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 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.

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.

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!

Life or Dessert? almost out-of-stock

As strange as it may seem, our 1st album, LIFE OR DESSERT? is about to go out-of-print.

There seem to be a couple of copies at the warehouse and possibly at a few stores. But Amazon has been sold out for months and there are only a couple of copies left at CDBaby. If you've been holding out and still want a physical CD - with the cool black-and-white fold-out poster, all the lyrics, and the rest of the artwork - I wouldn't wait any longer.

I have to add here that we're pretty old school about our love for album art. This was one of the favorite things about our 1st album, with the fold-out poster and all.

Of course, you can still download the album at CDBaby, iTunes, Amazon. You just miss out on the artwork, which we think is pretty cool. Going, going...

Free holiday album features Gravity Tree

New music is in the works from Gravity Tree, but...

...While you're waiting, you can reward yourself with a FREE holiday music album download from Melodic Revolution Records.

"The Spirit of December" features music from a wide variety of progressive artists, including Gravity Tree. In the spirit of the season of giving, it is offered as a free download, and the link is delivered to your email address, so you won't lose it in case you have a download problem.

Here's the short link:

http://bit.ly/ryBlNE

Last chance to grab Free Song

If you haven't grabbed our song Wait yet, be sure to do so soon. We're going to be rotating in another free song, and don't want you to miss out having that one.

signup.gravitytree.com

Last time we told you about our special edition of Conversing with the Dead, now available in hi-res FLAC, ALAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis and 320bps MP3 formats.

http://gravitytree.bandcamp.com

And its not too late to pick up our new "Conversing with the Dead" themed T-shirts. There's a design matching the artwork to the hi-res release of Conversing with the Dead, and also a more '50's sci-fi design (see image).

Meanwhile, we're working on more new music, which will be the topic of our next blog. In the meantime, don't forget to sign up and get "Wait" for free while you still can...

Aim to Please on AiiRadio.net

Beginning this week, you'll be able to hear Aim to Please by tuning in to web radio www.aiiradio.net.

Aiiradio is a web site/station that serves up a lot of tasty independent progressive music (as well as a bit of comedy). We've been giving it a listen of late and liked what we heard, so we were pretty excited when they approached us to put our songs in rotation.

Aim to Please is the first song of ours to be featured on aiiradio.net, but we're sure it won't be the last, and we hope to have more songs from Ultimate Backward included in their prog rock programming. They also have a chatroom and forums, as well as the live streaming. Make sure you tune in and check out all the cool prog rock tuneage...head over to their site for all the details.

Wait, Remastered, Now Available as FLAC, MP3, AAC

It is the holiday season once again! With Black Friday behind us, and Cyber Monday (plus who knows how many other 'sales events') at hand, you are most likely picking and pondering over gifts and lists. Perhaps you are wrestling over what to get that picky music listener who may already own the entire King Crimson, Yes and/or Flower Kings catalogs. We have a couple of ideas...

Melodic Revolution Records has released Vol.2 of A Progressive Christmas, which features some great, modern prog bands, and even a little Vivaldi. We encourage you to check it out.

Also of note to our fans, the Gravity Tree Ultimate Backward instrumental "Wait", which was featured on the original Melodic Revolution Records release, "A Very Progressive Christmas, Vol.1", is available again this year. Our song was carefully remastered especially for this holiday album. Here's a direct link to the new "Wait" page:

http://bit.ly/eaAKSP

You can listen to the song full-length, as well as all the songs from both volumes, at Melodic Revolution Records' web pages.

You will find "Wait" available in several download formats (your choice at download), including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, and FLAC. For the audiophiles in our ranks, this FLAC file is about as close to our original master as anything we've heard so far in a compressed format file.

Be sure to check it out.

http://bit.ly/eaAKSP



Thanks for listening, and happy holidays!

Jango Internet Radio, more song news and updates

Gravity Tree has been finding new friends and fans from airplay on Jango internet radio. Can we still call it airplay?

Be sure and stop by and give a listen (it's free!). Jango will be adding more songs soon. They've set up a Gravity Tree page there:

http://www.jango.com/music/Gravity+Tree

More updates: Still trying to get the Gravity Tree Yahoo Group a little more current. Wondering if these kinds of sites are just giving way to Facebook and Twitter...

As for the latest song, it's been delayed by some unforseen events, including an injury Alan sustained which limited his ability to finish the drum tracks. He's all better now, so Gravity Tree is back in record mode again.

Beta Napster has Gravity Tree prog rock

Anyone check out the new Beta version of Napster? For the most part, we like the new layout, especially the darker color scheme (for those who care ;-o). btw they actually pay artists for downloads now - it's completely legit these days.

Anyway, you can find most of our music there. We say 'most', because the new downloads like Building are exclusive to other sites, like our own webstore.


So if you like to get your music from Napster, be sure to check us out over there.

Okay, back to the studio to work on those new songs...

www.gravitytree.com

Our prog rock is now on iLike

Progressive rock duo Gravity Tree (that's us!) is now on iLike. "Life or Dessert?", our first CD, is there now, and songs from the CD "Ultimate Backward" should show up soon. You can also 'Like' our songs on Facebook, and it appears Purevolume has adopted a similar voting method, if not the same.

So make sure you stop by and 'like' us. Here's the link to our music on iLike:

http://bit.ly/8tMsAL

Also: we will soon be posting news about a holiday-themed compilation disc, so look for that on our next blog in the next few days (a week or so?)...

Until then, don't forget to 'Like' us on iLike, Facebook, or Purevolume.

http://bit.ly/8tMsAL

Thanks for listening,

Gravity Tree

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Prog rock on Amie Street

BTW...
These crazy folks are giving away our music for a limited time. If you visit and it's not free, it will still be cheap!

Any prog rock fans in the house?

What better way to say hello than to mix music genre slang. Except to say, hello and welcome to the OFFICIAL Gravity Tree blog. But wait, why does this blog exist? And who writes this thing?

The second question first: Some of you know me as GravityDrmmr. Other folks call me Alan. I participate in a music group (as there are all kinds of groups, I had to specify it as music in nature) called Gravity Tree. We play a fairly non-commercial blend of guitar-drenched noise many folks call progressive rock, or prog rock, if you will. Some call it art rock, avant-prog, or any number of other things but by now you've gotten the idea.

There are a number of reasons why we decided to come late to the blog party and start one of these things.
One was that I wanted a place to communicate to fans and interested bystanders without all the usual glitter, hype, pomp and what-have-you. So there aren't any flashing banners, pop-ups or swirling advertisements insisting that you buy our stuff or someone else's.

Another reason was that we didn't really have a stand-alone blog. There's a news page on our website, but the site's gotten fairly large and there are other more interesting pages to be found there. We have a blog on MySpace, but we're finding a number of fans just aren't on MySpace or just don't like it up there. This blog is for those folks.

I'll try to keep it up-to-date with any really critical band news. But mostly I'll probably ramble on about music, ours and others. We'll see where this goes.

For now, thanks for stopping by. Talk at you soon.