Musicians, illustrators, painters and poets create a digital compilation album together, by collaborating with other musicians, illustrators, painters and poets. The result will be a free download. If you want to collaborate with us making this, contact us now! Read on for details.

UPDATED 10. November-2009: We have done some changes with the deadline, and the deadline for text/biographies/info is now on December 31, like before, while the deadline for  the songs is on January 31-2010.

Here are some details on what the next Eardrums compilation will be like, and what the “rules” for participation are. Click on the navigation links below this text to jump directly to what you want to read. Please contact us if you are interested in any way.

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THE IDEA

The next Eardrums compilation will be a collaboration compilation, with music and art, but hopefully also with poetry and other artforms too.
The songs on the compilation will be made by two and two artists working together to make something new. The artworks will also be made by collaboration, and I hope that the whole process of making this/these album/s will be done with a lot of help from the listeners of Eardrums Pop, the readers of Eardrums and the artists themselves. Like all our releases, this will also be released for free and digital only. There will as usual be an info pdf that follows the compilation, and all artists will get a presentation here, – both of the original bands + the collaboration projects. No money will be involved, either for us, the artists, the illustrators, anyone, – no one will get paid in money for this (but hopefully someone will discover your work), – this is just for the love of music, the art and creating something new.

RELEASEPLANS/DEADLINE

The deadline for sending us songs in now on JANUARY 31-2010, BUT, all the text and images for the pdf document (biographies, song-info++) must be in our hands by DECEMBER 31-2009.

RELEASE: mid/late FEBRUARY or early MARCH 2010
We need a lot of time to make this one, for several reasons. The work has started, and it is important that you contact me if you are interested or if you are considering this (-”We’re not sure, but maybe, maybe not”=contact me!).

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FOR MUSICIANS

HERE ARE THE “RULES” FOR THE BANDS/ARTISTS THAT WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS PROJECT:

Please contact me if you are interested! Contact details at the bottom of this article.

1. Make a song together with another band/artist.

2. Find a new name for your project, – not any of the old bandnames.

3. The song should be a new composition, not a cover song. If you want to do a cover song, it should be approved by us.

4. You can choose your collaboration-partner yourself. If you want to be a part of this, and don’t have a partner to work with, please contact me and I can try to find someone for you. I need to know which area you want your partner to be in, and how you prefer to work (face to face or via the internet).

5. Keep me informed during the process. There is no deadline yet, but I prefer to have some idea of what I can expect to get for the project.

The style should be warm and melodic. There are no defined limits in genre, but I personally prefer indie pop (and most of the styles you can put into that), folk-inspired songs, acoustic songs, melodic electronica or melodic experimental music. I like a lot, -also more than the ones mentioned -, so just test me and see if it is something I’d like to u