Peeling off the layers behind her music, Ella Jo has given a frank and revealing forward to her new book, Limits Of Milkweed Lyric Book.
Not only does the book give all the lyrics to the songs on the album, but she discusses the history and meaning behind the songs in the interesting chapter, The Stories Behind The Songs. This is actually a book of poetry written by herself and other music partner’s spanning the 1990s and beyond. Further to it’s literary delight, the book is peppered with her original black and white art work. It makes a great accompaniment to her album, but serves as a great poetry book in its own right.
The book shall be available by the end of 2009 and will be the first of three books to accompany her three albums. All will be available in our bookstore.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Ella Jo At Diamond Seeds
Diamond Seeds are pleased to announce the hosting of Ella Jo’s albums on our site through our on line services.
EJ has written and produced four albums to date, each with ten original songs. Limits Of Milkweed, Alter Ego, Attitude is Everything and Almost Anglo Saxon. These albums span the genres as she embraces neo folk to unapologetic popular music but also incorporates drum and bass grooves, acapella, and classic vibes of bond movie stature. All the songs are woven together with al fresco style singing and strong lyrics. The albums are enhanced by amusing sound-scapes, using interesting concepts and montaging techniques.
Nostramus back-catalouge available soon on Diamond Seeds
The Nostramus back-catalouge, will shortly be available on Diamond Seeds via online fulfillment service.
This will include a re-tweaked and mastered version of the 1997 release of ‘Earthlights’.
Also included will be the ‘Bomb Babylon’ album material, which came out to mark the artist performance at the legendary ‘Free The Spirit Festival’, hosted by the ‘Exodus Sound System’ in 1999 at the Long Meadow farm, Charlton, north Luton. This legendary live performance will become available on the new service.
The ‘Bomb Babylon’ album was scheduled as a follow-up to ‘Earthlights’ and there were only 50 copies ever made, the process was beset with problems. Since then, Nostramus has moved onto other projects including the 2003 ‘Hero Of Bamboo Stick’ EP and many remixes that have seen the light of day on various releases. Nostramus is now consolidating this ‘lost’ material into format for fresh release utilising the latest ‘web 2′ fulfillment technology.
Nostramus director Steve Spon, shall also be presenting the earlier ‘Dark-Ambient’ ‘THC’ (The Hidden Corporation) archives on the new Diamond Seeds website in the near future.
Diamond Seeds podcast
Diamond Seeds Productions is to provide a streamed monthly show, with archives, available as a podcast.
It features anyone who wants to submit their music. Our aim is to allow musicians to expose original material on the internet, without prejudice, helping to create interest in their music.
Introduction to Diamond Seeds
Welcome to the Diamond Seeds Blog.
This Blog is to accompany the www.diamondseeds.co.uk website.
We aim to create a website that will be an alternative to the mainstream. It will contain an online store for music and books, also mail order CDs and other creative products.
We are a non-corporate, commercial site, with a community flavour. Our wish is to sell our self-created wares under the Diamond Seeds umbrella. In the future you will find more of our products as our creative projects come to fruition. Where possible, we will use the latest technology to deliver our goods for the market place.
There will be a monthly podcast which will be archived for future downloads and listeners can follow up any music that is featured.
We will feature artist’s books and calendars, lyric books and music books.
This blog will have regular, useful, features, that may be helpful for artists and musicians so please check back from time to time.
A big thanks to Jim at www.internet-radio.org.uk
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