June 12, 2008
Welcome, new visitor! My name is Ari, the man behind Aries9. Here I share my thoughts on music and life, so you can get to know me and my music. Thanks for visiting!This is the ideal that I strive to with my songwriting/composition:
Something for everyone.
Now, that doesn’t mean that I’m trying to write [...]
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June 12, 2008
If you haven’t checked out amiestreet.com, you should.
It has a great system for distributing and selling music.
The basic deal is that all music, when they are first added, are free.
And as people download them, the price goes up — to the max of whopping 98 cents per song.
Mine was recently added, so it’s still free. [...]
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June 10, 2008
It’s funny how you don’t understand what you have in your hands.
When I put together my music, I knew that there was a theme to it. I hesitate to call it a “story” but I am seeing a few roles and a sense of progression — something happens to them over the course of [...]
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June 4, 2008
I recently launched a new blog site. It’s called OurBestVersion.com.
It’s sort of an experiment. You know that I like writing about life — many of my posts about rich lessons that my life has offered me. I’m a musician, but my blogs aren’t always about music.
Well, that side of me is going [...]
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May 9, 2008
I don’t plan to do this with every song, but with Aries9, I’m making it a general policy to avoid titling a song based on a line in the song’s chorus.
Why?
Because that’s too easy.
I have this habit of noticing and questioning these assumptions. I’d say 99% of all songwriters just whip a song title [...]
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May 8, 2008
Last week one night, I sat down to work on my upcoming album. I was going to do some writing, so I picked up my guitar — but it wasn’t happening there. So I turned my attention to the lyrics to one of my unfinished songs. I had bits and pieces but [...]
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April 30, 2008
Just a heads up — the first of the monthly free CD drawing will be on May 1st.
If you’re interested in winning a free CD (autographed if you’d like) of Aries9’s first album, sign up to our newsletter mailing list, right here on Aries9.com.
If you don’t win this month, you’re automatically [...]
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April 24, 2008
Lyrical Excerpt:
Perfect blue
That’s my color
Perfect peace
That’s my policy
Don’t disturb my noisy slumber
I want more
I have more
Give me more
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The lyrics to this song is rather crude and primal. There’s really nothing profound, mysterious or mature about them. They don’t rhyme, either.
But for this song, I really feel that this is OK. Its brute [...]
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April 18, 2008
I’ve been going through some old CDs, and I’ve gotten rid of quite a few. But I came across one album that surprised me.
It’s The Alarm’s Eye of the Hurricane.
The Alarm, for those of you not old enough, was a British band from 80’s that were colleagues of early U2.
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April 9, 2008
Empire is definitely the ugliest song in this collection. Hence its inclusion.
You see, it’s a very important song to me, precisely because it’s ugly. And it has stayed with me for a long time, under various names. I eventually settled on Empire, because to me it sounds like the voice inside the head [...]
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