There was a time not long ago when anyone who
created music and wanted to get that music out had to pitch their
art to some talent scout, who then turned the artist over to a
marketing team. Before you knew it, you had a haircut and new clothes
while your sound was adjusted and modified and your words were
tamed and edited.
(For an interesting
documentation of this concept, watch The Brady Bunch, episode
#96, Season 4, where Greg gets “discovered,” renamed
Johnny Bravo, and his art is muddled and processed by engineers
and marketers, who promise him the moon if he will just go along
with their evil scheme. Greg, in all his Brady Integrity, abandons
the deal and goes home.)
Comatose Llama Records was founded
on the concept of letting the artists do what they want while
allowing “the
market” to adjust to them. We aren’t surveying the
listeners and focus-grouping the audience. Like it or don’t.
Buy it or don’t. We can’t make you, and we won’t
adjust it so you will. We aren’t interested in catering to
the market’s tastes. The market is fickle and what they like
today they will hate tomorrow. We please ourselves. Greg Brady
would’ve dug this, Daddy-o.
Our
first signed artist is the "house band" of the multimedia syndicate Radio
Free Babylon.
They already have 4 or 5 CDs in the works and are hoping to fulfill
some promised gigs when that music is eventually released. They
play sporadically, for practice, at a couple of Open Mic venues
in Florida.
At present, we are not seeking
talent. We have enough groups and individuals that we’re interested in and want to help. But
if one of our representatives should come across your group by
accident some night at a seedy club or Open Mic Night, we might
just approach you about working with us. We might not.