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Happy to reveal the final cover design of Melaine Dalibert - Infinite Ascent (elsewhere 012), to be released in late October as one of the three upcoming elsewhere piano series CDs. Preorder will start on Bandcamp early October. 

The album title 'Infinite Ascent' was conceived by David Sylvian who also contributed his artwork for the album cover.

"On listening to the album for first time I felt what I’d describe, for want of better terminology, a 'cosmic expansiveness'. Vibrational waves traversing the universe, a lone satellite, released from earth’s gravitational pull, spinning infinitely into the bright darkness. I ascribed to it a somewhat solitary migration. Not despite, but because of this, I found it a profoundly moving listening experience." - David Sylvian
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Starting with the upcoming releases (elsewhere 012, 013, 014), I have changed my policy about streaming as described below. 

Instead of putting new albums on streaming platforms (like Spotify) immediately upon their release, we will wait to do so for several months until we are able to recoup some of our costs from CD/digital sales via Bandcamp and direct orders.

I changed this policy after having my label's albums on streaming platforms for the past 6 months and observing the results. I was initially optimistic about streaming, expecting mainly positive effects rather than negative ones, such as increased visibility and wider recognition for the artists and my label, and these may have been attained to some extent with the help of our digital distributor. However, the reality is: the more people stream, the less our CD/digital sells, which hurts a small label like ours. 

The latest two albums on my label, which started streaming simultaneously upon their releases, have been streamed a lot compared with the past titles, which was great. But in the meantime, the CD/digital sales of these new titles are not doing so great, which is a big concern to me. My conclusion is: streaming can certainly be beneficial but mainly for major labels and big-name artists, and maybe for small labels if they have an extensive catalog already. I vaguely knew these facts, but wanted to see how streaming actually worked with my label for my own experience, and the last 6 months were very helpful for me to understand this.

So, after observing all this for the past 6 months, both positives and negatives, I decided to postpone the streaming of new titles for several months after they are officially released. Also, since we have been putting extra time and money particularly into the upcoming CD projects, including one of which fell through at the very last stage and caused us financial damage, we will need to sell CD/digital albums more than usual to cover the expenses and the loss.

It might be disappointing for you if you prefer streaming, but in order to continue my label without going out of business, I had to make this decision. I hope that you could understand the situation. Once my label has a much larger catalog, I may consider putting new titles on streaming when they are first released again. But until then, I will be careful about streaming.

If we can accumulate some CD/digital sales revenue quickly to cover the production costs, we may consider putting new titles on streaming quicker. So, please buy our new releases as CDs or digital albums if you are hoping to see them on streaming platforms soon. 😉

Also, there is one exception: we will start streaming one track, 'Horizon', from Melaine Dalibert's next solo album 'Infinite Ascent' (elsewhere 012) in early October, prior to the official release of the album scheduled in late October. Also, the label's previous releases that are currently on the streaming platforms will stay there.

Thanks for reading this long note and for your continuing support for my label!

Sincerely,
Yuko

Happy to share this Melaine Dalibert interview by Roger Batty on Musique Machine​.

... to read more, click here.

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Happy to announce a wonderful addition to the elsewhere piano series to be out in early autumn. 

elsewhere 013:
Shira Legmann - Giacinto Scelsi: Suite No.9 / Quattro illustrazioni / Un Adieu (live recording)
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​Dear customers of Erstwhile, Elsewhere, Gravity Wave,

I hope you are all safe and well-protected wherever you are during this difficult time. I will go to the post office to send out all the recent orders for our labels on tomorrow, Monday 3/23 (many thanks to those who recently bought our CDs!)

Meanwhile, considering the rapidly increasing risk of COVID-19, we are reducing the number of our post office trips for a while after tomorrow to be safe. I will wear an N95 mask and will be extra careful with the frequent use of hand sanitizer tomorrow, so no worry at all. ;)

So this could be our last post office trip for a while, depending on how the situation in NJ develops from here, so if you are considering placing an order for any of our labels or ErstDist, please let us know by email or via Bandcamp + label's website by tomorrow?

We apologize for this inconvenience but hope that this situation will be resolved safely at some point in the future, so we can go back to our regular prompt shipping routine as soon as possible. 

In the meantime, we are happy to accept any order for our digital albums from now and this is a good time to better publicize a policy we have always had: if you buy digital files of a CD and then later decide to get the CD, we are happy to credit you for the original purchase and just charge the difference plus shipping, and that is still true now. 

Also for those ordering CDs through Bandcamp, you can of course DL the files right away and then we will ship the CDs as soon as we can. 

Thank you so much for your kind understanding and generous support for our labels.
Stay safe and hope you can have a nice Sunday (at home), maybe with some good music!

Yuko and Jon

Bandcamp URL:
Erstwhile Records 
Elsewhere Music
Gravity Wave

The entire elsewhere catalog is now available for streaming services including Tidal, Qobuz, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, Google Play, etc.

The streaming preparation is still in process for some platforms, but for now, I listed all the available links for streaming below, so please check those out. I will list the additional links as they are ready, too.
This is a difficult time for everyone on earth, but I hope that you will enjoy streaming elsewhere's music and can find some comfort or peace of mind from that. (You can get the physical CDs or digital albums on Bandcamp as well as on this website, too.)

I am going to give a large share of the streaming revenue to the artists, so the more you listen, the more will go to the musicians! (FYI, the streaming services that pay the most for our music per listen are the HD 24-bit Tidal and Qobuz, so those are the best to use if possible.)
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Stay safe (and stay home if you can) while staying hopeful, and enjoy streaming elsewhere!

(Listen to the Elsewhere Music playlist on Tidal by clicking the cover images below.)

Tidal (HD 24-bit)

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Qobuz (HD 24-bit)

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Apple Music 

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Spotify

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Deezer

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Amazon Music 

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

Google Play

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

​Bandcamp (CD/Digital Album) *Partially free streaming, HD 24-bit download

Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke - Blurred Music (elsewhere 001-3)
Melaine Dalibert - Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere 002)
Jürg Frey - 120 Pieces of Sound (elsewhere 003)
Erik Carlson / Greg Stuart - Clara de Asís: Without (elsewhere 004)
Stefan Thut - about (elsewhere 005)
Gil Sansón / Lance Austin Olsen - Works on Paper (elsewhere 006-2)
Melaine Dalibert - Cheminant (elsewhere 007)
Reinier van Houdt - Bruno Duplant - Lettres et Replis (elsewhere 008) 
Shira Legmann / Michael Pisaro - Barricades (elsewhere 009)
Melaine Dalibert - Anastassis Philippakopoulos: piano works (elsewhere 010)
​The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (elsewhere 011)

​The entire elsewhere catalog is now available for streaming on TIDAL. The other platforms (like Spotify, Qobuz, ​Apple Music, etc.) have only part of the catalog up so far, but they will all have the entire catalog soon!