time to add it to their databases. I’ve asked them to give it a release date of September 1st so I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for then.

So… I really hope you enjoy the album – please come back and comment to let me know what you think.

Cheers!

Terry.

So… while I’m doing all this preparation for the release, backing up all my files, and generally doing a bit of spring cleaning on my music folders on the hard drive… what do you think I actually want to be doing…?

The answer, of course, is that I want to be creating more music for the next album after FT&OS comes out. How contrary am I…?

A little bit of news about my preliminary thoughts on the next album…. it will probably be solo piano because both myself and my wife really enjoy listening to solo piano music when relaxing. It will be a challenge because a whole hour of solo piano music has to be varied enough to hold interest – but with the piano being such a versatile instrument I’m hoping it won’t be too difficult.

Anyway… I’m getting ahead of myself! Faerie Tales & Other Stories should hopefully be available by the beginning of September – it isn’t solo piano but it’s still marvellous…! Really, honestly… not just in my opinion but also according to my Dad

Cheers,

Terry.

I completed all the mixing, mastering, artwork, etc in July but didn’t crack on with getting it all sent off for printing, duplication, etc because I was going away on holiday.

I went for a night in London, followed by a cruise from Dover to Barcelona, and then finished it off with 3 nights in Barcelona. I was with my family and we all had a great time – of course now that I’m back I’m keen to get Faerie Tales & Other Stories released… so the good news is that I’ve got my master disc created, barcode purchased, everything registered in various places… and so now I’m just sitting here listening to the master disc before sending it off for replication. And then it’s down to how quickly the postman can deliver things to various places around the world!

I’ll leave you with a picture from my hols… jealous of a piano that I couldn’t play while I was on the cruise…

Cheers,

Terry.

I’ve been toying with a few ideas regarding the artwork for Faerie Tales & Other Stories. My current favourite is on my personal Facebook photos – I think everyone should have access to it regardless of whether or not you’ve got me as a ‘friend’ on there.

Direct link to the image is : Terry Robinson’s Facebook photos

Cheers,

Terry.

Empty Stage is now available to download from iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby – more download stores will be coming soon and it will also make it’s way onto Napster, Rhapsody, etc.

You can listen to it on the Purple Rhapsody home page, on MySpace, or on the player below.

Empty Stage by Purple Rhapsody

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Terry.

There has been a huge amount of interest and praise for Empty Stage since I first put it online last year. I was going to include it on my next album (Faerie Tales and Other Stories) but it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the tracks.

So, I’m releasing it as a single.

It’s just been submitted to CD Baby and should be available on iTunes in 2-5 weeks (!), and on other sites anywhere from 2 weeks to 4 months (!!!!).

You can listen to it on ReverbNation and SoundClick free and I’ll post an update when it’s available to buy.

Cheers,

Terry.

14 tracks is where the tally stands at the moment but I’ll be adding a couple more (see later in this post…) and some of that 14 need tweaks and fixing before they’re ready for the album.

I’ve had an idea about doing a slightly different kind of musical variations. There’s going to be a track called ‘Chinese Whispers’ which will introduce a theme – probably the 2nd or 3rd track on the album – and then there will be another 3 or 4 tracks which take that theme and develop it or present it in a different arrangement. The tracks won’t be long – they’ll mostly be almost like ‘intermissions’ or the ‘walking between pictures’ tracks from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. I’ve got 2 of the Chinese Whispers tracks completed with another 2 or 3 to complete.

You can here some Work In Progress versions of a couple of the tracks on my SoundCloud page – Dervish is going to be one of the Chinese Whispers tracks and In A Nutshell has been renamed ‘Once Upon A Time’. Remember that these are Works In Progress and so may change.

Anyway – another blog post later on me joining Ourstage to be judged!

Cheers,

Terry.

In between family life, work, days out, and generally having fun I’ve had a little time for my music hobby and the result is Dervish.

It starts off slowly, but picks up pace after a few seconds and turns into a capricious whirlwind of devilish mischievousness!

Well, having set your expectations so high I hope you still think it’s good when you listen to it…Use the SoundCloud player below or listen to it directly from the link above.

Dervish by Purple Rhapsody

Cheers,

Terry.