October 2019 Update

What do you do when it feels like your health and your technology have conspired against your art?
For us at Gravity Tree this has been the question in mind for the better part of this year and some of the year previous.
The proverbial light seems to be appearing at the end of the tunnel, and if one believed in a jinx one might not ever communicate to interested parties about new music being pulled from dead computers and out into a safer place where imagination and determination can finish the work.

Forward progress is being made in the music, between the drive pulls and restores and all the data tasks, so perhaps at a snail's pace. Or is it a tortoise? Slow and steady, which sounds more positive and so much more encouraging.

Therefore the music, unlike a certain Pro Tools HD computer, is not dead. But there is more work than just writing out the notes and bars, and another update will hopefully indicate goals are being achieved, and a release date for new music can be set. Until then...thanks for checking in, and as always, for listening.

Amazon Music Unlimited

First, we are finally back, composing (and blogging) after a lengthy hiatus. We will be updating all our sites in the coming weeks (which all look like they were last coded in the '90's) and will be sending out emails to those on our list to better detail our status, as well as maintaining a more current blog here. Meanwhile...

Our albums Ultimate Backward and Life or Dessert? as well as our single release Building, are now available on Amazon's streaming service, Amazon Music Unlimited.

New music is also underway and a timetable will be forthcoming.
Thank you for continuing to listen!

Threes Too (Remastered)

A newly remastered version of the instrumental Threes Too is now available at CDBaby and ReverbNation.

The song was originally the final track on the album Life or Dessert?. The CD has gone out-of-print, and while downloads are always available, the general sound of the instrumental piece - while the best that could be done at the time - wasn't all that it could have been.

The remastered version takes a solid step forward toward improving the overall sound and balance of the track. You can hear it in the player on this page, and download it from our ReverbNation page. 


If you prefer a FLAC file, head over to our CD Baby page. 
 


More Gravity Tree music is on the way...

The 12 minute White Elephant in the Studio

I knew we were in trouble when we were making a list of the songs in development and I bring up the longest piece we were (supposed to be) working on, and my guitarist's response was "oh I forgot about that one".

At that point, I got the feeling that the Gravity Tree '3rd album project' (for lack of a decent name) was starting to resemble Brian Wilson's "Smile", which as I recall, took him some 30-odd years to complete. The path to completing the album started to resemble a gauntlet. So I thought "perhaps I should quit".

Just one problem: I am not a quitter. So I ask myself (or was that David Byrne), "self, how did I get here?"...and I'll skip all of the pondering that followed...

I still believe this music has some merit and I need to get it out. I think "need" is the correct term here. So although our schedules are pretty much jam-packed with other gigs and projects and solo albums and commercial soundtrack music and all manner of life events, I'm trying to see this thing to its end, and then decide what needs to happen. Once music is completed and released, it becomes something else. It is no longer the "project".

That 12 minute piece may not be making it onto this release. Said guitarist has since stated he thinks it is further away than that to an ending. But we have a couple of finished things, a lot of almost-finished pieces, and some hardly started work that might go faster at this point.

We're not a government, so I guess I should call this the State-of-the-Project or something. We're moving past the 12-minute White Elephant in the Studio. We've acknowledged the time spent on it might not have been practical, and time will tell if and when it is released if any of the investment pays dividends or not, creatively speaking. But there are other (perhaps better) pieces that we think you might enjoy. And we're all over that.

I will reserve release dates for another blog. For now, I reiterate that new music is coming. If you need an indicator (and who would blame you), when it begins to appear, this page will change. Haters, get ready to hate. You are nothing compared to a musical elephant.

The End of the Beginning

The last day of the first month of a new year finds Linc and myself trying to work on some of his (solo) project, and a couple of the next Gravity Tree pieces.

It was decided that an update here was needed as we have not communicated since the holidays were in full-swing. We are still here. New music is in development.

And there will be a more informative announcement in the next few weeks.

Until then, some of our noise is streaming (for free) on our Power of Prog page...

Gravity Tree on Slacker

Those who use Slacker for their web music and streaming needs can find us here:

http://www.slacker.com/#artist/400431


You can find our album ULTIMATE BACKWARD

and our earlier album LIFE OR DESSERT?...

...More news soon.

Free fan-only CWTD Halloween Download

Here we are in late October, already!

Some of you have noticed Gravity Tree on the various social networks as we promote our seasonally appropriate song, Conversing with the Dead (aka CWTD). We didn't write it that way; it just seems to fall into the Halloween camp.

The new material is still being hatched as it were. Meanwhile, we thought we'd share CWTD with our friends and fans who might not have grabbed it here or have yet to own the album on which it originally appeared, ULTIMATE BACKWARD.

So if you're already on our email list (or sign up quick!), you'll be able to get a free download of CWTD. Just head over to our page at ReverbNation to download Conversing with the Dead or use this link:

http://bit.ly/1rAUSga

It's a small way of doing something for Halloween for our friends and fans to say "thanks".

(Full disclaimer: The download is the original version of CWTD. If you want the 2011 remastered hi-resolution version, it's on BandCamp for just a buck; we couldn't work out the freebie there and can't post the hi-rez stuff with ReverbNation yet.)

This freebie is only offered through Halloween (October 31st) at which time it turns into a pumpkin?...so don't delay.

To recap:

Conversing with the Dead. FREE MP3. Now through Friday midnight PDT.

The End of Life or Dessert?

If you've followed our Tweets, you know that our album Life or Dessert? is out-of-print. It is now at a point where new copies are scarce.

So it seemed worthwhile to rundown where CDs are still available just in case anyone put off picking it up until the very last minute...
As of the date of this blog:

CDBaby: 2 copies in stock

Amazon: 1 copy in stock

(The Amazon page says "more on the way" but we're not sure where they could be getting these; the usual distributor has only 1 copy in their warehouse.)

HBDirect states they have "low stock", which we believe to mean they have 1 copy

...and that's it. Every other store we know of says "unavailable" or "out-of-stock". After a lengthy search, we sent off the last couple of new copies we were able to find anywhere to CDBaby a few weeks ago.

Of course you can always download Life or Dessert? from a dozen or so sites. All legitimate download and steaming sites we know of are listed on our Links page.

One other thing to be said here about downloads is that we miss all the artwork you can get with a physical CD. Most download sites might give you the front cover, rarely the back, and almost never include the insert artwork. Some of the sensory experience one can have in listening and looking at a new album is now lost in these digital download versions. We hope the artwork all comes back, and that download sites will make a greater effort to include the visual experience, perhaps in a pdf or something - the term digital booklet is thrown around now and that is fine as well.

Also note that Gravity Tree currently has no plans to re-release Life or Dessert?, but if there were enough interest of course it would be considered - most likely as a special remastered something or other.

Until then it appears we might have reached the end of Life or Dessert?

Gravity Tree would like to thank all the friends and fans who have supported the group with their ownership of a copy of Life or Dessert?, either physical or digital. More music is on its way...

Gravity Tree @ Beats Music

Those who have been paying attention have already noticed a Beats Music logo on the links page on this site...So the story goes like this:

Gravity Tree were on a site called MOG, and had all the currently released music up there. One day recently that changed: MOG was taken over by the company that runs Beats Music; in an unexpected twist, they decided to keep all of this #ProgRock noise online. Does that mean Gravity Tree is trendy?


The main Gravity Tree page on Beats Music:

https://listen.beatsmusic.com/artists/ar66913

...and the short url:
http://bit.ly/GTbeats

A short url for Ultimate Backward on Beats:
http://bit.ly/1nymxRj

BTW our earlier album Life or Dessert? is getting pretty hard to find as it is out-of-print, so while you may not be able to buy a CD, you can still download it, or now go to Beats and listen.

Here is the short url for Life or Dessert? at Beats:

http://bit.ly/1nZgmqT

More new places to find Gravity Tree music will post soon...

Ultimate Backward on XBox Music

Our #ProgRock album Ultimate Backward has its very own page on Xbox Music:

Here's the short URL:

http://bit.ly/1mwRT5E

Hear the whole album or just your favorite tracks (!).

Do us a favor and share it with your peeps using their "share" button - if you would be so kind...

More new links will be posted here soon, as well as news on the work-in-progress songs we'll be dropping this year. 

You can also read (and subscribe to) the newsletter, which just posted. Listed in the latest edition are quite a few new places to hear our music. We'll be getting as much of our back catalog up on Xbox Music ASAP.

Ultimate Backward Now Playing on Rdio

Our #progrock album Ultimate Backward can now be heard on Rdio!

http://bit.ly/UBrdio

or

http://www.rdio.com/artist/Gravity_Tree/album/Ultimate_Backward/

If you don't have a Rdio account already, accounts are free and you can listen to the entire album!

We'll have more music over there very soon.
Also expect some brand new music from Gravity Tree later this year...

Wait Added to SoundCloud

You can now find our song Wait on our SoundCloud playlist. The instrumental also has its own page.
Or, follow the link here:

http://bit.ly/1k7nvkm

You can also check out our SoundCloud player (in a previous post, below) - you'll see it added.

We're currently at work on a new song for release later this summer. Come back to the blog for more in a week or two...

Help Us Promote Wait

Help Gravity Tree get noisy! We're trying a song promotion and you can help out...

Tell Atlas Radio / Jupiter.fm that you want to hear our prog noise in the stores they provide music for.
(Just think, a proggy-rock instrumental playing while you're shopping or whatever...)

To help, just post to their Facebook wall, and request the instrumental song, Wait, by Gravity Tree.

Here's where to post:

http://rvrb.fm/ZXYEXs

(Wait originally appeared on our album ULTIMATE BACKWARD, and you can listen to the song here; or listen to the song on Spotify.)

You can also Re-Tweet our original Twitter post about the promo, which is here.

Gravity Tree thanks you for your support!

Our Prog Rock on Spotify

This was Tweeted out some time ago, but the blog is finally being updated: Gravity Tree has the song Building and the album Ultimate Backward on Spotify.

Here's a link and a Gravity Tree Spotify playlist...

https://bitly.com/ywHJSd



You might also be interested in hearing one of Alan's soundtrack cues called Afloat, which is now also available on Spotify. It's a sort of ambient-beat synth piece - not prog, but a cue from Alan's soundtrack music catalog - what he does when he's not writing for Gravity Tree.

Building, Interference, Aim to Please on SoundCloud

Interference on YouTube

Ending the Year with Chart Topping Highs

That sounds like a pop band's blog title, but it has become a bit crazy-weird at years-end.

First, our prog rock noisemaking broke into the Top 40 on two different and unrelated sites, ReverbNation and NumberOneMusic. In a recent newsletter, the unreasoning voice of Gravity Tree appealed to their fans to help them go further. But what happened was even more unexpected.

On ReverbNation, Gravity Tree climbed as high as #13 on the Rock charts. Over on N1M, the song Interference went to #6 on their US Rock chart, and all the way to #2 on the Progressive chart! This isn't a 3 minute, 3 chord wonder, mind you, but an 8+ minute piece. 

It didn't stay there long, because our song Threes Too actually bumped it out of the #2 slot. No, really.
The song Building also faired well in the month of December, rising to #14. Hey we're not making this up - how crazy is that?

We can't thank our fans and friends enough for doing the impossible this year, and hope the forthcoming new songs will help communicate our thanks for your sustaining support. BTW, if you aren't getting our newsletter (and in the latest issues' case, 3 free downloads), you can sign up here and join in on the noise.

Looking forward to even crazier events in 2014, we hope yours is healthy, happy and prosperous.

Thanks for listening!

Happy Holidays from Gravity Tree

CD and DOWNLOAD SALE AT CDBABY:

Our album ULTIMATE BACKWARD is now on sale at CDBaby.com!
When you buy one CD, you can get a second copy at 50% off; so pick up one as a gift to a prog rock-loving friend, and keep a 2nd for yourself :)
http://bit.ly/5U0bh
or
http://www.cdbaby.com/gravitytree2

Plus, the MP3 album download of ULTIMATE BACKWARD is just $5.99.

Our single crossover-Prog piece BUILDING is half off as well (download only):

http://bit.ly/buildingsong

If you're missing either of these releases, we hope you'll take advantage of the sale. These deals are good thru January 1st.

Meanwhile, holidays notwithstanding, Gravity Tree is at work on new songs. The blogs will update as soon as we have a demo or two. There will also be some detail on all the chart-topping action - if you can believe that!

Until then, Happy Holidays from Gravity Tree!

3 Million Plays

The 3 Million Mark: Big Number on a small scale... 

How unlikely it is, that this experimental, progressive noise

could hit the 3 Million mark on NumberOneMusic (or anywhere for that 

matter)...but it has happened nonetheless! 

Some time ago, Gravity Tree posted a number of odd and unusual

pieces on N1M. 

3,000,000 plays later, perhaps the lesson is that music lovers are

indeed looking for something different. 

You can check out Gravity Tree on NumberOneMusic at this link. 

Gravity Tree are truly grateful to all who helped make it to 3 Million. Even in the absence of a new album, the fanbase is growing in anticipation of the next giant noise bomb.

For the uninitiated, one can get Gravity Tree music (some might use the term "music" loosely; "noise" is also acceptable) all over the place: 

iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, CDBaby, you get the picture.

You can get free music, news and surprises, at NumberOneMusic or at the group's homebase on the interwebs.

Another crazy thing: The soundtrack/game music Alan (Gravity Tree's drummer/synthesist) has composed for many years, has suddenly become slightly popular. Without any warning, Alan's ReverbNation page made the Top 10 in its genre. There are hardly any fans listed there (so much for analytics!), but it happened anyway. 

So Alan's in the Top 10, and Gravity Tree hits 3 Million plays.

For those that made this happen: thanks for listening...3 Million times!

Ultimate Backward download

Just in time for Labor Day weekend, our 2nd album, Ultimate Backward, is on sale. Download the whole album for just 7 bucks usd from our friends over at CDBaby.com. And watch this blog for more news on the latest music. I've been busy integrating some cool new controllers (like the QuNeo) into the studio rig, and things are getting inspired. We may be late in the year, but we're just getting started...