A new release, and three more ambient releases due soon....

I got word last week through my digital aggregator Distrokid (who are quite good) - that Waiting For Rain (Awashed III) is being rejected by the Apples/Amazons because I apparently am too prolific at making music...  They are afraid of flooding the market with my music...  Never mind that there are probably millions and millions of albums and songs already out there...  I am amazed that my music puts that big of a dent into the music industy.... Total bullshit...

So, Waiting For Rain (Awashed III) is available only through Bandcamp...  Bandcamp is an awesome service...

http://iannaismith.bandcamp.com/album/waiting-for-rain-awashed-iii

Also, coming soon....  "Color Eternal (Awashed IV)" - more ambience with Alina Naismith cover photo.  And, "Subaquatic Sun" - more ambience....  And, "Eye Sea" - tba...

Hopeful Souls - the second release with drum-god Calvin Weston

Wow.... I'm tardy... much music since the last post...

The coolest by far is the second collaboration with Calvin Weston....  I'll say it again --- unbelievable union --- he has been one of my favorite drummers since the early 80's.  Him, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Jack DeJohnette, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley.... etc etc....  However, a couple of years ago - we connected on facebook and we decided to work within a highly improv, jazz-rock-fusion music-scape.... well, not really - he supplied the drums and said "do your thang..."...  NO ZONE was the result - and it was so fun....   HOPEFUL SOULS is the latest effort - but this time, instruments from around the world seeped in along with the driving fusion...  I am very happy with both - and cosmically elated to work with one of my drum idols I was banging my head to 35+ years ago...!!!!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hopeful-souls/id1236381992
http://www.amazon.com/Hopeful-Souls-Naismith-Calvin-Weston/dp/B072BSD7P7
http://iannaismithgrantcweston.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful-souls