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Please visit my website at fronzarp.com

Home recording from my DIY music project of 2012, in which I wrote, self-produced and release a new song every 2 weeks throughout the year in my home studio with very minimal gear, Laptop, protools + Mbox and Shure Beta58

And making its debut here for this, the 6th release in the “Tiny Crooked Orchestra” project... would you please put your hands together for... (trumpet fanfare)... OUR FIRST SONG IN A MAJOR KEY. Ever the rarity amongst the Fronz Arp back catalogue, it only really finds its way into a song when the happy atmosphere it creates is offset ironically with dark lyrical content. This song, about facing the scary unknowns outside in the dark, is a perfect example of that.

Over the past couple of months I've been fine tuning the geekery behind this project. The aim was to use available web tools and services to make my music available on an ongoing basis, as an alternative to the release of an album with the 'hard-sell' to follow. The other aim was to see if the structure could be relatively 'transparent', in that I want to spend as few hours as possible locked in struggle coding, uploading, emailing, hassling, going fuckin' crazy... I want to be focussed on the writing and producing part of the job, hopefully then plugging the resulting song into the juggernaut so that it fluffs out the other end without too much in the way of technical constipation.

Its been a long held belief of mine that the musicians are under the very-false impression they are in competition with each other and this only serves to isolate them. Especially in the case of the independent musician, who is trying to be a creator and musician (a full time job in itself) at the same time as stringing together enough knowledge to run themselves as a business to some degree. Without letting myself rant too much about THAT particular topic (believe me, there have been rants), this is the first structure of what I expect to be a somewhat evolving beast. What I use may very well change dramatically throughout the course of the year, but such is life when dealing with technology.

So, I use BANDZOOGLE (a website builder based on a graphic editor with features specifically aimed at musicians) to construct the core website. I make the songs available on iTunes and its major competitors (Amazon, Google Music, etc) using TUNECORE. Then BANDCAMP to offer a more 'personl' sales option, with its flexibility of download format and pricing structure (pay-what-you-want, download code, email signup, etc). Content on Bandcamp also becomes available in a range of sharing options, widgets easily embedded on websites, emails and all the major social networks. After all, this project to some degree lives and dies by the ability for the music to circulate.

Once the music is out, I use social networks to get it in front of current fans and interested-types, first step is to of course contact my mailing list and facebook fans, but then to also push out as much as possible to new listeners. I've had some success using Soundcloud and Reverbnation, but also Youtube, Tumblr, LinkedIn, The Sixty One, Outbound Music and Triple J Unearthed. The final step is always to contact the growing list of digital and internet radio stations.

I this geekery part of the project interesting as well, but mostly in a way where I think its important for the 'independent musician' to be able to set this up in such a way that it can be forgotten about. I hope to streamline all this further so that it can leave even more space to the creation process.

Thanks for letting me rant lovers xx

lyrics

Magnolia
Don't go outside alone
Because I'm afraid you'll be
In mortal danger
There are monsters, freaks and whores
Who pray on lonely souls
And I'm afraid you'll be
In mortal danger

Because creeping around where us ordinary people live
Are men with knives and guns in hand
Who stand at the windows looking in from the outside
On our mothers, lovers, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons and me

Magnolia
If you sneak away tonight
I'm afraid you'll need
A guardian angel
Because intentions wrapped in words
That slide from devils tongue
And I'm afraid you'll need
A guardian angel
I'm afraid you'll be
In mortal danger

Because creeping around where us ordinary people live
Are men with knives and guns in hand
Who stand at the windows looking in from the outside
On our mothers, lovers, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons and me

I know that your worried
That you want the things you haven't got
To be the things that you are not
Well I've been in that place before
If I could wear your skin around my neck
And take you walking in my shoes
Magnolia you'd see its all a trick
To catch you when your
Down and out falling down
When you don't want to know

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from FRONZ ARP IS A TINY CROOKED ORCHESTRA, track released March 18, 2012
Written, produced and performed by Fronz Arp

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Fronz Arp Brisbane, Australia

The strange machine which is Fronz Arp grinds like a tattered, angry little hurdy gurdy. With dramatic jaunt and seesawing melodies that have been compared to weird-pop wonders, such as David Bowie and Tom Waits

“...songs full of drama and action, designed to get pulses racing and yet still sounding both intricate and adventurous” Rave Magazine
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