The music goes on…
Great projects like Jamendo are going to revalidate the role of artists and users that are growing in a cultural event of great importance in our lives: the music.
The development of countless musical projects depend on efforts like the ones on Jamendo and other budding Internet music platforms. Something as simple as the old concept of: “straight from producers to consumers” has its new version: “straight from artists to listeners”. This new "business model" brings important benefits for everyone, artists and listeners alike. This is a real music celebration, feeling like being at a “live concert”.
Artists would emancipate from onerous intermediaries, real associations of attorneys, advertisers and marketing experts, specialists in lawsuits and claims of copyrights of musical pieces they did not create; emancipate from the same ones that are depriving the artists from the ownership of their creation and their work. And the listeners have to pay fortunes, thus, inducing us to search for “music pirates", prosecuted like real criminals and scumbags. We pay a lot of money for music tracks and musicians only get the crumbs of this business, moreover, losing ownership of their work.
We remember the epic battles fought by Napster, judged by a justice, hardly believed to be uncorrupted with so many millions at stake. Today, the persecution of users continues with threats of incarceration, a dangerous attempt
to make millions of teenagers, eager to live their music, look like criminals.
Fortunately, new technologies allow artists to record their tracks right in their own garages, without having to give up a professional quality sound. This allows providers like Jamendo to distribute good quality music pieces. The musicians now can create their music freely and promote it in concerts, and this is a very interesting point. Some time ago, Alicia Keys said: “I am an artist, songwriter, singer, musician and not a business strategist.” That says it all.
Maybe we should create a musical community, made up of artists and listeners, as they are the main actors and protagonists of this business, without the need for intermediaries who add nothing to the artistic process. It could be a give and take cycle where listeners could make donations to the artists in exchange for their musical work, which makes our every day a happier one.
Perhaps Jamendo and other forms of Internet radio will mark the beginning of this new medium, that will help thousands of musicians and composers spread their artistic talent out to millions of people.
Bravo for JAMENDO
See you soon
Musicalwave :)
