Hello!
I thought it was time for an update before the end of the year. First of all I’d like to wish you all a Happy New Year, and a sincere thank you for your support and patience. I’m not so sure that the new music you’ll soon get to hear would exist without the stream of overwhelmingly encouraging messages from you over the last years. Though things have been rather quiet for a long time, 2012 will see the beginning of a new chapter for Amethystium, with a couple of “mini-releases” of new music and hopefully a new full-lenght album towards the end of the year. So I think this year will be exciting
NEW EP RELEASE IN JANUARY
The first taste of new music will be a four-track EP titled “Aurorae EP”, to be released digitally worldwide on the 20th of January. The tracklisting and cover artwork will later be up on the official website at amethystium.com (which will soon get a new look, so check back towards the end of next week).
NEW SONG PREVIEW
An early sneak-peek of the new music can be heard in the Music player on the official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/amethystium — please like the page if you haven’t already It’s an unmastered excerpt from the opening track called “Nightfall”. This song has a certain Nordic vibe to it, featuring Martine Lund Hoel playing the traditional hardingfiddle, and Erlend Kvam on cello.
Previews of all tracks on the EP will be available on both the website and on Facebook as soon as the final master is ready.
ITUNES RE-ISSUES, AMAZON MP3, AND SPOTIFY
This fall I re-issued the Isabliss album digitally on my own AM.mu label, and it’s always fun checking to see if there were any iTunes sales yesterday, and if so in which countries. So, if you haven’t got all the albums and want to make my day tomorrow, here’s the link to the albums on iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/amethystium
You can now also find Amethystium on Spotify (link: http://open.spotify.com/artist/3iCEJiyLrmF5bHH6w1vIz6 ). For now only “Isabliss” is available in the U.S., while all the albums can be heard in the other countries where Spotify has launched. Great if you add your favorite songs to your playlists and share them with friends!
A few have also been asking about availability on Amazon’s mp3 store, and you can now get “Isabliss” from Amazon MP3 worldwide + all the albums from the other Amazon stores. Links below:
US: http://amzn.to/pzuB3W
UK: http://amzn.to/amethmp3uk
Deutschland: http://amzn.to/amethmp3de
France: http://amzn.to/amethmp3fr
Japan: http://amzn.to/amethmp3jp
Best wishes for 2012,
Øystein Ramfjord