Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Independent Mastering) - Internationally renowned mastering studio, Independent Mastering, is giving away a total of SIX mastering packages throughout 2009 to randomly selected independent artists from all over the world. The studio began the giveaways in July and has awarded two prize packages so far.
The first random drawing was on July 31st and the winner was Brisbane, Australia group MEDOLLIC.
MEDOLLIC is a three piece act based in Brisbane, Australia featuring New Zealand born vocalist and songwriter, Lix Bacskay, along with up and coming producer and multi-instrumentalist James North and drummer Steve Pope. The group has been tracking their 11 song debut album, "Dollhouse", over the last 2 years. They expect to wrap production in the Fall, just in time to reap the rewards of their prize package.
The band describes their style as "PJ Harvey meets Alison Sudol from A Fine Frenzy, with a twist of Hollie Smith soul." Check out music and more at www.medollic.com
On August 31st the second winning artist was drawn and that winner is Reading UK act, GRAVITY CIRCUS.
GRAVITY CIRCUS is a project spearheaded by singer/songwriter Michael Neo with Gary Gimson on guitar, Michael James on drums and Neo also handling bass and overall ambience. What started out as a rock n' roll outfit has over time transformed to include electronic beats and dance music sounds.
So far GRAVITY CIRCUS has been quite active in Reading (home of the famous music festival), playing the live circuit there and receiving a fair amount of airplay on BBC Radio. You can hear some tracks at the band's Myspace page, www.myspace.com/gravitycircus
There are still four more mastering packages to give away and Independent Mastering is proud to be a supporter of independent music worldwide.
Independent Mastering is based in Nashville, known globally as Music City USA. Their eclectic discography includes a variety of record labels, producers, artists, and engineers from around the world and within all genres of music from Rock, Country, Americana, Bluegrass and Folk to R&B, Urban, Rap, Gospel and Classical.
Independent Mastering is a GRAMMY award winning facility with dozens of top selling and critically acclaimed album projects under their belt. The impressive client list so far in 2009 includes projects by John Waite, Jack White (of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather ), Cage The Elephant and the debut album from EMI/M17 act The Flying Machines. Also in the studio this year, Ray Benson, finishing Willie And The Wheel featuring Willie Nelson and Asleep At The Wheel (co produced by the late Jerry Wexler) Texas Country artist Aaron Watson and Nickel Creek's Sarah Watkins with producer John Paul Jones, of Led Zeppelin fame, wrapping her solo debut on Nonesuch Records.
Additional drawings will take place on the last day of every month through to December 31st, 2009. Artists who are interested, can read the rules and enter the giveaway at https://www.independentmastering.com/index.php/sign-up.
For more information, please visit the Independent Mastering website at https://www.independentmastering.com