[LAU] Debut prog-rock album, all produced with Open Source!

[Will Godfrey]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 20:50:51 +0100
Ben Bell <bjb-linux-audio-user at deus.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Having seen all the wonderful Linux-produced efforts being announced here
> I couldn't resist posting this one.
> 
> Last Monday my band, Fusion Orchestra 2, released their new album "Casting
> Shadows". All the official press releases are concentrating on the normal
> sorts of stuff and I'm not supposed to get into software politics in them,
> but I'm quietly jumping up and down about the fact that the whole thing,
> from start to finish, was produced in Linux using Open Source tools. Music,
> artwork, the lot.
> 
> The bulk of the work was courtesy of Ardour (2.8.x) with mastering handled
> by JAMin. At some point I'll probably write a blog about the process of
> producing the album but for now, I'm just going to share a sampler of
> it:
> 
>   https://soundcloud.com/benjamesbell/casting-shadows-sampler/s-ad5hC
> 
> Oh, and on the off-chance anyone is interested enough to buy a copy, make
> sure you add something to the delivery notes saying you read about it here
> and for each copy sold that way we'll donate $1 to Ardour. I doubt it'll
> make much of a splash but if everyone using Ardour does something similar I'm
> sure it'll help.
> 
> And now that's all done I can finally make the switch to Ardour 3 for the
> next project ;)
> 
> bjb

Very impressed with this sampler. I hope the album does well for you.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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