The Emerald Dawn

The Emerald Dawn, a symphonic progressive rock band based in Cornwall, UK, will be officially releasing their eagerly-awaited debut album, Searching for the Lost Key, on October 8th, 2014



http://theemeralddawn.bandcamp.com/


Edited by Ally Carter - September 24 2014 at 21:49

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Edited by Ally Carter - September 24 2014 at 22:04

Hi Yam Yam, The Myspace samples are old versions. Only 'Shadow in Light', on Soundcloud, is on the album.

October 8th, 2014 is a full moon:

If things follow the normal course of events with artists using the bandcamp platform, we should be able to stream the rest of the album on there when it is officially released on Wednesday.

Thanks Ally! 

RELEASED TODAY

"Searching for the Lost Key" is the debut album from multi-instrumentalist, symphonic progressive rock trio, The Emerald Dawn.

To mark its release, here is a photo of Tree Stewart (keyboards, flute and vocals), with her paintings for the album, holding the finished CD.

"Searching for the Lost Key" is now available here:


http://theemeralddawn.bandcamp.com/

Hi Yam Yam, We're not currently planning on releasing digital downloads. I'm sure that you pay for your music. But for every download purchased, 8 are obtained for free. And those who think that they are being radical by saying that all music should be free don't do anything to provide musicians with free studio time, nor with free food! And it costs a lot of money to make an album. Musicians need to get at least some of that money back. Because some musicians are millionaires doesn't justify consigning other musicians to abject poverty. So we're not enthusiastic about providing low-quality mp3s to the 'Give Me' generation of free riders!

Thanks for clearing that up Ally - It's just that usually with artists who use bandcamp as a distribution platform, the tracks are available to listen to before you buy them (either the digital files or the CD). The samples on myspace are old versions, and only one finished track from 'Searching for the Lost Key' can be heard on soundcloud. I was thinking that the low quality bandcamp streaming samples that are normally made available would have been useful to our evaluation teams, but if you have contacted any them via private message in the meantime and provided them with something they can use then that's great. I will almost certainly be buying this CD too, as I always do with music I really like, but I usually try to listen to a reasonable proportion of an album first if possible before deciding whether or not it's something I want to buy for my collection. 

Obviously this is not studio quality, but it is a live version of one of the tracks on the album.

http://tivestv.co.uk/music/emerald-dawn-buridans-lament/

I understand that the whole album will be played in two slices on Through the Looking Glass. I think all of it has been played on the Eppy Gibbon Podcast show, on Larne's Finest and on The Ancient One (Cuillin FM). In other words, we've been relying on internet and FM radio play for those into prog to hear the album (without lots of free mp3s flying around cyberspace!). Hope this helps. PS I wanted to email a certain person the tracks so that The Emerald Dawn's music could be evaluated, but I got no reply when I requested an email address. Cheers, Ally.