Perry The Platypus and I.
I Am The Icarus - Secret Origins EP Available 02/22/2011
The Secret Origins EP will be available 02/22/2011 for $3 USD on http://www.bandcamp.com in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Apple Lossless, FLAC and AAC. When you buy the Secret Origins EP, you’re helping to create and distribute the next I Am The Icarus record: every dollar earned goes toward that end. The first 1000 people to buy Secret Origins will get The Father, The Heretic And The Sonabsolutely FREE.
IATI Mission Statement 2011
For years much like a poor and dusty kid outside a diner in winter, nose pressed against the glass, I’ve viewed the music industry from the outside. Over the past few years I’ve had my foot in the door (and had said door closed on it) of the business of entertainment. I’ve witnessed an industry that is still so painfully out of touch in the age of social media and unabashed in its ignorance.
There are still old-school dinosaurs attempting to apply old world media solutions to a model that’s evolved past it. The next I Am The Icarus release is an experiment (that could fail miserably) in using the Trent Reznor/Kevin Smith model of using a word of mouth/viral campaign to raise awareness and funds, albeit on a much smaller scale.
It’s with this spirit in mind that I’m releasing the Secret Origins EP.
The title appeals to the comic book nerd in me and the fact that I’m indeed selling the past to pay for the future of the band. The four songs on the Secret Origins EP are previously unavailable songs recorded in 2007. The origins of IATI are literally in every nook and cranny of these songs, you can see where it’s going. It’s Punk Rock in its raw, imperfect, purity and written/recorded on the heels of forming IATI.
Every dollar earned goes towards finishing the NEXT IATI record - The Father, The Heretic And The Son - and releasing it to you independently.
True independence is releasing your music on your OWN terms and deciding how it should and WILL be used. It occurred to me that servicing your art to major media companies and NOT the fans makes absolutely ZERO sense to my sensibilities. It’s a calculated risk and I’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. I’ve been inspired by Kevin Smith over the past year to in his words - “Keep your head up and never chase the puck; go where the puck’s gonna be.” – And that’s what I intend on doing.
When you buy the Secret Origins EP, you’re helping to create and distribute the next IATI record: every dollar earned goes toward that end. As an added incentive not only do you get to be a part of the making of the next record but the first 1000 people to buy Secret Origins will get The Father, The Heretic And The Sonabsolutely FREE. Not only free but in ANY format you want, MP3, FLAC, WAV etc.
I need YOUR help. Spread the word on facebook, twitter, tumblr, etc. Blog about it, send texts - Be apart of something exciting and truly progressive.
Let’s show the rest of the world where the industry is heading - Truly independent and willing to take a chance.
I Am The Icarus
Daniel Godfrey
(Source: iamtheicarus.com)
My fear of death and inability to form a cohesive thought.
Life proves to be as unpredictable as always with every passing year, the only constant is its ability to surprise me. I’ve learned that any attempt to struggle against is an exercise in the futile and absurd. It has occurred to me recently that a transformation of the way I view this existence is needed if I’m going to make the most of it. The biggest obstacle I have to overcome is the one truth I’ve never been able to reconcile; one day we are all going to die. Maybe it’s the causal effects of being raised to believe that there was a heaven, only to later have it occur to me that it was specious information at best. My fear of death is made worse by an irrational sense that I will also die young. I have no idea how that stuck in my craw but it did.
As I crest ever closer to my thirties I’m more confident that I know what I want to accomplish and more or less how to accomplish these things. There are a few important facts that I need to register and keep in mind as I continue this ride. Paramount is the fact that I am, and always have been, driven by destinations. While I’m not absolutely convinced that this is a terrible way of life, it’s not without its flaws. The most obvious and immediate danger is that life will pass you by and you would have missed it. Life becomes about a series of major events and you tend to regard the small ones with a sort of indifference. When you start banking on a future that doesn’t exist you run the risk of living your life in a strange non-reality way station of daydreaming.
I spent an inordinate amount of time alone in 2010 and was terrified to learn how easy it was for me to do this. Granted, I was facing health issues which left me in a constant state of malaise, pain and depression, but it’s no excuse to let life pass you by and…wait…
What the fuck was my point? I’m not sure that I had one anymore. I sat down with the intention of blogging again and became lost in my own hazy thoughts. And then a voice could be heard saying, “Welcome back Mr. Godfrey, we missed you. Won’t you stay awhile?”
