sometimes i'm amazed at what actually sells in decent quantas. like here in little Norway, in Oslo alone (our capital) the Thrones (an ex-melvins one man band) have sold 20 copys. that's pretty good for a band playing weird sloooow n' heavy guitar-drones. is the black box still in print over at Tzadik.com?
===== Original Message From "Remco Takken" <r.takken@planet.nl> =====
I'm not not one of these people who believes that if millions of people were exposed to John Zorn then millions of people would like John Zorn. You could advertise it all you want, but TORTURE GARDEN is not meant for everybody. But there IS a market for it, be it not as huge as the big labels wuld want them to be. I figure 35,000 is a big amount of records (Bar Khokba) when you consider it's only one title in this huge catalogue of Zorn and related musics. Torture Garden has to concur with all of the similar records out of Tzadik and Avant, let alone other people working in this fringe of noise/ metal and improv.
There's just so much of this stuff, it comes close to Eugene Chadbournes remark of the one guy selling a million records (Michael Jackson f.i.) opposed to the guy selling one record each, of a million different titles. But all in all, jazz record markets being only a few percents of the whole music buying audience, it stays relatively small.
Remco
Doesn't make it bad. Just makes it designed for a more
specialized audience. It's a miracle that records like that can get in print and stay in print, and I'm thankful for that. American corporations might be making vertain kinds of artists relatively unavoidable in terms of hearing their music -- Norah Jones leaps to mind at the moment -- but this has doesn't mean I think she's the only game in town. It's my money, it's up to me.
skip h
np: janis siegel -- i wish you love
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sometimes i'm amazed at what actually sells in decent quantas.
like here in little Norway, in Oslo alone (our capital) the Thrones (an ex-melvins one man band) have sold 20 copys. that's pretty good for a band playing weird sloooow n' heavy guitar-drones.
Those 20 people might have great record collections! But there's a lot of variables going on in your short remark. Stuff that we non-norwegians don't know anything about. So your story remains in the air a bit. isn't it true that Norway is a completely strange country record wise? With 4 million people, where most of the households own at least one Jan Garbarek album? or is this a myth? Norwegians, with their strong interest in their own musics (which I think is really cool), i haven't got the slightest idea how many non-nordic independent records there are there for sale in Norway anyway. If it's a wild event to actually see a 'strange' disc in Oslo, 20 might be quite modest for a good record that everybody talks about (OK it's a hard job convincing your friends to actually buy a great album, but 20 isn't an impossible amount if you have a strong conviction;-) Regards, Remco
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