Release 1: Technology (Keeping Us Apart)

Release 1: Jan 9, 2012 TECHNOLOGY (KEEPING US APART)        BUY FROM         OR       PAY WHAT YOU WANT AT

 Good morning lovers. There are no cracks in the sky or mountains of water descending upon us as yet. In fact, no signs of any coming world devastation beyond the usual hum of social unrest and environmental degradation that we have all come to expect and which doesn't, in general, inspire us to further question the contents of our burgers or the origins of our shoes. Last night, however, I did see a woman urinate whilst standing-up on the footpath in a crowd watching street theatre. I must admit that I was thoroughly impressed by her casual disregard for the social conventions of 'weeing in private' and 'not splashing the people around you with your wee' or even apparently 'if you do wee in public don't walk off and pretend you haven't just weed in the street and people haven't just watched you wee in the street'.

And so to business. As promised, here is my first song release for 2012 for the FRONZ ARP IS A TINY CROOKED ORCHESTRA project, <> 'Technology (Keeping Us Apart)'. Recorded in it's entirety in my bedroom on my over-stretched computer and minimal recording set-up. Now the avid keeper-upperer of my heres, theres, toings and froings might notice that I have a demo on Soundcloud with the same title as this song, which bears very little resemblance to the track I've just released. This is the original demo.

Technology (keeping us apart) by Fronz Arp

I produced this original version a few months ago and never felt it completely worked even though I really liked the musical idea. When I devised the music for the version I have just released, I found myself singing the lyrics from the original version along with it without thinking about it and decided to adapt them so they fitted with the new music.

I hope you like the song. :)

Now, something which I've also decided to trial, that I'd love your feedback on, is a system whereby I'm selling the song download for pay-what-you-want with a $1 minimum OR I'll email you the song for free if you email the link to the song on Bandcamp to three more people (and add my email info@fronzarp.com to the address bar so that I know you've done it). I'm a believer that there should be an exchange of value when distributing music, but that doesn't necessarily mean dollars and cents value. I think these two options represent a fair trade of value of either currency or 'word-spreading', which is as important to any musician as money in most respects. Anyway, I'd love your opinions on this system!

thanks lovelies xx