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kraut fist replica

by sonja berlin-jones

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MONDAY 11 MARCH

This album is a landmark in my Bandcamp career !!! - this morning I got a Bandcamp auto-email saying that I am now rich&super-famous enough to have earnt the ability to upload larger files. Isn't that fantastic. Each of my tracks can be about an hour long. Dear God. Don't worry - I won't make a habit of it.

The 28-minute limit was good for me and I think I even preferred an imaginary 20-minute limit. But to celebrate my new freedom I haven't made a new long piece of music - this piece is about two years old and was originally released on NLT and it still needed editing to fit into the new 600 MB limit. It was made way back in the days before I was on Bandcamp - back when I was a hypermaximalist. It's quite good - & different from anything I've put on Bndcamp.

As its title suggests - it sounds (to me) like a cross between early Faust and wackier Captain Beefheart. Not that I've ever much liked Captain B. But I have always loved Faust. I'm not going to plonk my entire pre-Bandcamp back-catalogue here - it would take about a decade to upload it all. But this is one of my favourite things.

Thanks to all the fans/supporters who made this new freedom possible. You know who you are. I know who you are too. What's good is that I didn't know who any of you were until very recently. It's always a hundred times nicer when a stranger says they like your stuff than when a friend does ditto. There is the comfort of strangers - the fact that they lie to you much less than your friends do.

There have been two reasons why my musical career has stalled on the starting blocks. (1) - cos my music's usually pretty crap, & (2) cos I'm a loner and not a scenester. Even if I had talent I would still be a zero. I used to spend hours each week trawling Bandcamp listening out for fresh music and every day would hit on people with real huge talent a billion times better than me - some of them even did tunes - and I envied them that beautiful skill - and I'd get the impression that I was the only person who ever heard their music.

These people had made the mistake of thinking that their talent would carry them through. Talent is useless for getting what you want - fame, money, good sex, attention, status etc. Far more important is to network. Almost everyone only listens to the music they listen to because it gives them something in common with all the other people who they know'll be listening to the same music.

Most people are happy listening to something that is crap if they know that having an opinion about it will make them more interesting and sexually attractive/conformist. Look at all the people who've heard the new David Bowie album. Including me. I could've spent those 45 minutes trawling Bandcamp and finding three things that were fantastic and unheard by anyone except the muso-creators themselves - but then I would've had to stand at the back of gigs on my lonely ownsome with no one to talk to cos no one's interested in brilliant music by bands they and their friends haven't heard of.

So I listened to Bowie. I now have a fascinating well-judged opinion of his album - that it is shit - and I'm hoping that this will be the start of my drive to fame. Every night I don't pray for talent. I pray for better networking skills - a thicker skin, a bigger self-belief, the strength to march up to influential strangers and slap them on the back and say Hi I'm Sonja Berlin-Jones and your music is shit and so is mine, but I'll say yours is good if you'll say mine is good.

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released March 11, 2013

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