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this is cool

this is a start that will automatically put the buttons value in the search field and than return the search if it is on the same page as the search bar

and not only friending or whatever but install the rss feed from there i think – still really confusing.

sean rowe to me
show details 11:04 AM (12 minutes ago)
Jules, i attached a PDF check it out. On my personal blog i posted a link to The deerhunter/star slinger earphoria post …and guess who appreciated it.
Cool stuff!

Jules Esh to sean, Kent
show details 5:52 PM (0 minutes ago)
Sean – this is great!

Love the post and the music. Incredible – I’ve been trying to get into Deer Tick like a good book. You did it!

Thank you for implementing these features! Do you think we could use that for all of the audio tracks? I’ve attached Kent because he is very involved in the web development of earphoria.fm. Please feel free to continue making posts and improving features – this is what it’s all about! I am including a link to our web development doc where we keep all the information related to our website. Please feel free to tool around and see if you are interested in any of the work for hire. And if you are wanting to make my day – it would be wonderful to have the information you have gathered and change in relation to the audio player documented there under the player section. With all the difference minds working on this, it’s tough to keep everyone on the same page.

The next important steps when posting are to put down as many key words and tags as you can think of, allowing people to connect with your post from other sites and referencing things that appear in the post. Ex. lyrics, instruments used, musicians that are similar to the artist. Another thing we are trying to implement are links associated to the featured content. Ex. Artist website, downloads, other videos, sponsor sites branching off from tags. Another thing I would encourage you to do is begin connecting friends with your post, just like you would with your mix’s. If you want to sound official you could say that you (your mixes or music preferences) are being featured on earphoria.fm, or that you have started collaborating with the music blog, earphoria.fm. I think you get the picture. But please encourage your friends to check it out. We have a facebook rss that is pretty helpful to connect to as well – but as with everything – i’m still working out the bugs

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So i gave it a shot.. i got a post up there and the audio files play but they open up into a quicktime window ..becuase you dont have the “sound stream bar” on earphoria yet.. i dont think but its basically like a bar that would be at the bottom of that page that allows you to play all mp3s without leaving the page.. im sure you know what im talking about.. http://www.gorillavsbear.net/ has it if you take a look. Ill look into it http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/

I also tried embedding soundcloud players which is pretty sweet (both my songs just so happen to be upload onto soundcloud.com) but the files only played when i had the website open.. weird maybe you need an account.

Another issue is the image i made and uploaded.. I chose the “make this the (something?) image” when uploading it so it would come up on the main page and somehow the image is also displaying on your “can you …shared contacts API? post. Sorry bout that

I think i got it.. Tell me what you think, is this what you want? How could it be better? More review/text?

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So i gave it a shot.. i got a post up there and the audio files play but they open up into a quicktime window ..becuase you dont have the “sound stream bar” on earphoria yet.. i dont think but its basically like a bar that would be at the bottom of that page that allows you to play all mp3s without leaving the page.. im sure you know what im talking about.. http://www.gorillavsbear.net/ has it if you take a look. Ill look into it http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/

I also tried embedding soundcloud players which is pretty sweet (both my songs just so happen to be upload onto soundcloud.com) but the files only played when i had the website open.. weird maybe you need an account.

Another issue is the image i made and uploaded.. I chose the “make this the (something?) image” when uploading it so it would come up on the main page and somehow the image is also displaying on your “can you …shared contacts API? post. Sorry bout that

David Gray is not one to rest on his laurels; 12 million album sales, the
best selling album in Ireland ever with ‘White Ladder’, a BAFTA
nomination for his soundtrack work on Amma Assante’s 2004 film ‘A
Way Of Life’. Two Ivor Novellos, a Q award, two Brit nominations, and a
Grammy nomination.

Those laurels, in fact, might not be an actual pain in the arse, but they
certainly make him fidget.

“I didn’t have a masterplan but I knew that I was gonna make some
wholesale changes at the end of making ‘Life In Slow Motion’,” the
singer-songwriter says of his 2005, No.1 (seventh) studio album.

“I’d had a really good run, I’d built a band with some great people. But
the creative spark that had been there, that [1998’s] ‘White Ladder’
was born out of, was sort of gone. I just felt there was a need for some
new energy and a new impetus to the whole thing. I was hungry.”

“I wrote ‘Draw The Line’ in June 2007,” he recalls of the song that gives
his new album its title and the song, which lit the touch paper for the
rest of the album.

Over the next two years Gray kept up that standard. New songs galore
‘lurched’ from his fingers, featuring guest vocal turns from Jolie Holland
and Annie Lennox. ‘Draw The Line’ is the sound of an artist turning his
lens, his camera, his vision outwards, providing an extrospective take
on the world.

“I’d been very introspective for whatever reason,” he admits. “Partly
success, partly things that happened in my life around the time of
‘White Ladder’. I guess as a singer-songwriter you’re gonna have a little
bit of that anyway in your makeup. My previous records were inward
most of the time. But suddenly with the song ‘Draw The Line’ I’d kicked
the front door down and I was outside. The world was my oyster: that’s
what I felt as a writer.”

Pitching up in his studio of The Church, Gray set to work on his self-
produced record, with esteemed assistance from his band. ‘Stella The
Artist’ was an early favourite, a punchy song with an almost Glitter
Band-ish intro.

“It’s fun basically,” says Gray. “It just became this wall of sound. And
the lyrics are pretty much the first things that came into my head. It’s
me singing to the muse. ‘Stella’ is the giver of wherever all this stuff
comes from.”

She was prolific that week. Gray wrote three other songs in a matter of
days. One of them, ‘Fugitive’, would become the album’s lead single.
It’s built around nape-prickling piano and electric guitar, and soaring
contribution from a gospel choir.

“I’ve been a fugitive from life, I’ve been hiding in my bubble. And I had
this image of Saddam Hussein being pulled out a hole in the ground.
That’s where the “mud streaked fugitive” line came from. It’s about
hiding from life, from yourself. It’s saying: don’t forsake it all because
there’s something keeping you upright and keeping you walking down
the street. And that force was coming flying out of me.”

The songs kept flowing and for ‘Kathleen’ he had plans of a
collaboration. American singer-songwriter Jolie Holland had supported
him in the US, and he realized she was the perfect backing vocalist for
what he had in mind. “On the tree of American music she is a rare
thing these days,” he enthuses. “Utterly authentic, a natural, she sounds
like she could have been singing in the 1930s with Blind Willie McTell.
She’s got the blues in her blood.”

For the album’s epic finale, ‘Full Steam Ahead’, Gray also had big
vocal ideas. Initially he thought the ‘Righteous Brothers-style’ song
needed another male vocal. Chris Isaak was top of his list.

“It’s a song with quite dark sentiments. I see it as a broad political thing,
I think of the line from TS Eliot, ‘a patient etherised upon a table’, that’s
the state we’re in as a collective mass. We’re just sedated, talking shit.
We’re so disconnected from the guts of life most of the time. But it
would have sunk under its own worthy weight with another male singer
singing with me,” he laughs. “When I was demoing it with my own
voice it was like two bullocks braying in a field – too testosterone!”

Enter Annie Lennox. “She has the presence and that little bit of bite.
She’s got enough attitude that she could carry the lines off with some
real presence. She’s got a tough voice. But when she came in not only
did she bring that but she brought this joyous, pop energy – she lifted
the song and gave us the chorus we were asking for.”
‘Draw The Line’ is the warm, fresh, organic sound of David Gray in a
new, revitalised light. He had all the success in the world, and more,
but he was hungry for more – not more success, but more feeling. More
heart. More soul. More songs. More life. The formula had become a
stale and worn one.

“Hunger is a very accurate appraisal for how I feel,” he says. “I got to
say things as a writer that I’ve obviously been dying to say for years.
Songs like ‘Nemesis’, ‘First Chance’ and ‘Draw The Line’ were so
liberating. Images and ideas just flowing out and a bit of humour as
well, and a bit of caustic soda ground in there too. A bit of spice to the
whole thing. The camera was suddenly panning everywhere. It was just
a wonderful feeling. I just feel very, very alive. That’s the feeling that’s in
‘Draw The Line’.”

Overall Critique:
This is amazing. Really beautiful piece of work thanks to all involved!

Great job catching the best of this interview. Is this the genius of your transcription Beth?

Color: James, can we darken frame to saturate color of bright lights to make them look as though they providing needed light for the interview. Without loosing appropriate shadows?

Full Session/vs Individual Questions. Should be break this up for release as well?

Can we get an audio excerpt of the entire interview for download as well?

Time Code: (is there a good way to do this for the future? – seems like lots of extra work to type out separate every time.

0:00 Add Earphoria Logo with ‘Session with David Gray”

0:16 Photo’s seem cheezy but I’m not against them.

0:50 Can we slowly bring in the instrumental piece of the song.

1:00 Love the intro, nice job lining up the supplemental audio.

1:10 Is it possible not to drop audio so drastically? Are there words behind it? Might be worthwhile to slowly drop out completely and dub in another song with out words during another question. Love the music background without words,

1:40 Just noticed the albums, awesome!

3:00 Instrumental behind here for example sounds amazing and really adds to the interview. Volume could even be slightly increased to build thoughts.

1:20 Should we add subtitled questions? This may help to break up the interview into sections. And should we take out audio of the first questions I asked since it is the only one, or is it more effective to introduce the interviewer?

4:20! frames are an awesome and interesting touch. Brilliant.

5:00 Noticed lots of white noise in the interview. Is there anyway to take any more of this down? Will?

7:45

Made possible through the collaboration of:

earphoria.fm

producer: jules esh

videographers: will moxham and lydia palazzolo

editors: will moxham, kent webber, and jeramy pinkwater

special thanks to
Press Here Publicity pressherenow.com
Chicago’s Auditorium Theater