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Paul Terry is an independent artist with multiple solo albums, scores for award-winning films, an independent label, a handful of books he’s authored, and many producing credits. He walks us through the process from cataloguing the first spark of an idea to how he releases an album once it’s all curated.
Paul Terry @PTprojects talks about @Bandcamp and embracing being an #independent #artist. Click To Tweet
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- All of Paul’s projects are joined by one common thread: the enjoyment of telling stories
- Why Paul is inspired by doing a little bit of everything each day: walking away from computer, picks up guitar
- How Paul tricks himself into thinking like his audience in order to improve his product
- Why Paul prefers to work with professional collaborators
- He writes songs solo but then calls on collaborations for structuring the album
- How writing an album is like curating a museum exhibit
- He uses on his smart phone for recording a quick melody or rhythm to document the idea
- Why Paul uses Bandcamp to hold multimedia: digital booklets, music, movies, artwork, other merchandise
- Why the work starts for Paul after the album is mastered – press and beyond
- Paul’s advice on releasing an independent album after it’s recorded
Quotes:
The value of a good idea and how you nurture it... that is the absolute everything. Click To Tweet It's extremely important to open up collaborations and then LISTEN. Click To Tweet If you don't put the most care and marketing into a record, why should anyone else care about… Click To Tweet How you decide to come across to people is empowering. Click To Tweet
Links:
Epinephrine on BandCamp (FREE DOWNLOAD)
Contact:
Paul’s Website | Twitter | Facebook
Projects:
Emily (Movie) by Caroline Harvey
The Furred Man (Movie) by Paul Williams
Care (Movie) by Tristan Aitchison
Sonic Highways on HBO by Dave Grohl
Frequent Collaborators:
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