Hello Monkeys!
It has been quiet around Unfinished Monkey Records for a while as artistic director Christoffel Hendrickx aka dustrickx went on a three year retreat into yoga ashrams in New Zealand and Australia.From all this time for meditation and rejuvenation came the idea for another Unfinished Monkeys compilation!
We are now collecting tracks for UMR005 SADHANA - the journey OM, which will collect tracks inspired by some sort of yogic vision. Don't think this means you have to be in a lotus pose or doing stretches, music as such is a yogic practice. Yoga is the science of the soul, the idea of union with 'the bigger picture', the essence of all spirituality and esoteric science.
We wish you the best of luck and feel free to contact us for more info or to collaborate with one of our resident artists on your track! All the practicalities on track submission are below.
Monkey shouts and yogic peace!
Unfinished Monkey Records
UMR 005 - track submission information-> Make sure your track is somehow related to or inspired by the following topics:
meditation, yoga, India, Kirtan, Mantra, Sanskrit, the soul, the spirit, relaxation, the body as a vessel of energy, singing/music as a healing practice, tantra, vedanta, samkhya, upanishads, sutras, vedas, buddhism, hinduism, religion vs spirituality, selfless service, sainthood, pilgrimage, temple, shrine, deities,asana, breathing, bandha, purification,yama and niyama, ....
and is high quality electronic, electro-accoustic or instrumental production. Any genre can do but crossover and threshold material gets our preference, think dubstyled electronix with classical vocals or jazzy instrumentals with electroid beats and so on.
-> Make sure your track is no shorter than 30secs. and no longer than 10min.
-> Send your pre-mastered (don't finalize your mastering, leave some headroom for the final finish for the compilation) track as a downloadable .wav file to unfinished.monkey.records@gmail.com before 31/08/2016
-> send a short bio and full track title and info to the same address.
-> keep your track exclusive, make sure it is not downloadable on soundcloud or similar platforms.
-> check your e-mail for our reply after +/- two weeks. If your track gets selected we will further inquire for needed info and send you details on the copyright and publication contract.
ALL FINANCIAL GAIN OF THE RELEASES GOES BACK TO THE ARTISTS ONCE PRODUCTION COSTS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
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