Music for Vipassana Meditation available

To open everyone a simple and doable entry into silent meditation  
with an enjoyable addition of music,
I created `Music for Vipassana Meditation`
including a complemental manual in html format,
with all details needed to start and give it a go right from the scratch.

The manual also suggests variations of sitting
and dealing with the meditation
and suggests to give it a try for at least 21 days.

To keep the costs at a reasonable price,
the `Music for Vipassana Meditation` can be downloaded exclusively
at the new paypal shop corner of omkarmusic.com
with the intention to save shipping costs and intermediary trade.

The complete article can be found here. 

New FAQ section to be found here. 

RIAA continues to kill off the old world music industry.

Most people decry the farce that is the RIAA and their pursuit of personal attacks against the consumer.
Rather than adapting to the viral capabilities the internet provides to independent musicians,
the RIAA continues to alienate consumers and kill off loyalty remaining for the labels and artists they represent.
As a result, the RIAA has completely and utterly failed to turn-around the downward spiral
of album sales and the rise of digital music sharing.

Article and copyright: InternetDJ.com 

Goodbye SNOCAP, Hello Shop Tab

It was a short run with SNOCAP,
the selling engine you see on myspace artists sites.

If someone is interested in the background of the story,
I suggest to visit CDBaby`s news site ... www.cdbaby.org

Very interesting informations from the staff and involved artists.
Gives also non artists a picture of how hard it is
to find reliable selling partners and conditions
when you are an independent artist.

Due to the fact shops and stores for independent artists
come and go
and the common question via mail where to buy my music,
I decided to provide visitors 
an overview of current shops per release, or release dependent.

So on a tabbed list you will find the release
and associated major shops and stores.

If something noteworthy is happening like on this story,
the shop overview will be updated accordingly.

The updated FAQ relates a tiny bit to this subjekt as well.

On the navigation of www.omkarmusic.com
you will now find added tab `Shop`.
The updated FAQ is published on the start page as well.

This is really an issue for independent releases
and I like to explicate few things.

First to understand is

there is no label, no promotion agency, no MTV ...

That basically means there are no fixed marketing levels.
Shops and stores dealing with independent artists
come and go like the sun and moon on a daily basis.

When I send a release to some of my major distributors
like cdbaby in usa,
it is not assured on how many shops and stores they can send it.
Some shops are closing, others are opening.

As a rule of thumb you can visit shops like Apple iTunes and Napster
for digital downloads
and CDbaby or Amazon for retail CDs.

At the Internet Shop site of omkarmusic.com

I currently try to give an overview of topic major distributors
due to the associated releases
and to keep visitors updated of fundamental changes.


Another point to understand is,
each and every step of production is funded by myself.

So I have to decide in what way it makes sense to deliver releases.

Some are good to go with physical units (CDs) and digtal release,
others are good to go for downloads only.

Thats also a reason for not having a fixed market place handy.

Update:

There is now a direct shop corner of omkarmusic.com available
and to be found here .

This have been asked on numerous mails.

To finally drop a note on this:

No ... no artist photo ...
I have a problem with photos since my childhood.

Whenever a shot was made I ripped it into pieces,
because I always had the feeling this is not me.
And it is an impression and personal quirk till today.

To have to have a photo for the driver license
was such a painful experience and I`m done with photos.

To support your imagination as a cure,
just imagine me to look like an ugly frog
where even a kiss wouldn`t help.
Would you ask for a photo ?

I understand for some marketing reasons this is a bad initial point,
but I invite you to be focused on the music and to forget the person.

Yes, it costs visitors just a click

on those advertisement fields
and they are embedded in the sense of supporting
the sites omkarmusik.info and omkarmusic.com

I call them sponsors

helping me covering the internet costs over the year,
just becuase visitors are clicking on the advertisements.

There is no way to get rich with it,
but there is a way to decrease the monthly costs
for webhosting, traffic, domain etc.

I have no influence due to content
or the way it appears on the site.

So sometimes it is shown in a calm text format,
sometimes it is moving, blinking and what not.

It may sometimes appear a bit irritating
to see something like an illuminated advertising
besides a quite and calm intended artist site,
but please accept it the way it is.

My thanks goes to partners like Google, Oxado
and individual partners accepting my site for sponsoring
like AOL and Netraver.