amBiEnt sUmmer on purevolume™

Ambient / Acoustic / Indie

Ambient-1.Of the surrounding area or environment. 2.Completely surrounding; encompassing.

-Its 345 am. Friends gathered. I step outside to taste the crisp air of morning; just before the commuters taint the skies with another day of industry.. Enlivened, we're here :) closer to the polka dotted sky. Far beyond the city limits, we left ourselves on the intersection of 124th and claude. We are free. Stones, and the trickling of water.. lucid dreams of epochs lost in infinity. One.. then two steps quickly escalate into what seems to be thousands... we laugh, and for a solstice, we're lost; not the kind of lost that leaves one panicked and hopeless; only, the kind that manifests itself in the human heart, the kind that leaves footprints in memories, and tears in eyes..

May 1

Update

Hello everyone. I apologize for my lack of nurturing this particular site (or the project itself) and not staying in touch as I should... I'll try better next time =) Onto the fantastic news. Akouein (strictly acoustic music from ambient summer) album that's been in the works for quite some time is to be finally released this summer around mid-june is what I'm aiming for. It will be a completely free download to all of you loyal fans, and will feature about 12 songs (possibly more if I feel inspired ;). At first when I started this project I felt I needed to keep the music free of charge as it is free of spirit. Financially it was a bit frustrating. So I thought I would charge a mild fee. Well Im back to square one. I figure we all have one shot in life to make a difference and one shot to make a stand... I want to honor the much forgotten medium in music nowadays and its the most important one too; you, the fans, my fans. To show my appreciation of you and my love for the purity of music and the project Akouein will be for you the fans :) But there's more. So far I've released only the acoustic side of the project and one hybrid (from the fusion album due later this year) titled "___". Im lacking a bit on the name "AMBIENT" in the project. So Im planning a full Ambient album due next spring after I get the proper equipment. This is the roadmap for Ambient Summer. Acoustic music will always be free of download with the first being the Akouein suite. After which There will be no "official" Acoustic cd and music will be released as soon as its finished production. Hybrid projects may or may not be free of charge it depends on the resources I use during production but all cost will go back into the project for more free stuff (including some shirts, buttons etc. down the line). Here is the part I've spent the most contemplating on and trying to sort out in how it will all go down in reality. The future of ambient summer is atmosphere, and emotion, hypnotic and sensational music to inspire. I was so frustrated with seeing so many pass me where I have failed and I think why I've failed in past ambition is my desire to please the critics rather than follow my heart. Ambient Summer was inspired by the beauty I witnessed and continue to witness in nature and put it into music. Not new age, not the traditional ambient music, or indie, or acoustic, but something different, and not different for the sake of being different ;) but for the sake of expression and soul; which I believe if followed correctly will open new paths for music. Whether its well received I dont care anymore, I plan on writing as I hear the music in the rustling of leaves, the whisper of wind and the music of life all around. And yes I will be performing this newer asummer music live when the equipment becomes available (about spring 09). so stay tuned, much change and much more music to come. Stay perfect <3 amBiEnt sUmmer

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September 4

fight 4 tab

IMPORTANT TO ALL MUSICIANS AND LISTENERS ALIKE:
This is one of many sites hit by the NMPA (national music publisher's association) and MPA (music publishers association of the us) that was threatened by these organizations and certain senators to take away the right to learn and teach guitar or other instruments over the internet by using tablerature. In the following the manager of this site explains real well what tab is and if you were ever self-taught on guitar I know you know what it is because you wouldnt be the musician you are today without it so please dont take this lightly. I have already emailed a letter to the following senators whom support this oppressive cause and sent an email to the MPA as well (nmpa's site doesnt work so well but i will be calling them).
Sen Dianne Feinstein
Sen Lindse Graham
Sen Joseph Biden
Sen Lamar Alexander
please google these names go to their sites and email them and be professional and try to avoid threats and vulgar language when talking to these people, it wont help our cause one bit.
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To all "Guitar Tab Universe" visitors:

The company which owns this website has been indirectly threatened (via our ISP) with legal action by the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) as well as the Music Publishers' Association (MPA) on the basis that sharing tablature constitutes copyright infringement. At what point does describing how one plays a song on guitar become an issue of copyright infringment? This website, among other things, helps users teach eachother how they play guitar parts for many different songs. This is the way music teachers have behaved since the first music was ever created. The difference here is that the information is shared by way of a new technology: the Internet.

When you are jamming with a friend and you show him/her the chords for a song you heard on the radio, is that copyright infringement? What about if you helped him/her remember the chord progression or riff by writing it down on, say, a napkin... infringement? If he/she calls you later that night on the phone or e-mails you and you respond via one of those methods, are you infringing? I don't know... but I would really like to know. If anyone has information on this, please email support@guitartabs.cc.

Apparently, the NMPA/MPA believes that the Internet may be on the foul side of the legality line they would like to draw here. For me, I see no difference. It's teachers educating students and covered as a 'fair use' of the tablature. The teachers here don't even get paid nor do the students have to pay this website to access the lessons.

An attack on this website is really an attack on every one of you who have told someone (in person, or via the written word, telephone, or e-mail) how you play a song on guitar. And who, especially among small websites, has the deep pockets to fight the NMPA/MPA? They use scare tactics while there is, in fact, no legal precedent on this matter (to the best of our knowledge). If you are interested in expressing your opinion to the NMPA/MPA, contact them via their respective websites. Please do not resort to vulgar language or insults.

Millions of people use the Internet to learn guitar, in one form or another. It appears the NMPA/MPA and their members do not want to support us and help us further our education. To you visitors from outside the USA or UK, can you find your favorite artists' "official sheet music" at your local music store? Even in the United States and United Kingdom, we often can not. The NMPA/MPA have a choice to make: either they support us as aspiring guitarists, or they choose to alienate their customer base. To date, not one sheet music publisher has contacted this website to either inquire as to our activities or to express interest in any type of dialogue or collaboration whatsoever. All we deserve is a cold, indirect, impersonal threat without any explanation? They should embrace new technologies or else become relics of the old economy.

Since I'm now 'worried' about working around tabs at all, I'm in a tough situation! Luckily, I'm fairly confident that if I alone listen to a song and then figure out how to play it by ear, I will then be able to enjoy using that knowledge to practice and improve my guitar playing skills. Is that what is necessary for everyone to do? Work these things out alone? What a sad situation.

Sincerely,
Rob Balch

Manager of "Guitar Tab Universe"

If you would like to help out and join the effort to fight for our freedom to tab and share, please check out MuSATO.

JOIN MUSATO AND EMAIL THE SENATE!!!!!!!
DONT LET THEM TAKE MUSIC AWAY FROM YOU
if you need more inspiration just look up the PERFORM ACT
and you'll see what they are doing to take away online streaming like itunes and youtube in mpeg formats. think of the bands and music you listen to if it werent for tab and these resources they wouldnt be around and your life would suck even more.

In opposition to this act i will begin to write tab for all the songs in my solo project and post them on both myspace and purevolume I will also enable full downloadable songs for all of my compositions for ambient summer on purevolume in the next couple days (the tab takes longer to write but it will be up) I ENCOURAGE BANDS AND OTHER SOLO ARTISTS WHOM SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND REMEMBER THEIR ROOTS TO DO THE SAME AND FIGHT FOR YOUR FANS AND THE FUTURE GENERATION OF MUSICIANS TO COME!
to join MUSATO visit www.guitarzone.com
Please email your senator along with those names listed atop of this page of senators who are for this act you can find who your senator is at U.S. Senate Find Just select your state and they'll have a link to their email on their websites it doesnt have to be a long letter just something like I AM AGAINST THE PERFORM ACT or a statement like that will do. Bug them and get their attention

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WEATHER PROBLEMS-a very talented person you must listen
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January 28

so...whats with the coyote?

Awhile back I was looking for the perfect icon to represent Ambient Summer, an image that represents the core beliefs the gravity that holds ambient summer together and that formed it in the first place. It seemed that everyone has some sort of bird or some other animal or symbol that usually looks cool but has nothing to do with the soul of the music and its source. I searched long and hard and wasnt until I had come across an old magazine in my basement that had a picture of a coyote in the snow. Not thinking I'd find anything interesting in the article I thought why not couldnt hurt. Shuffling through the pages I read about how the U.S. government spends something around 400 million dollars in tax money to hunt down and kill coyote's in an effort to limit their growing population. It went on to say that coyote's before humans were such a dominant foe in nature were on the lower end of the food chain with wolfs and bears being at the top they would keep the population in check but now that humans had killed off so many bears and wolf's the coyote population will continue to flourish. The article went on to say that coyotes are used to being "hated" and hunted down first by bears and wolf's now by humans, and that they had "adapted" to surviving under these harsh persecuted conditions. It was a fact that more of the pups would survive when born under hard circumstances and that when less persecuted only a few coyote's pups would survive. On top of the US governments efforts there are certain communities whom promote the killing of these animals and hold free competitions on whoever could kill the most coyote's wins a dinner or some other ridiculous prize. The one quote that pushed me to this symbol of what ambient summer is about is one that put everything into words that matched perfectly with the projects philosophy:

Coyotes, are the ultimate icon for success and defiance of humans who think they can control nature.Bob Crabtree; Research Director of Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies

no matter how much they are persecuted and hunted down and killed, they will continue to flourish and grow even stronger in the tough times.

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November 1

a CLICHE PHRASE

war...what is it good for?

we've become calloused to the word WAR, somewhere along the lines I would hope that at least one soul would look back through history and see the countless wars mankind has encountered and the reasons behind them... think of world war I or the vietnam war, when people think of these the massive deaths are what come to mind NOT the excuses and "reasons" behind the motive. Yet we continue on and wage wars against more people and fail to see the results of the past....nothing changes only the new population due to all the deaths from that war....please people stop allowing "LEADERS" and politicians tell YOU what is right and wrong and what is justifyable to killing another human being. Please stand up for what YOU believe in NOT what they tell you to believe in.

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October 9

PLEASE! read this

I've recently had some requests regarding the sales of my songs/albums. The reason why Im not selling them is because the album is not yet complete however let me explain something to you about ambient summer and part of the reason why i created this project of mine. A couple of big reasons was the influence of nature I wanted to capture what i had seen, felt, heard etc. and put it into song. Then i wanted to create something unique but not crappy cause usually when you hear someone say "oh its different" in that case different usually equals CRAP. The third reason was to go back to basics with music back to the days when music was a thing to just kick back and relax to without having to concern yourself with the question "money for cd or for gas?" or "$12.00 for a 6 song album!?" or this new trend of artists suing their fans for downloading (pirating) their music. I say to hell with these selfsish no talent people. If a person spent the time and the risk downloading my music i would be honored. I will sell the albums for a small fee only because i need money to continue making them and the supplies add up. but it'll be cheap i promise. in the mean time if you like a song and want it email me at ambientsummer@yahoo.com and i'll email you the song for free. To hell with these fools who su their fans. they forget the reason why they're rich and famous its because of YOU! YOU MAKE IT possible YOU are the reason for OUR success YOU are my AUDIENCE my FAMILY my FRIENDS and most importantly MY FANS! my reward is your LENDING AN ear to my MUSIC thank you for your support all i ask is you be honest and enjoy it to the fullest HOPEFULLY others will see my sacrifice and example and follow but music is FREE OF SPIRIT it should be FREE OF COST TOO!! so enjoy my friends live love and be ambient in every way possible im sick of this pathetic monetary world we live in this is my gift to you for being a terrific fan! and a wonderful person :)

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