Sarah Masen News Updates

Sarah's music now on Noisetrade

2009-07-23T20:53:53+00:00

Sarah's music is now available from innovative music destination NoiseTrade. David Dark (Mr. Sarah Masen) tells the story...

"I made $10.95!" Sarah exclaimed from behind a laptop this morning. She went to bed, woke up, and witnessed the appearance of nearly eleven dollars worth of public affirmation of her song-craft which braved the oceans of Internet while she slept. All manner of things made well.

I wish I was more the lyrical wit, but I'm the one in this relationship who types out the largest number of straightforward sentences (My books, let me say it again, are footnotes for her lyrics). It befalls me to offer the following report.

A little over two years ago, Sarah had a couple of performance appointments closely aligned, Calvin's Festival of Faith and Music (Emmylou, Neko, Sufjan) and the Greenbelt Festival (Billy Bragg, Over the Rhine), and she suspected it would be impolite to show up without what the young people call product. With the help of Todd Greene and Tony Doling of Bulb, Chris Leonard and Brad Ritter of the Contemporary Music Center, and Brother Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, she'd long accumulated three EP's worth of material and now saw fit to put together individual, everyone different, stenciled artworks (Like snowflakes I tell you!) to house the plastic. They sold, we might say, like hotcakes, but the demand, mail-order-paypal-wise, was a little more than we could comfortably manage. She ended the online dealio, but often sent them out for free (her anxious partner noticed) to e-mailers whose demands dribbled in via the mostly quiet but still glowing website.

So, just last night, we're having dinner with Mark and Molly Nicholas at our home. Inquiries concerning one another's projects leads to Mark's casual mention of Noisetrade goings-on. We begin to suspect this is what ancient texts refer to as The Shape of Things to Come. So many of our friends and neighbors have climbed aboard. Why not? Joe Kirk and Derek Webb strike us as upstanding citizens. Wouldn't it be cool it being a gift economy we're in and all? Molly types away, images are shared, and after they've gone home we get an e-mail pronouncing it a done deal. We'll have the other EPs up over the next few months.

I think it's an excellent fit. People who extol Sarah's music have always been potential friends and co-conspirators rather than--what do they call them?—fans? Share away, my friendlies. Publicize as you see fit. Blog if you want to. Blog around the world. Consider yourselves deputized. Enjoy.

Older albums available again

2008-12-27T16:36:14+00:00

Sarah's earlier albums which had become hard to find are now available again through Amazon's new MP3 service. You can find The Holding, Sarah Masen, Carry Us Through, and The Dreamlife of Angels for download now.

Talk of Sarah in the Tennessean

2008-01-22T12:36:53+00:00

Sarah is one of a number of artists discussed in an article published in The Tennessean about Vanderbilt University's current concert series. Check it out on their website.

Greenbelt Photos Now Up

2007-09-04T10:53:45+00:00

A new feature we have just added to the site is integration with the excellent flickr.com to show photos from Sarah's gigs. The first example can be found over in the listing for Sarah's Greenbelt 2007 gigs. If you have photos you'd like to contribute to help us build up the archive, follow the instructions on the gigs' pages, or email webmaster@sarahmasen.com for assistance.

All New Website

2007-08-24T12:06:00+00:00

Welcome to the all new Sarah Masen website. The site's in the process of getting a facelift to celebrate the release of Sarah's new EPs. The version you're seeing at the moment is very much a work in progress. Expect much more soon! For now, don't forget to check out the new EPs which you can purchase using the links to the right. You can hear them streaming in full at last.fm and see video clips and hear tracks on myspace.