Definitive New Age Music site just launched May 1, 2009
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Seriously, this is worth checking out if you love new age, ambient or chillout music. Clifford White has spent months pulling together a website that will serve as a repository for everything related to new age music. How wonderful to finally have everything in one searchable spot! So if you are a fan or an artist, please check it out. http://www.newagemusicnews.com
There is also a related forum so that fans may communicate directly with artists. It’s a social network that will focus on what the listener has to say. Click Here.
There is also a newsletter you can sign up for.
Twitter? April 21, 2009
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Well, after much pushing and prodding we have joined the ranks of Twitter.
http://twitter.com/2002Music
I’m still trying to figure out exactly why? Here’s what Twitter says: “Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
Now frankly, I am usually doing something that most people would consider boring. So, in light of that fact, I am trying to limit my “tweets” to musical activities that transpire – though most of those would also be considered boring by most people, I think. For example, “tuned the harp today” would get pretty old since I’d have to post it pretty much every day. LOL
So, dearest friends, if you have any tweetable suggestions for me, I am all ears – errr beaks I guess???
Another late night… January 30, 2009
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I think we must be crazy. No, I KNOW we are crazy. We tossed around the idea of adding performance clips of our band into an existing video for one of the songs coming out on the new DVD next month. Now, realize that we had already sworn off EVER operating under a deadline again. It’s just too nightmarish. But we mentioned the idea for the video to our label and out of the blue we had 3 days to get the thing completed by the Amazon deadline. EEK!!!! Well if any of you have a little kid at home, you know thet nothing happens uninterrupted unless it goes on LATE at night. So there we were at 11:30 at night, getting dressed up and set up to film. (I tried really hard to not look tired.) We completed the last clip at about 2:30 in the morning. And as any of you with little kids know, there ain’t no sleeping-in late either, so this is the sort of thing that you pay for… well, for at least a couple of days, anyway.
It took the next two days to edit and then came the really boggling maze of converting the video so that it looks good on the web. Well, it’s not perfect. But here it is!
(You can watch it in HD if you go to YouTube.)
Song: “Free to Fly” DVD/CD: “A Word in the Wind” by 2002
A Word in the Wind – first review January 14, 2009
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By Michael Debbage
“Since when do you associate pulsating percussion with distinct synthesizer and electric guitar embellishments with 2002? Think now as this coming February Pamela and Randy Copus will present to the listening public their latest musical endeavor, “A Word In The Wind.” While the sweet ingredients of 2002 have been placed on a low calorie diet it has been beefed up with a progressive edge that we have not yet heard from 2002 until now and the results are mind blower.” More…
Merry Christmas! December 24, 2008
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Hi everyone
Here’s a little song Sarah and Randy recorded today. We wish each of you a healthy, happy holiday and a fabulous new year!
~ 2002
New Album coming February 2009 December 2, 2008
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Hello everyone
We have a date for the new album at last! February 10, 2009. The title is A Word In The Wind and it’s about 50 minutes long. There are 12 songs and videos. The audio is both stereo PCM and DTS 5.1 surround. Here is a blurb from the back cover: “What mysteries and secrets did ancient civilizations hold? Why do their stories haunt us like a distant memory… lost yet so familiar? Captivating music and visuals set a new level for the duo, 2002. Part of the Audio Visual Connect Series™ from Gemini Sun Records, this two disc CD and DVD set includes 5.1 surround sound, powerful rhythms and exciting original videos”.
There is a sneak peek interview at . Mainly Piano.
A Word In The Wind
Album update and other ramblings October 6, 2008
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Hi everyone!
As most of you know, the release date was postponed until February 2009. So we’ll add an extra song or two to make up for it. Plus Randy is working on some 5.1 surround mixes for it.
Here are a couple of interesting flutes that have found their way onto the new album and one that may still.
Interesting Flutes
Flutes
The top flute is a lovely Coyote Oldman flute in A flat. We bought him for the new album, but he is still patiently waiting.
The middle flute is an odd instrument I stumbled across during a trip to New Mexico. (Note the skulls on it). It’s actually an earthy-sounding flute in the key of C which lended a very dusty sound to a southwestern flavored song. The bottom image shows a very sweet ocarina which was brought to me by a friend from China. It added a very haunting sound to a slow piano song. It has an almost human-voice quality.
New album in the works June 30, 2008
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I’m so sorry I’ve been scarce. This always happens during what we call “crunch time” on a new album project. We are less than 4 weeks from our deadline for submitting the master to our label and that basically means that there’s not a lot of sleeping going on around here – about 4 – 6 hours on a good night.
Sometimes I have to stop and think if I ate a meal? Brushed my teeth? Fed the fish? Hmm, can’t remember… Luckily we have good friends who never take it personally when we disappear like this. They are used to it!
I’d like to invite everyone to browse our forum. We’ve had a lot of fun over there. http://www.2002music.com/forum
And I promise to catch up on the blog as well once we finish the new album. Get ready for some surprises!
Instruments – Wind Controller May 16, 2008
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We’ve been asked about the instruments we use in our music. Here is one of the more unusual ones. It’s made by Yamaha. It allows me (a flutist) to “play” instruments from around the world and apply the subtle nuances of a flutist’s embouchure to them.
Grow Old With Dogs May 15, 2008
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A dear friend sent this to me…
It seems so true.
When I am old…
I will wear soft grey sweatshirts,
and a bandanna over my silver hair,
and I will spend my social security cheques on wine and my dogs.
I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair
and listen to my dogs’ breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow…
When people come to call, I will smile
and nod as I show them my dogs,
and talk of them and about them…
…the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today.
I will still work hard cleaning after them,
mopping and feeding them and
whispering their names in a soft loving way.
I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,
like a jewel, and I will be an embarrassment to all,
especially my family…
who have not yet found the peace in being free
to have dogs as your best friends.
These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall,
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,
to greet you as if you are a god,
With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope
that you will always stay.
I’ll hug their big strong necks,
I’ll kiss their dear sweet heads,
and whisper in their very special company.
I look in the mirror…and see I am getting old.
this is the kind of person I am, and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.
Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives,
they love my presence in their lives.
When I am old this will be important to me.
You will understand when you are old….
if you have dogs to love too.
- Anonymous
“It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life, gifts me with a piece of their heart.
If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.”
—Unknown
