Nameless Isle gets title at last
05.Aug.11
- yep, it's taken a while and nearly fried our
CPU, but Nameless Isle has finally finished
rendering and now joins our little video club. It's
turned into quite an atmospheric little number.
Then again, so is the song. Hope you like it.
Movie madness
18.July
11 - had so much fun with the Bullets
movie that we've decided to do another one.
Nameless Isle (also from Shooting Star album)
will have quite a different feel; mysterious
& ethereal is the goal. We're about halfway
there - look out for a shout and a tweet when
it's done.
Bullets -
the movie
13. June
2011 - for your viewing pleasure, we've
put our backs into (and nearly out, see dune
shot) creating a wee movie to go with our song
'Bullets'. No monkeys, jesus lizards or babies
were harmed in the making of this film. See it
in the video
section below.
In
the wilderness - Blue Flux's Scotland
sessions
17. May 2011 - Just returned
from a marvelous two-week trip to
Scotland. The stunning scenery around
the Wester Ross region, long, peaceful
nights and the odd tipple of local
beverage soon fired up the old
imagination.
With the help of a friend's nearby
studio (window view on the right) we
managed to record four acoustic songs.
These are only instrumentals at present
and were captured 'in the raw', ie.
without too much undue faffing about.
Straight and simple spur of the moment
stuff. After just a minimum amout of
post processing they are now available
for free download here
as musical snapshots of our miraculous
time in the beautiful wilderness.
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Shooting Star
goes global
12. April 2011 - CDs in a box
aren't albums until they're plugged into the big
network. Well, they are now. As of today
Shooting Star is available from our independent
distributors CDbaby
and also from a growing number of online
retailers like Amazon,
iTunes,
Rhapsody
etc. And yes, for another few weeks you can
still download
two album tracks from this website for nothing
more than a courageous mouse click. Service, or
wot?
First Shooting Stars
spotted
21.March
2011 - They're here! The first CD batch
just landed safe and well. Big moment? Well,
we're getting a little excited, yes.
Blue Flux
Direct album downloads are up
19
March 2011 - all Blue Flux albums
available through BFD now sparkle with
near-youthful joy following an extended
remastering session to bring them up to current
day standard. They are now ready for download
purchase at our Shop page.
New Blue Flux website goes live
10. March
2011 - Updates will only get you so
far. Like frost-battered roads, there comes a
point when crack patching will simply make
matters worse. So it's roll up your sleeves
time. And don't even think about looking at the
long road ahead...
Well it wasn't quite the Trans-Canada Highway.
But a long-ish haul nonetheless, with many
nights stuck in mosquito-infested HTML swamps
and the odd collision with a Java-munching
moose.
The truth is that Blue Flux have always
maintained their own website, in genuine indie
fashion perhaps, and spent moneys saved on their
music instead. And with the new album finished
and taken off our hands, this has been the ideal
time for a root and branch re-write.
Hope you like the new feel of it. With so many
new features here there's little point
highlighting anything in particular. So you'll
just have to do your own exploring. Have fun,
enjoy the supple swish as rubber hits new road,
and if you really really can't contain your
excitement any longer then use the (all new,
yes) Contact
page to drop us a line.
Shooting Star has flown the
nest
28.
February 2011 - The final stages of
album production also tend to be the hardest. As
if selecting the songs that'll make the final
cut weren't tricky enough, there's a running
order to pick, album covers to design, and not
forgetting the mastering of said songs to ensure
they gel together into one coherent and
hopefully musically pleasing package.
This time - and as a Blue Flux first - we've
enlisted some help on the mastering front. Money
well spent, it seems, and many days of
indecision and frustration saved. And a chance
to focus on the cover design before the first
mastered tracks rolled in for our approval.
The final act in this long string of events is
easy, but also a bit frightening: stick
everything in a padded envelope and post it off
to the CD manufacturer. The culmination of (in
our case) nearly two years' work, and it all
comes down to a postage stamp. The second that
sucker hits the mailbox with a proud thud there
is nothing left to do but wait. No more tweaks.
Not now. Not ever. We've given it all the love
we could. Now our chick has flown the nest and
is heading for the horizon, with a few
heart-stopping wobbles and hopeful squeaks.
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