Laudanum (we give our revenues to our believers)_

(Saturday 19 july: Naf back on line.)

Big Plan:

We will give all of our revenues* to our believers
starting august 1st of this year.

Before you read the big plan, here's some wonderful news on the creative side:

Marco Galliano (Marcog) has agreed to become the fourth member of Laudanum. He'll add a crucial dimension to the music, designing the webpages for the songs, building the website, outlining internet strategies with us, and playing the lead triangle.

The big plan then.

We are going to sell our songs on every possible website.. (we're on Amiestreet since a few weeks ... check it out.)
You’ll receive the percentage of income equal to the percentage of the 50K you have invested in us. So, if you have one Laudanum part, you get a 1/5000 part of the money we make.
Believers will get screenshots of our earnings on the different sites each month. The last day of each month we count believers and calculate who gets what. We give ourselves untill august 1st to organize the accounts. And then we'll let the believers know how they can help out on each site. The specific site-strategies will be posted on our own new website (Marco's working on that one).
Pay out is when we reach 50K. If you have left us by then, you loose your share.
As we are at 3,4K now, that indeed means a big part of our revenues (93,2%) doesn’t get divided yet. But that money will be kept aside and will be divided among the believers as well when we reach 50K.
During the “recording period” the deal doesn’t change.

When the album is out, the deal will be about the recorded songs only. And the way the revenues are divided changes slightly, as Sellaband gets 1/3 of the revenues on the recorded songs for two years. But we’ll add our 1/3 to the 1/3 for the believers.

When Sellaband looses its 1/3, two years after, we keep 1/3 of the revenues on the 50K album for ourselves, and we give the believers the remaining 2/3 … forever (while normally you stop sharing revenues all together). We keep providing you with screenshots, and pay out will be once a year.
We’ll have to find a way to bind us to that promise legally, we know. Suggestions are welcome!

How will we promote our songs?
(we take about a month to write and record a song)
Every song gets its own web page (made by the indescribable Marco Galliano), and each one will have a different atmosphere to give the song an extra dimension. Here's an example: Special page for Astronomy: read the Walkthrough to win 2 free laudanum parts.
In time, every song will get its own video clip as well. We have the equipment, but it may take until 2009 before we start making them.

The covers, the personalized versions and revenues on a song written for you will still be available, but only for the first 60 believers.

*as for the collabs, keep in mind we can only give you our own share

To find out about the incentive tracks: scroll down to the incentives!

Other Sellaband pages:
Sellaband Page 2: the progressive songs
Sellaband Page 3: the popsongs
PLS ONLY BUY PARTS ON OUR MAIN PAGE (THIS ONE). We only do this to show you more than 3 songs. We may add even more pages.

We're also in The Collaboration Project

Other links:
        Amiestreet                Reverbnation                Myspace

        Website for "The Asylum" album        Naf on YouTube


3 Incentive tracks on our page now
1) "Snail" for Talentscout (personalized mp3)
2) "Rockstar" for Paul (favorite cover; original song by Nickelback)
3) "Astronomy" for Marco (favorite cover; original song by Blue Oyster Cult)


INCENTIVES:
1 prt: 4 mp3's
3 prts: 10 mp3's
6 prts: Full CD ("The Asylum") + 5 bonus tracks
*12 prts: personalized mp3
*25 prts: we cover your favorite song
*100 prts:
you receive full rights on a song written for you. We won't compose a full arrangement for this one. It will be piano and vocals only. We upload it on the sites and all the revenues are yours as long as you keep the 100 parts.

*only for the first 61 believers (list in our blog)

We'll record a song with the lyrics being the names of the first 61 believers.

And what's next?

1) Collaborations:
a. "Jurgung Meister", a song by Telepathy, we will arrange.
b. "Could Have Been" (with Moorlandt, Kristen, Annie Bacon and MR-10)
c. Multi collab (with Caya, Telepathy and Moorlandt) on "Induction"
d. "Indian Love Poem" (with Telepathy)

2) Haunted (Poe) cover for MaryJo

3) Our own songs: "Abe", "Tonsil Flora" and "Not Sure"