{"id":2786,"date":"2021-12-16T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2021-12-16T05:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:53:29","slug":"new-album-moonwish-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"New album “Moonwish” released!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently released my third album,\u00a0Moonwish<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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The album is now available on Bandcamp<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a>!<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

9 tracks about 50 minutes long. The cover features an image of the 2017 solar eclipse, though I tried spicing it up with some color and texture. I think it came out OK, if still a bit amateurish.<\/p>\n

I’m distributing it digitally with DistroKid<\/a>, which charges about $20 a year, but does not charge fees for royalties earned. Still, in the five years I’ve paid them, I’ve only made about $35 in return, so still a net loss (and that’s before taxes). But that’s with only two albums (A Dream Half Lost<\/em> and\u00a0Storybook Overture<\/em>). As DistroKid does not charge more for each new release, I really need to release more stuff so that it will at least pay for itself.<\/p>\n

I still hope to produce some music animation videos for YouTube for some of the album’s tracks, particularly\u00a0Second Star to the Right<\/em>,\u00a0Somewhere Far Away<\/em>, and\u00a0Star of Wonder<\/em>. I’d also like to create a video that features the entire album.<\/p>\n

Patreon<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a side note, I also haven’t updated my stagnant Patreon<\/a> for a long while. All of my patrons dumped me for not delivering, save one single patron who must be a saint. But I was composing about two new tracks a month, so now I owe around 80-something tracks for all the months I collected tips and did not deliver anything. So I still plan to deliver all those tracks! But it will likely take a while. Other than delivering those tracks, I doubt I’ll keep using Patreon; I just don’t seem to be able to stick to a monthly schedule. (Actually, I think there’s a newer option now where you can just deliver stuff when you can, which I guess I could try, but it’s probably still not really worth the effort for my niche audience. Better to focus on TuneSage.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently released my third album,\u00a0Moonwish! The album is now available on Bandcamp, Amazon,\u00a0Spotify, and YouTube! 9 tracks about 50 minutes long. The cover features an image of the 2017 solar eclipse, though I tried spicing it up with some color and texture. I think it came out OK, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New album \"Moonwish\" released!","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[203,23],"tags":[744,848,736],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-IW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}