Tuesday, January 18, 2011

New Reggae Song "Bullet Proof" has been released!

Once again the new song was actually released days ago, to be more precisely, it was 2 days ago. Because some stuff has gotten out of control here, such delays are unfortunately unavoidable. And once again, I note that my loyal "followers or friends" on Twitter and Facebook already knew about the release from the moment when it was first released. So if you are registered with one of the two networks and would like to be informed promptly, you should not miss to follow me or to add me to your friendlist.
Despite the lack of main part of the promotion, the song got a quite astonishing number of listens and downloads. It looks as if this is the most successful reggae song I've ever published. I'm really curious how the statistics develop from now on.
Stylistically, the song is located in the Reggae field, it is a steppers riddim with a good portion of Dub. It was really about time for the release of a new Reggaesong, because if you look at my list of publications, you will notice that the last Reggaerelease of mine, "Going Bonkers", was already at least half a year ago. Because of this, it is obvious why my reggae-oriented fans were getting a little restless and impatient;)
The new year is really going on fiercely creative. Almost 2/3 of January, is over and I already released three songs. If this continues, it will be a very fruitful year. But I always had a good feeling for 2011 after 2010 was a really bad year. Well, let's hope the best.
And here he is, the first reggae song, after half a year, "Bullet Proof". IMPORTANT NOTE: SOMEHOW THE COMPRESSION OF THE SONG AT SOUNDCLOUD HAS COMPLETELY GONE WRONG THIS TIME AND THE SOUND WAS HEAVILY DAMAGED. IF YOU LIKE THE SONG, PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SONG FROM THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS NEWSENTRY. THIS IS A MUCH BETTER QUALITY!

and again the immortal Links at Archive.org:
Bulletproof - LISTEN
Bulletproof - DOWNLOAD

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The seventh Chapter of the "Alion Meditations" series has been released!

Actually this song has been released four days ago and my followers on Twitter and friends on Facebook know about it since then, unless the message drowned in the endless digital buzz. The reason why the visitors of alionsonny.com/alionsonny.de get the news that late is the following: Some other things got into my way and I didn't find the time to update this site and additionally I wanted to test how the downloads and streams of the song go, if I use promotion via social networks only.
But now for the new song: After about four moth since the last chapter of the "Alion Meditations" series was released, it was about time to release a new chapter. It was especially about time, because many of the folks who enjoyed the previous chapters were strongly demanding a new chapter. Because of that I halted all other projects and ideas. AND HOW GLAD I AM ABOUT THIS NOW! Somehow I had exactly the right ideas, mood and inspiration for it at the day I created "Meditation Seven". The whole song was created in about 6 hours and it took additional 2 hours to get the mix cleaned up and to remove some oddities. And it was woth the work, because the first feedback I got for the song was all positive and encouraging, sometimes even euphoric. I am also more than satified and happy with the result and the work at the song gave me quite a lot of inspiration for future works. Here it is, "Meditation Seven":

and as allways the indestructable links at Archive.org:
Meditation Seven - LISTEN
Meditation Seven - DOWNLOAD

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

First song in 2011, "Fireworks" has been released!

Yepp, it's done: The first song in 2011 is out. And it really rocks the planet! I am currently developing a new style of alionsonny music. I call it Digipunk because it is meant to be punkrock in a digital style. Ok, it still sounds a lot like Synthpop, but I am still learning to do it right. The next part is perhaps a little more punky. This means that it will most probably sounds a bit more "dirty". Let's see ...
Incidentally, it was quite a fiasco to upload the song on my current main platform for music uploads, SoundCloud. Dozens of times I've tried it and got a nice error message that the upload failed and I should make sure that this is really an audio file. At first I thought that something had gone wrong with the encoding of the MP3. But that would be quite funny if all the other music sites accept the file without a problem. I then uploaded the wav file .. with the same error message as a result. So I mailed the support and got the info that the problem could be the title, because recently some IDIOTS uploaded music that was not theirs. Therefore, the filter would reject a lot of uploads recently. In the next mail I was told that the word "Fireworks" was actually in the filter list. I was asked to rename the song. So I've renamed the MP3 file in freworks.mp3, and entered "Freworks" as the songtitle and voila: It worked! Then I just renamed the title to "Fireworks" and everything was fine.
So let's face it: What is this shit? Why must any stupid idiot upload commercial shit on platforms such as SoundCloud, which are designed for musicians to upload their music? Are there not enough One-Click-Hosters for such crap?
Ok, but now everything is all good and the song is, as always, available for free download and listening:
Fireworks by alionsonny
and here the indestructible links at Archive.org, where you get the song, if I need to delete it one day because of my limited space at Soundcloud:

Fireworks LISTEN
Fireworks DOWNLOAD