April 1, 2009: (13) New releases March 31st + news
This day I released multiple lovely releases. Those releases include:
#57: Christopher Ostrom - Audio loading, Please wait... CD
#58: My Autumn Sons - Perfect CD
#59: Johan Cederberg - Selected Recordings 2004-2006 CD
#60: We & Lisa - Dreams Within A Dream CD
#61: Probably My Son - Good Morning, Hummingbird! CD
#62: The Mother Z's - The Mother Z's CD
#63: Mr. Wright - Diary Of A Fool CD
#64: Chapter 29 - Playing In The Rooms Of Twilight CD
#65: The Three Potato 4 - Album Savant CD
#66: Mike Downey - Total Hearts CD
#67: Malkovic - Little Estrada CD
#68: Landerim - Shallow Draw CD
#69: Forever Instant - Diversity EP CD
Within the month of April you will be able to download for free (3) songs from each of those new releases. If you would fancy owning any of the new releases or previous releases find them in the Series Two shop.
At the moment as many of you may know I have been helping to organize Nebraska Pop Festival. The link for the page is www.myspace.com/nebraskapopfestival. It's being worked on extensively at the moment. The dates the festival will be held are August 27, 28, 29 and 30th and it will be in Omaha, Nebraska. There will be 20+ pop bands that will appear.
Other interesting news:
My dear friend Rafa in Spain has put out a new comprehensive 200+ pages Zine. For more information contact Rafa @ http://www.myspace.com/yellowmelodies
My dear friend Sergio in Spain has released a massive free compilation that includes only Scandinavia bands including some from Series Two. More information can be found here or contact Sergio via his myspace.
My dear friends Brian, Dione and Gary have all recently started very nice DIY Indie/pop labels. Find them here and please support them:
Dione @ http://www.myspace.com/bolinhasrecords
Brian @ http://www.myspace.com/deltonesrecordings
Gary @ http://www.myspace.com/bubblegumrecordsscotland
For those that love pop festivals. There will be (3) very interesting one's coming up. Those are (look up the info and links via google):
NYC Pop Festival *Strega from Series Two will appear.
Indietracks UK * Le Man Avec Les Lunettes from Series Two will appear.
San Francisco Pop Festival *Springfactory from Series Two will appear.
BSBTA of Denmark has released an interesting new low cost 2 CDR compilation. The compilation includes a few artists from Series Two and remarably contains over 30 great pop bands that i've never heard of until this compilation. For more information go to www.myspace.com/workaholicsonholiday
Series Two artist The Odd Fiddler lists his "ten crucial records" here
Marie from France wrote a very lovely article about Series Two Records in French. You can read it here
Have a nice spring everyone and stay in touch. Thanks very much for your overwhelming support and for your friendship.
hugs, Christopher
February 16, 2009: Eggnog Series Two EP Club
Series Two Records of (Nebraska USA) and Eggnog Records of (New Zealand) are teaming up and cooperating together in releasing 3'' inch CD/EP Clubs.
Each Club will come with (5) different releases hand numbered and limited to only 50 copies. Among the five releases will be (4) EP's and (1) mini compilation.
The first 3'' inch CD/EP club will be released on February 24th.
The First Club will contain the following (5) releases.
Double Dan (EP) (from Sweden)
The Argyle Wishlist (EP) (from USA)
Flannel (EP) (from Japan)
Robert Church (EP) (from Sweden)
First Club compilation including (7) songs from Death Valley Sleepers (Denmark), Eggnog (New Zealand), Desmond Reed (USA), The Elated Sob Story (USA), The Temponauts (Italy), Mike Downey (Sweden), Sweet Sweet Concorde (Sweden)
The First EP Club containing (5) different 3 inch CD releases limited to 50 copies each is available for purchase to anyone worldwide from:
Series Two Records (Nebraska USA)
or from
Eggnog Records (New Zealand)
Since this is a cooperation between two labels and only 50 total copies/clubs are made each of the two labels will have just 25 of each Club available.
The price is the same from either location. You can buy it from Series Two Records (Nebraska USA) via paypal by sending 31 USD to seriestworecords@gmail.com. Price includes international shipping costs.
You can buy it from Eggnog Records (New Zealand) via paypal by sending 31 USD to orders@eggnogrecords.co.nz. Price includes international shipping costs.
The Myspace page for the Eggnog Series Two EP club is found here www.myspace.com/eggnogseriestwoepclub
If availability is limited or sold out it will be noted on the myspace page for the EP club. Currently these are fully available : )
Orders are ready to be sent in the mail now : )
hugs,
Christopher
January 7, 2009: 9 new compilations from Series Two Records this January 20th
Track listing is finalized. In total there are 9 different Compilations on 9 different CDs with 205 total song contributions from 204 different artists and over 700 minutes of music. All compilations hand numbered and limited to 100 copies.
Artists from the January compilations by Series Two Records include those located in 13 different states of the USA, Canada, Australia, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, France,Italy, Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Croatia, Indonesia, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Brazil, Belgium, Switzerland, and Israel.
These prices includes shipping costs to Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia and most other places. The Series Two Records Compilation sets will be limited to 100 sets only. Payments need to be made payable via paypal payment sent to seriestworecords@gmail.com
Volume 15 through Volume 19 (5 CD) box set is sold for 36 USD
Volume 20 through Volume 23 (4 CD) box set is sold for 32 USD
or you can get Volume 15 through Volume 23 compilations (9 CD) for 60 USD and this includes a free CD from Series Two Records when all the January compilations are purchased together.
