Seila Chiara News&Blog

Listening platforms

2012-01-21

Rive is available, since yesterday, on a bunch of listening platforms, like :

Deezer

iTunes (with a special pdf lyrics booklet)

Amazon

Spotify (actually not yet for Spotify but it's coming)

Gokoyoko

...and a bunch of other ones.

The point is simply to have our music accessible, whatever your listening habits may be. You can also buy the album digitally from these platforms in advance, before we release it via bandcamp as a "name-your-price" download.

Bandcamp

2012-01-17

In preparation for the digital & 10" vinyl release of Rive, we created a bandcamp. For now there are our previous efforts on there, which you can share and embed as you please (if you want to help us out and share what we do). Everything will be "pay-as-you-want" for now. Our old listen/download system has now been replaced with the bandcamp stuff, so everything goes through there.

Our bandcamp is here

Rive US Limited Edition

2011-11-17

Quick word to say that Rive will also be released in the US, thanks to Harrison from the Chicago-based record label Kid Sister Everything.

This release will be a limited edition : 100 copies with an alternate handmade artwork. We'll get a few copies to sell in Europe as well.

We'll keep you posted on this release as things advance. Rive should go to press soon.

Some quick news...

2011-10-24

- We're still working on getting the 10" of Rive released. The artwork is finished, now we just have to get it pressed, but it's taking a bit of time... We hope to get it out before winter!

- We will also be releasing the EP digitally a short time after, probably in a pay-what-(or-if)-you-want-but-dont-forget-to-share-it kind of way, maybe on bandcamp or just like we've done it until now, because my plan to rebuild our website is getting its ass kicked by a tone of other work.

Stay-tuned and sorry for the time-stretching release...

Interview

2011-08-28

We answered our first interview!

We talk about the tour with Nonrem, the writing, recording and mixing process of "Rive", what the songs are about, our plans for the future... Along with a few pictures from the tour.

It's in English and Japanese.

You can read it HERE.

Many thanks to Kimi and Shun!

Rive - official release

2011-08-24

So we're officialy releasing our new EP Rive today. This means we've sent out the first ordered copies this morning, and well, basically that it's official (wouhou).

The artwork for the CD, by Aude Lemaitre and Magali TempÃ¨re.

"Rive" represents a lot to us. It's 3 years of work, with many ups and downs, scares, frustrations, delays, impatience, and a lot of passion while we played the songs during practically every live show we did. We wrote the songs during the year of 2008, right after writing the songs for We'll Build an Ark, and before writing the songs for our self-titled/split, recorded it ourselves towards the end of 2009 (short film about it here), and then it took 2 years to get it mixed, mastered and released. That's a long time to wait while having the songs in your hands and desperately wanting to share them...

We answered an interview for Tokyo Jupiter Records which should be out in the coming days, where we talk about all this in more detail, about why it took so much time, what the songs talk about, what our intentions were for this EP, etc. if you're interested to know more about it.

A few words on what will be happening these next days :
- The vinyl release is underway, but we still don't have a release date yet. Should be in 1-2 months, I hope.
- There will be a digital release of Rive, on places like iTunes and stuff, for those of you who want to help us out by buying our stuff but don't want to get physical. Again, we don't know when yet.
- We're rebuilding this website, to set up a new way to let you listen to all the songs, find out where to get the albums, and ask for a free/donate download if you don't have the means to buy it, want to give us your own amount or believe digital music should be free. We're hoping to get this ready in a few weeks.
- Until then, no download or streaming for Rive, but you can practically discover every song through videos and music players scattered over the web while you wait.

Here's where you can order the CD :
If you're in Japan :
- Tokyo Jupiter's online store
- Sunday Worst Enemy Distro
- Hyper Enough Records
- Diskunion
Anywhere else :
- Tokyo Jupiter's BigCartel store
- Check out our buy page, or send us an email.

Anyways, we hope you enjoy "Rive", it's yours now so take care of it for us...

Rive release preview videos #3 - Fatuity Fair + Rive orders starting

2011-08-22

So here's the final preview from "Rive" : the song is called "Fatuity Fair", recorded at Mikrokosm recording studios last June.

You can now order the CD version of "Rive" from us (released by Tokyo Jupiter Records - we have 100 copies imported from Japan) for 10â‚¬ + shipping price by sending us a nice sweet email to seilachiara@free.fr.

We will start shipping orders on August 24, the day of the official release.

Don't forget to browse our "buy" page so you can check if there's other things you feel like ordering at the same time.

Rive release preview videos #2 - The Mutiny of All Your Gestures & Gaea

2011-08-15

"Rive" will be released next week (August 24th) through Tokyo Jupiter Records, and here are two new songs (well actually an intro and a song) from it, called "The Mutiny of All Your Gestures" and "Gaea", from the live in session at Mikrokosm recording studios last June.

"Rive" preorders through Tokyo Jupiter Records

2011-08-13

(Cover of our new EP "Rive", which will be released in CD on August 24 through Tokyo Jupiter Records. Vinyl release will be coming up later on.)

You can now preorder our upcoming EP called "Rive" in CD format, through our record label Tokyo Jupiter Records on their online Big Cartel store.

The first 30 copies sold will be shipped with limited buttons, and if you order both Rive and our split record with OrfÃ¨vre, shipping will be free!

We will also be setting up a preorder in France, as we have just received some copies to sell. More info on that soon...

Rive release preview videos #1 - Smitten Kitten

2011-08-08

During our recording session at Mikrokosm Recording Studios last June, we filmed three songs off of our upcoming EP "Rive", which will be released on August 24 in Japan (CD format - vinyl coming later in Europe) by Tokyo Jupiter Records.

While we wait for this release, we will be releasing one video every week or so, so you can start to discover some of the songs.

This first video is of the song called "Smitten Kitten":