Voodoo Shilton has been a favorite of mine at Cat's Art MusikCircus in part because he reveres Django Reinhardt but also because he has huge curiosity about music from all over the world. He doesn't go for a cliche of 'world music' but rather he looks at music of the world to discover what would work best with what he is trying to accomplish. This type of inquisitiveness takes him into a world of his own rather than something someone handed down to him. He's the one who introduced an African udu and that by itself is interesting but his introduction was as part of a jazz set and that's what sets his work apart.
Voodoo is now offering something else that's different and that's recording of his shows. By itself that's not unusual as recording a show isn't that hard but the twist Voodoo has added is you can buy the recording immediately after the show has finished. The way it works is that he uploads the recording right after the show and then sends a link to those who have purchased it so they can download it their own systems.
Many people have previously offered sales for their CDs or for MP3 versions of individual songs but I have not heard of anyone making an offering such as Voodoo is doing and I hope it works well for him. A not so obvious side benefit of this approach is that performers often will do shout-outs to people in the audience so it gives all the more reason to participate in the performance when you can hear your involvement in the recording after the show is over.
Maybe the beauty part is that he only charges about $1000L (i.e. about $5.00 US, €4,00 or £3,25) which I think is quite reasonable given each recording is unique and is provided as soon as it is recorded. It's a novel approach and I hope it works out for him.
This is something I strongly recommend for Michi Renoir who I have often called Maestro Michi as these days he never plays the same set twice because he improvises almost all of them. Many, many times I've thought how cool it would be if there were recordings available.
There's not so much I can do to support the musicians when I can't login to Second Life but positive publicity never hurt anything. According to P.T. Barnum, there's no such thing as bad publicity so long as they spell your name right so perhaps negative publicity has some value as well but I'll leave that to someone else.
Someone said the other day that Second Life is just a cartoon and this view is common in those who haven't experienced it and don't understand it. If you're curious and like to make things, Second Life can be an endless fascination. One thing it's not is a social network as Second Life is an entire world made entirely be the people within it. Second Life is not immune to the drama games that plague Facebook but it is much, much more. Try it sometime and find out for yourself. One thing I can promise you is that you will find a world of music, particularly at Cat's Art MusikCircus, that you never knew existed.
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