Showing posts with label The Music Business and the Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Music Business and the Environment. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Coming Soon -- Suzanne Sherman Propp: "Play"

Considering its only been 11 months since I last posted, there are probably 50+ things I could write about as I try to re-start this blog. But hands down, the most exciting project for me this year has been the CD that my wife Suzanne and I produced with our good friend Josh Margolis. We'll have hard copies by late December and an official release event in late January/early Feb.

There are a lot of considerations involved in producing a CD, from songs selection, to instruments, tempo, style, additional musicians, etc. Josh was a great adviser on all of the above. Now its time to create the physical copies, which will be expensive and also create a number of "moral hazard" type issues. For example:

Should we print the CD at all? Shouldn't we just go for downloads?
-- problem with that is we think kids and parents will want to hear it in their cars.

Should we find a way to re-use plastic?
-- Truth is, using plastic at all adds more plastic to the environment.

Ultimately the production company led us to a sleeve design that will use very little paper. So we think we made the right choice. Hope people buy them...

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