[microsound-announce] and/OAR Diffusion Shop sale and CD re-issue plans

[and/OAR]

Hello everyone,

(my apologies if you receive this more than once)
To get a head start on an upcoming fundraising campaign to (finally) 
start re-issuing
early and/OAR CDR releases on CD, I have marked down most of the items 
in the
Diffusion Shop. Please note that customers outside of the USA can 
contact me
and ask about getting a price reduction on their postage (if they order 
more than
$30 worth of items). If you have a PayPal account, then we can bypass 
the shop
and conduct the transaction directly. Otherwise, as has been the case since
2001, shipping in the USA is free with a purchase.

Some items will only be marked down until September 20th and the rest 
will be
marked down until the end of September. Most non-and/OAR items in the shop
are down to only 1 or 2 copies; so get them while you can at these 
prices, because
once they're gone, they're gone. Over the past few years, I've been 
focusing less
and less on distributing other label releases, due in large part to 
working with a
drastically reduced budget than in previous years. In fact, no releases 
were issued
in 2013 due to a major lack of sales or other financial support. This 
was the first
time in the label's 13 year history that this occurred, and hopefully 
the only time!

  So, if you know people who might enjoy the releases and the prices, 
please tell them
about the sale and point them to the shop. I would greatly appreciate it.
www.and-oar.org/store <http://www.and-oar.org/store>

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Next, I want to talk more about the planned CD re-issues.
As mentioned, I've been busy planning the next "crowdfunding" campaign 
to cover
the costs of finally re-issuing a number of older out-of-print CDR 
releases on CD.
I don't intend to re-issue all of the CDR releases, but I will start 
with the most
requested titles first, and work my way backward from there. Due to 
lower demand
than in the past, most of the a/O CD re-issues will be very limited in 
number in
order to preserve the works on a longer lasting physical format for the 
sake of
posterity and for collectors (such as myself!). One copy of each 
re-issue will also
be sent to the British Library Sound Archive (who already has a number 
of a/O
field recording releases in their collection).

Among the re-issues pondered are the Phonography.org field recording 
compilations.
This project will require its own fundraising campaign, plus support 
from those whose
tracks are featured on the releases. However, instead of a 
straight-ahead re-issue,
the idea would be to release a revised boxed CD set containing most of 
the tracks,
and maybe some new ones along with liner notes. Any tracks that have 
since been
released elsewhere will not be included in the set. Also, if I cannot 
contact certain
people, their tracks might end up being replaced as well. As with the 
other re-issues,
  these editions will be very limited. Since it is now possible to have 
smaller numbers
of glass-mastered replicated CDs made, the need for using CDRs to 
publish work
has drastically been reduced. More discussion about this project can be 
done on
the Phonography forum.

Thanks very much for your time and support!
Dale

and/OAR
www.and-oar.org <http://www.and-oar.org>


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