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    Posted: January 07 2011 at 07:54
Hi!

Considering the wealth of knowledge of you guys on here we thought it would be a good idea to get your thoughts and feelings on the first section of our new (planned) concept album.

A little about us. We are an unsigned and unmanaged 4 piece from London and have been together for a couple of years. This project is fully self funded and is meant to be 3 pieces of music that will form the full album. At the moment we have run out of money to continue the piece so are looking to gain enough interest from people signing up via our website to then be able to approach labels and management to help us complete the project.

We would consider this a piece of progressive rock but then you guys are more experienced to decide if it actually does fit that label.

You can hear the first section here www.theinstituteofmodernlove.com and you can also register you interest if you like it.

It would be fantastic to hear your thoughts on the music.

Thanks

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 09:53
Welcome aboard, Kris.
We're very happy to meet you and your stuffs.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 09:59
Hey Damo!

Thanks for the welcome. I've just been reading though some of the forum posts on here. You guys certainly know your stuff!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 13:30
I absolutely love this. I registered for your mailing list and I look forward to hearing more from you guys in the future!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 13:56
Hey VanVanVan

Thanks so much for the comment and for the interest registered. Glad to know someone likes it!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 17:34
Now checking your suite in your website ... fascinating one!
A long suite seasoned with thrilling & dramatic voices and symphonic sounds ...

If you can contract some labels, please let us know.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 17:52
oh Shocked ... never noticed such an institute before - don't intend to be alone again ... will check this asap Smile



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 18:30
this is prolific for sure - a cornucopia of psychedelic and symphonic flavour ... please carry on Clap




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 19:43
Interesting band name LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 20:08
Thanks Damo, its so difficult to get any interest in a prog rock band concept album from labels in the UK!!! I think we've got a hard battle ahead of us. Rivertree thanks for your very kind words. Harmonium our name seems to divide opinion but we feel it kind of sums up the 'feel' of the project and our sound. Hope you like Project Aphrodite

Thanks all!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2011 at 23:08
You could always sell your music digitally on bandcamp.com (I'm not affiliated with that website BTW) without paying anything, as long as you guys fund the recording sessions.


I'll give your stuff a listen now.


Edit: Hey, sounds like the non-metal sections of Pain of Salvation mixed with Pink Floyd.

I like it.   Approve


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2011 at 06:21
Hey Starhammer

Thanks for the great comments. The Pink Floyd and Pain of Salvation comparisons are great! Thanks!! As for putting this out the plan is that we need to get enough interest to approach management and labels to help us fund the next 2 sections (ideally 3 more sections) as we want to release the project as a whole. It feels wrong to release only the first part of a concept album.

We'll keep on trying!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2011 at 11:21
Hi everyone, Tom from the band here, just to let you know that we followed your advice and the first EP in our insane trilogy is now available on Bandcamp. We re-recorded a lot of it and mixed it again, we progged it up by about 40%! To say thanks for the kind comments you can use the 40% discount code 'progarchives' , and here is the link to hear the whole EP free and download if you do so wish. http://theinstituteofmodernlove.bandcamp.com/

Right, I'm off to have some conversations about prog on here!
Tom
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 17 2011 at 18:27
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2011 at 10:23
Got the EP a day or two ago and I have to admit I'm a little bit obsessed with it. Easily one of the better modern progressive epics I've heard lately. Stunning stuff.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2011 at 13:48
Great Handshake
should be immediately forwarded to a team for evaluation purposes ...

... something for the neo boys??? Whaddaya say, Keishiro???

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2011 at 19:52
Thanks very much Damo, Van and Rivertree, the good feedback makes the (many!) hours of work worthwhile. It's a great novelty to think that there are people out there in the world listening to us! Evaluation purposes River? What do i need to do?
 
Cheers,
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 26 2011 at 04:55
Splendid work indeed! Cool
Originally posted by Rivertree Rivertree wrote:

Great Handshake
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... something for the neo boys??? Whaddaya say, Keishiro???
Of course, my thumbs-up. Thumbs Up

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2011 at 15:25
...and added to the database
Websites I work with:

http://www.progressor.net
http://www.houseofprog.com

My profile on Mixcloud:
https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/
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Thanks very much Windhawk, we've arrived!
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