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Why does music always have to be involved with money? And worse still why is there
always a mirage of money making or the idea that music should have a price?
And therefore a cost! But why should making music have a price?

And why pay to let one’ s music be heard by friends or perfect strangers on the other
side of the Earth if it truly is round?

When I take a break in between my jobs, sometimes often sometimes very rarely,I strum
the last instrument I’ ve built or repaired and the pleasure of playing and making
music is immediately back. And sometimes I’ ll stumble upon
a nice idea, a strange rythmic pattern or a catchy riff (all things I’ ll always keep
for myself, don’ t worry guys!).
But those ideas are priceless, not because they’ re particularly good but because
playing is first and foremost a passion.

My job is the best job in the world, it lets me get in touch with brilliant clients,
some of which have a surprising musical enthusiasm!

Music is above all passion and enthusiasm.

Music is priceless.

Letting one’ s music heard doesn’ t cost anything.

The results, often unpredictable, always repay of the energies spent.

Yes, I mean it, I’ m not going crazy. One of the guys I was telling you about made me
understand this.

He is a composer – musican – producer currently busy recording his second album.
His music can be downloaded for free thanks to the Creative Commons license he uses.

His first creative commons album came out in 2007 and was called “Drop
Alive”.

Thanks to the CC licence and to websites such as

Jamendo, Purevolume, Garageband, Download.com, Virb, Reverbnation, it can be listened to anywhere in the world.

“It’ s a trip that thanks to the net you can come to the attention of people who
live in Poland, Germany, the US,
Israel, Spain, France… especially if you consider that Drop Alive played something
like ten gigs -
all in Lombardy!”

And I want to add that his songs have been and are still used as soundtracks on the
web and on tv formats, obtaining positive reviews from web radios in various
countries
and is, needless to say, absolutely worth a listen (that goes without saying).

This is a concrete expression of passion for music.

Would a regular cd, with a superb content but all rights reserved, have gone that
far?

Think about it people, think…

See you soon Simon Act, I’m impatiently waiting for your next record.

See you next time.

Traslation by Simone Attivissimo