BellerBytes 81: December Florida Tour & "View" Remixes Available For Download!

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Got just two quick things to announce this time around:

1. Kira Small/Bryan Beller Now Booking December Florida House Concert Tour
2. Two Remixed/Remastered Tracks From View Now Available At Bandcamp


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1. Kira Small/Bryan Beller Now Booking December Florida House Concert Tour

Does the minivan (current odometer: 203,000) ever stop? We sure hope not, because now that the cross-country October/November Kira Small w/Bryan Beller tour is completely booked (and thanks to everyone who helped make that happen in such a short time), we're looking at December. We've been all over the country this year. There aren't too many places we missed. But one notoriously hard-to-route state stands out...

FLORIDA!

What better month to go there than December, right? We've both got friends in the Sunshine State, and it's been way too long since I've been there with anyone other than Dethklok.

We currently have a house concert booked for Saturday 12/11 in Delray Beach, slightly north of Ft. Lauderdale. If you're in or near Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Tampa/St. Pete, Ft. Myers, maybe even Pensacola, and you're interested in hosting a house concert in the first half of December, just e-mail me back. We've now done over 30 house concerts in 16 states, and I can't tell you how much fun they are for both us and the hosts and their friends. (Well I could, but it would be easier in person, hint hint.)

If you're curious but have no idea what I'm talking about when I say "house concert," or need a refresher, here's some links to our house concert world:

CNN.com article about us & house concerts:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/06/09/house.concerts/index.html
(make sure to watch the video on this page!)

Our YouTube video clips:
http://www.youtube.com/user/KiraSmallMusic

Our page at ConcertsInYourHome.com
http://www.concertsinyourhome.com/artist/kirasmall.html

Kira's pages (we do her original material, though I sneak a BB solo piece in here and there):
http://www.kirasmall.com
http://www.myspace.com/kirasmall 

And stay tuned if you're just interested in attending a Florida house concert - hopefully we'll have details soon on where they're at.


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2. Two Remixed/Remastered Tracks From View Now Available At Bandcamp

For those who've been following me a while and really dig my first album View, this may be of interest.

First albums are funny. They're really fresh because you have no idea what you're doing. Some magic comes out of that. But also, invariably, you make some mistakes along the way, or you wish you could have done something differently. In that vein, I've long wanted to remix and remaster View. I won't bore you with the technical sound-nerdy reasons why - I just always have.

So finally I put my money where my mouth was and took two touchstone tracks from that album - "Seven Percent Grade" and"Get Things Done" - and did it. I got Thanks In Advance engineer Mark Niemiec on the case. And I gotta say, I'm VERY pleased with the results. I think you'll find a clearer delineation of instruments overall, plus much crisper drums, present guitars and keys, and stronger bass. Plus, on "Seven Percent Grade," we used part of an alternate bass track from the original live tracking session.

But how to "release" such an esoteric thing? Enter Bandcamp.com. It's a site where you can download audio at whatever quality you like - from standard mp3 to lossless superWAV, or whatever they call it - and better still, you get to pay what you want, starting from zero. It's all futuristic Web 3.0 and whatnot.

Seriously, I invite you to check these remixes out. They're streaming for free. If you want to download them, just pay what you think is right. If the response is good, I might do some more tracks from this record. So let's see what happens, shall we?

Check out the remix of "Seven Percent Grade" on Bandcamp:
http://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/track/seven-percent-grade-remix-remaster

Check out the remix of "Get Things Done" on Bandcamp:
http://bryanbeller.bandcamp.com/track/get-things-done-remix-remaster


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That's all for now...come on, it's the last week of August! Even I'm trying to keep it light.

Best wishes to all,
Bryan Beller