Tag Archives: independent music

Recreating my musical self with the aid of (community) gravity and other invisible forces

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 16 March, 2011

I have had a somewhat unsettled relationship with making music for a long time. It has always been a passionate one, but it has often been difficult to the point of not being an active musician for many years at a time. I always seem to return though and I’m going through that process again now. Perhaps because I’m a bit older […]

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Can we increase tangible collaboration between independent musicians?

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 18 November, 2010

Last night I awoke to find I had drifted off in front of the television. That’s never a great feeling but I happened to hear something I wouldn’t normally have which softened the blow. There was a poker tournament on and they were interviewing a young British poker player who had just lost his imaginary money and been eliminated from the tournament. […]

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Independent, impecunious and heading for the recording studio: An exhortation to prepare excellently

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 2 September, 2010

A lovely coincidence of information occurred today that give me a chance to beat a drum for using good studios to record your music, if at all possible, and to do this sensibly by preparing thoroughly for the recording sessions. The first element is a great blogpost from warriorgirl announcing the release of the She Makes War album Disarm. […]

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