Nemesea In Store

Alright, the news is a couple of months old, but today I actually saw a Sellaband CD on the shelves of a brick and mortar record store! You can buy a regular edition In Control by Nemesea at Velvet in Delft for a bit less than 10 euro. It must have been pure excitement (or the remainder of that virus) that made me do such a louse photo job. Anyway, now going for that first Second Person CD - one of whose sales I might actually benefit.... (VB)

Sellaband-Amazon deal hits Dutch major newspaper

The Volkskrant, one of the two Dutch major national newspapers, had a short snippet about the Amazon deal this morning. Alright, numbers are always difficult for a journalist (35k instead of 30k, 7 artists having albums out?) and as far as I know the deal was only with Amazon.co.uk and not the .com parent company (not really sure what the organization structure of Amazon is). But small articles like these appearing more regularly are the key to making Sellaband the household name it should be. At least they spelled the name right! (VB)
Edit 6/01/2008: The release date on Amazon of all three CDs (Nemesea, Second Person, Cubworld) in regular and limited editions is set to the 21st of January. You can view the CDs here.

A Song from the Attic (3)

This week another page in the diary got written... with a song! A Christmas song has appeared out of thin air - was it perhaps the ghost of Christmas past that held the pen? In these dark days close to Yule the past, present and future get easily intertwined. Although the signature at the bottom of the page is easily taken for that of a known songstress of our time one can never be sure!
I feel this may be the last entry in this diary in this form. Now that the lyrics are written only music needs to take shape. Perhaps this story will take a different turn, in a different time, in a different form....

“Noël, Noël,
Un seul voeux vers les cieux
Te retrouver, Noël

All the pretty places are calling me
I want more than their faces, want to dive deep
But there are guns in our suitcases
And I don’t know if I will make it through the day
You say that your season is one of joy
So I am counting the days to another Christmas Holiday
For I don’t have the strength to fight no more
And I need you to remind me of just what we’re fighting for
…Where are you Christmas?

Lying, in my bed
Fighting my thoughts, fighting your hymn
La-la-la-la-la-…
You say that your season is one of joy
So I am counting the days to another Christmas Holiday
‘Cause I don’t have the strength to fight no more
And I need you to remind me of just what we’re fighting for
…Where are you Christmas?

If I could, I would sail across the waters, a white flag in my hand
Longing to feel safe again, warm again, in your arms again
‘Cause I don’t have the strength to fight no more
And I need you to remind me of just what we’re fighting for
…Where are you Christmas? …Where are you Christmas?”

© A. Arsenault