iamrupert

Well I have to say I am ultra impressed. I originally wrote my article on self-publishing on the 20th September - the day I uploaded my tracks to Recordunion.com.

About 2 weeks ago my material appeared on AmazonMP3.com. About a week later iTunes and today Nokia has joined the fold by ingesting (that's the technical term) my tracks into the Nokia Music Store and making it available for both purchase and through the excellent Comes With Music Service. The proof...

 Here's the album I uploaded...

And the single...

I'm waiting to see how long it takes for reports on my success to come through (i.e. number of downloads) but I won't be giving up my day job just yet.

Well I suppose that over the last few months there have been times that I have felt emptier than I would hope. I mean, I do have EVERYTHING in my life and I am complete, but still there was something.

I've always been really keen on music and I get any music I want through the fantastic Nokia Comes With Music service so it wasn't a lack of access to music that I was missing. And then it dawned on me. I was missing playing it myself and going through the process of writing and recording.

The first step to my recovery is to place my music on this site for "the world" to hear. It reminds me of what I have been capable of in the past and will drive me to make beter music. 

I'll be tweeting and blogging about this and photography from now on and getting the mix back into my life that I have been missing.

So in reference to the title of this post;

...Play on.