NEMO : Si Partie II

Nemo,can't wait for your new cd.Prelude a la Ruine got me hooked on your music,and Si Partie 1 just planted the hook even deeper.Incredible music,keep proggin!!!!

I can't believe I got dragged into this thread. Somehow I'm getting painted as a villian here and I find myself in a position where, for some reason, I need to explain what should be a private business matter in a public forum. OK here goes!

Last year I picked up a buzz on Nemo. I contacted JP and he graciously sent me a number of promos to check out. I felt given the heavy edge of the music it was trying to appeal to both a prog rock and prog metal audience. Based on my history selling the French prog metal band Manigance (a superb band in the Vanden Plas mold but with French vocals) I felt there was a limited audience. Further JP quoted me a very high price (remember the dollar is weak). I decided to pass.

Forward to yesterday...I was contacted again by JP, apparently motivated by this thread and comments by John Mattern. I outlined my concerns to JP. I agreed to stock the CDs if we could come to a meeting of the minds on price and terms. I told him how much I wanted to pay based on the price I felt comfortable retailing the CDs at. JP wasn't thrilled but he agreed. His firm terms were the CDs had to be prepaid for. I don't prepay. I've been in business for 19 years with terms from bands, labels and distributors all over the world. I offered to pay upon receipt of goods - not uncommon.   JP said this was unacceptable. I wasn't insulted and I don't think he was either - we simply didn't have a meeting of the minds. No bad guys here - the deal just didn't work out for us. I wish JP and Nemo all the best. I'm sure there are many places that the CD can be sourced from - Greg Walker, Kinesis, etc. If JP changes his mind I'll be happy to stock Nemo.

Regards,
Ken Golden
The Laser's Edge
www.lasercd.com
www.lasersedgegroup.com

JP-e-mailed Ken and he replied back with his side of the story and recounted your latest conversation.  I understand you are both trying to make money on your endeavors and it is hard to say who is right and who is wrong-probably neither of you.  He obviously can't carry everything from everybody.  I'll look for your stuff elsewhere.  Good Luck with the new album

Edited by johnobvious - October 02 2006 at 09:14

Thanks!

Actually, the way we recorded the vocals made in sort that his voice sounds like Gabriel. He has a similar tone of voice naturaly so that doesn't help either but there is no intention of being of genesis wannabe band like all those clone around there!!!

The better way to get our album? Musea record is our distribution in France so there should be a couple of retailer with our album but I heard that they kind of sell them ridicously at a high price so you may want to check on Amazon or our website.

Woo hoo! Si Partie I was great- I love it (assaf ). I just hope II will be as good (or better!). 

He should have French album.

Salut Inferno !
(I write in english for everyone to understand)

I said hello from you to Sebastien :)
He  said Hamadryad is a great band, so i'm going to go to your web page and listen to samples ! Thank you for the preorder !

@ Johnobvious : other retailers don't care about the language and sell our cds quite easily, so I guess he'll change his mind one day :)

Ken Golden said to me one day :"I don't know how I can sell your albums in the usa, because of the french singing"
However, if many people ask him Nemo cds, he'll maybe do a try ! ;)
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Interesting.  The guy carries tons of stuff and a lot of it is obscure.  I love his outfit, but this seems a little shortsighted when you consider what a great band this is.  I might just drop him a line.  With the buzz on PA, maybe he will reconsider.

avestin wrote: First Nemo, now Hamadryad... wow this is great. Loved your previous two albums. Any new album in sight, perhaps? Any shows in the US (preferably east coast...)?

We are presently composing the third album (We have 3 or 4 songs that are by now only works in progress and a lot of ideas)

We are also working on a live CD and a live DVD from our performance in France (At Crescendo)


For shows in the US, I recently met the guys from the band Echolyn and we kept contact. If everything works like I'd like to work, we would will probably do a double bill with Echolyn somewhere in the states (Probably something like 3-4 dates) But I can't confirm anything. Both of our bands are working on a new materiel so we'll see if that happens in 2007! (Our album should be out in fall 2007 if everything goes well)


If you want us in the states, ask for us! We would like to play in the states but it's not an easy task for people from Montreal (we don't have the contacts and we don't know where actually people that would love to see us live exactly!)

Create a demand of Hamadryad somewhere in the states and we will know where to go :P

Nemo wrote: johnobvious wrote: Wish the band the best in getting it made and produced, but we here in the states will probably have to wait to buy in dollars from our good old internet shops.  Hope to see the Prelude a la Ruin repressing made available here also. Oh I understa,d that buying cds in europe foryou  is a bit expensive, but of course our retailers in the USA will have Si II and Prelude à la ruine (I guess they already have Prelude now). Greg Walker (Syn-phonic) already ordered Si II, and I think he will get them in january. :)

I bought SI part 1 from Kinesis and was hoping they would get Prelude in also.   Haven't bought from greg walker before.   Is Laser's Edge not interested in carrying Nemo?