I have great news! The Italian artist John Baumann flew all the way from Italy to record one of my songs Hiding Place with me! He found me on the global web radio Last.fm for some months ago and asked me if he could record together with me. Of course I said yes.

Since then we have been planning our project, sending emails and mp3s to each other. It was very exciting  to make preparations for our recording and to meet each other for the first time! But when I saw John’s smiling face when we met, I knew this would work fine.

Next day we went to studio for recording and everything went fine. Our voices suite well together and we sound really great together. I can hardly wait to play the song for you, I hope it will be very soon.

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The global radio Last.fm temporarily backs down from charging listeners. They have received tons of negative feedback.  The founder of Last.fm Richard Jones made an annauncement on March 24th about starting to charge listeners that don’t live in USA, UK or Germany.

I wrote a message to Richard Jones and got an answer. It was of course a good thing. It is important that the staff of Last.fm listen to their 30 million monthly listeners and 280 000 artists and labels but the answer was only an explanation about why they decided to start charging listeners.  There is now  a strike among listeners on Last.fm.

On March 30th a new annauncement  by Richard Jones was published.  He annaunced that Last.fm is delaying their move of beginning to charge listeners. It is good although we must keep in mind that this delaying is just temporary. We listeners and artists on Last-fm must keep fighting against this negative change, hoping that it will never happen.

Last.fm listeners are really the best listeners ever, many of them are listening to Last.fm all their awaken hours. I have never met listeners so devoted to music than on Last.fm. Last.fm has listeners from every country in the world and is not only a huge global radio but also a gigantic meeting place for music lovers from different parts of the world, recommending music to each other.

Keep Last.fm free! FREE IS FREE

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Richard Jones on the global Last.fm Radio announced  yesterday an upcoming change. Last. fm will only be free in USA, UK and Germany. Other listeners are very soon required $3.00 per month for listening! There are 30 million listeners from all over the world. There are over 7 million tracks available. Last.fm work with 280 000 labels and artists from all over the world, I am one of them.  

It is is very sad. There are many listeners who are going to leave their beloved Last.fm because of this. In a couple of hours Last.fm got over 1600 blog comments about the announcement so Last.fm disabled further comments. $3.00 is much money in some parts in the world. A girl from Colombia wrote that she has to pay a sum that would be as big as 12 euro i Europe every month.

Until now I have loved Last.fm. I have listeners from different parts of the world that send me wonderful feedback that really makes my day. I am of course a listener, too. I listen to music in a way I never did before, I get recommendations from other listeners that  introduce me new music. There are really people who love music, they live and breath music and are the best listeners ever. Many of them listen to music the whole time they are awake. 

We have to try to stop this madness. Keep Last.fm free!

Listen to my music on Last.fm here

Last.fm radio announcement

Lastfm is unfair  Bring back the free Last.fm

Last.fm payment subscription protest  FREE IS FREE

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