++++ Breakdown Newsletter 6.0
+++  9 February 1999
++   Breakdown: http://fringedigital.com/brook/
+    Discussion: http://www.egroups.com/list/breakdown/


++++ In this issue:
+++  Breaking News
++   What's New on Breakdown
+    Current List Membership


+++  Breaking News

Djivan Gasparyan and Michael Brook: I just found out that the pair
performed on the KCRW radio program "Morning Becomes Eclectic" in Los
Angeles on 7 October 1998. Real World Notes #7 (December 1998) reports
that after the show, a film director called the radio station asking
permission to use the music in a film next year. Inexplicably, this
performance is practically the only recent program KCRW has *not* made
available in RealAudio.

        Morning Becomes Eclectic:
        http://www.kcrw.org/

Affliction: the film, featuring an understated score by Michael Brook,
is currently in release in the US, so if you want a chance to see it in
high fidelity, now's your chance. I ordered the soundtrack from CDnow
some weeks ago, and am still waiting. Details as soon as I get it.

Real World Records is now distributed in the US on Narada Pro-ductions /
Virgin Records.

To confuse things, Real World has also struck up some kind of
relationship with Astralwerks. One release in particular that is to be
reissued on Astralwerks is Star Rise. It appears Caroline Records is now
totally out of the loop. As a result, the "Real World US" site has moved
from Caroline.com to:

        http://realworld.astralwerks.com/
        http://www.astralwerks.com/starrise/


++   What's New on Breakdown

Let's start right out with the big news: you may have noticed the new
URL at the top of this newsletter. I decided it was about time I moved
my personal web projects onto a more respectable server, and perhaps to
try and drum up some freelance design work.

        http://fringedigital.com/

Breakdown correspondent extraordinairre Steven Davey has promised
pictures of the recent Neil Finn concert in Toronto, featuring Michael
Brook on guitar. When received and scanned, they will appear in the
"Live" section:

        http://fringedigital.com/brook/live/

I am beginning to prepare a multimedia section of the site to be called
Slipstream. It would feature streaming audio and video of out-of-print
and possibly even bootlegged material. Candidates include: the Road to
Graceland video, Shona, "Err", "Diffusing", etc. Feedback, please. (if
you're thinking I'm trying to assuage the taping debate that's been
going on in the list ... you're right!)

I'm also working on an entirely new design for the site - more
understated, more consistent. It'll appear fairly soon.


+    Current List Membership

The Breakdown discussion list currently has 81 subscribed participants,
up from 55 as of the last Newsletter.


Regards, Chad
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Chad Ossman
home: clo@fringedigital.com
work: chad@weblab.org
web: http://fringedigital.com