Artist News
Well, quite a nice thing to have a new album out. Availible for streaming. To be fair, it’s all stuff that was previously on bandcamp, but hey distrokid makes things fancy so why not:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fMiKGWxI1TPB1OAuOTjdx
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/deeplaugh/1709905737
Youtube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ntY_bKBFQ7iVldAtzKJ6Nh_yNPwp9KVsg
Artist News
Fox Mandala Music is now working with electronic musician Deeplaugh.
With a career spanning more than two decades, you’d think that more folks would have heard of this artist, but given that he never releases much of his work and has released work unde serveral names (including The KrellMachine among others) it’s not so surprising.
He’s been producing a whole set of electronic music, and is currently in the process of dripping out the last couple of productions
Artist News
Fox Mandala is proud to be handling the production and promotion for West Texas John.
A musician with a wide-range of skills and interests, he’s been producing recordings and performing with bands for more than two decades now. As a multi-instrumentalist, he’s performed on everything from upright bass to pedal steel guitar.
In 2021, WTJ started to focus closer on his piano performances, and as such has been developing music in that direction.
General News
I (and to be clear, I -am- an “I”) have been working with musicians for a long time.
No need to use the royal “we” here: at the time of this writing it’s just me, by my lonesome: John Reeve.
The TLDR: this is my attempt to figure out how to get some attention for some of the musicians I have worked with.
Fox Mandala is not a “Record Label” per se. It’s not a “Marketing and Promotions Business”. It certainly is not a “Recording Studio”. Right now, it’s mostly an idea that I am trying to bring into form.
I’ve been playing music my entire life. I’ve been recording stuff for other people since the late 1990s. Making records has always been a thing I have loved. Doesn’t matter if it’s just me in my headphones trying to learn how to layer background vocals. Doesn’t matter if it’s me in a concert hall trying to engineer someones Juliard audition tape. Doesn’t matter if I’m just dropping some double bass bhind my buddy’s tracks:
I love playing music, and I really love making it.
A thing I have never been good at has been the “business” of making music. I am bad at promotion. I don’t like selling stuff. I am bad at not just tossing stuff out into the world before it’s been highly polished. I am bad at media strategy: I don’t care if I relases something every week or follow things up with related media. I am bad at finding “actionable metrics”… I just haven’t ever cared about measuring my “reach” or “engagement”.
I don’t feel bad about being bad at those things.
At the same time, I don’t feel like it’s impossible to get better at them. Or, at least I think it’s possible to get “good enough” at these things to be useful for my own purposes and to help some folks around me.
So that’s what this site is… a surface upon which I am going to start building those kinds of skills.
Have a good year!