Happy Rez Day Zorch, Outside the Box collection available,The REALLY BIG HOUSE might be sinking, and #22 on the charts

I feel a bit ill this morning. I was going to sleep in, but.... well more on that later.

Happy Rez day Zorch

Three years ago today, one Zorch Boomhauer (AKA Jack Kinagree) took his first virtual steps in the wacky world of Second Life, and started down the path to greatness. At my very first Rez day party, I had a big blow out of a concert featuring some of the best talent on the grid. One of the more established artist booked to play the show, had a hissy fit and stormed off about three days before the big show and I replaced him with a new comer to the Second Life Music Scene. Ms, Lexie Luan (AKA Lexie Smith). That event was Lexie's big coming out party.

Two years after the fact, Lexie is a well established Performer on the grid, and now half of the musical Juggernaut known as Kinagree-Smith.

As for Zorch.... well suffice it to say, 2/3rds of those in the Music community consider him a rather opinionated jack ass, and 1/3rd considers him to be one of the greatest songwriters to stumble upon the grid.

It's possible both could be right.

Good, bad, or lagged out. Happy Rez day Zorch the grid is a more interesting place with you in it.

Zorch: Outside the box collection available today!!!

It's been three years in the making, but you can snag a copy today. The Complete recorded works of Zorch Boomhauer in one hefty download.

This is 12 full collections.
117 MP3 files.
488 Megabytes of a download and HOURS of musical fun.

While many Supporters have a goodly number of these collections, this is a great way to get your fill and then some. If you are a new Supporter... we'll I'm sure you are downloading already.

Speaking of downloading, there is a PayPal button so you can start now. Note, when you pay the download begins so please only pay when you are ready to download.

Pay Pal button.

Included are

Get Zorched
Black and White
White and Black
Songs in the Key of Green
The Sound of Red
Mantled in a deeper Shade of Blue
Show 507 LIVE
Story and Songs Volume One
Shadow and Light
Ashes and Dreams
Me and My Monkey
Emotion and Reason

There are two bonus downloads you can choose to pick up or not.

Zorch Boomhauer and Dangerous Fun:Love songs, Hate songs, In between.

And

Zorch Boomhauer and The Disposable Art Project: Retrospective

When you purchase a copy of “Outside the box”, you helping us undertake other projects. If we were rich, we would be doing all sorts of crazy stuff. But the lack of funds keeps us rather tethered to reality.
No, we don't expect to get rich from this, but we do hope to make enough to underwrite at least some portion of our musical adventures.

So get the full measure of the Zorch experience and support the arts.

The REALLY BIG HOUSE is leaking

I have to wonder if a building can sink. It is raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock and while the roof always seems to leak here, now the water is leaking in the studio. Hey got some LIVE footage of the drips. I feel like Anderson Cooper.

Hey, wake me up and give me a video camera... I go crazy.



#22 on the Philadelphia Folk Artist charts, the obsession continues

Once again, thanks for all the support, only 21 positions from #1.

I'm going to try and NOT prattle on too much about this, but remember when I told you the Philadelphia Folk charts were competitive? Well, we've managed to slip up into the top 1,000 Nation wide (# 949 Folk Artist Nation wide) and still linger outside the top 20 in Philadelphia.

Once again, we can do nothing to further our climb up the charts, so I thank you all for your support.

Tales from the Recording studio

A Post from Lexie

Ive decided to give Jack the night off from blogging although for some reason I am sure he will add some kind of foot note as he is will definitely have something to add. Its just the way he rolls. But tonight, I would like to tell you about the newest projects that we are forging forward with

We had a team meeting this afternoon with the developers of the Kinagree Smith website, who also happen to be our managers desi and sally. Boy did we luck out… not only are they organizing everything on SL but their creative efforts and talents are creating the most banging web site ! Soon you will able to listen to our live internet performances directly from the new website every time there is a live show. Also, if you join the website by mobile phone or email, you will automatically get a text updating you about current information up and coming events and hopefully you will also know when we are about to start a show and if your not in world you can listen to us online from our site.

Next, we had this little dilemma as to product. What that means is , though jack and I have both recorded much music, ( me not as much as Jack but seriously I don’t personally know anyone that has released as much music as he has) we still don’t have a kinagree smith release so…. Tonight we began. After serious song choosing over the last week , we decided to put together a six song ep first as our mega cd will take much longer to produce. We pondered over which songs to release on this Cd and decided on these….
Mo annam kara
Letting go
So into you
Find love
Stay in the moment
Trust
Sweet taste of home

Now three of these songs have been released in previous cds and mp3 collection but there are also three songs which are brand spanking new and though we have performed two of them , we have yet to record them. Trust, Stay in the moment and Find Love (which some of you know as Ocar) are being recorded for this collection. It will be a full band with the help of Vallery Barbin from Atlanta Ga , on bass and Chris Gately from Philadelphia, pa on drums.

Now while we were recording tonight Jack decided he would whip out his video cam and record me recording. It was 4 am and need I say any trace of make up had vanished by then and being videod while recording adds absolutely no pressure…. NOT !!!! A Boy and his toy…. It’s a dangerous combo.We finished the take and decided to go on a tour ghost hunt for Elvis. This is part of the reason as to why I am blogging tonight , cause Jacj is in complete edit mode. I don’t know if this is going to make it on youtube by tomorrow but you can be sure it will be up way sooner than later.

Tomorrow is a working day on second life for Kinagree Smith , so if your going to be on line , please check out the event listings.
As always, thanks so much, each and everyone of you for you amazing continued support. You have no idea how much it means to us both, its truly motivating and we love each and everyone one of you.

Pink kisses ….Lex

The Wacky Weekend edition

I remember a while back thinking I would take a break on the weekends. But I think at this point I'm addicted to blogging. Or maybe, I'm ambitious.

You know, it's said I am a tireless self promoter.

Still #25

Yeah, while we did have significant activity yesterday (Band Equity went up 11 points which is the second largest jump in the history of our stats), We didn't move a bit in the Philadelphia Folk artist charts. We did go up 59 spots Nationally, and 99 spots in the Global rankings, but I did mention the Philadelphia Folk charts were competitive.

You know the other day two different people who's opinion I respect suggested I might be a bit obsessed with this charts thing.

Well... maybe I am.

But somebody has to be #1 on the charts, and while I wish no harm to the current holder of this position, I have to say... whom ever it is... your going down.

Stop laughing... it could happen.

Lend me your ears

Simply stated Kinagree-Smith needs your ears. We need them on the web giving our songs posted at Reverb Nation a listen.

We have a lot of plays and not a lot of people listening. This puts the metric out of whack. It looks like a few people are listing over and over again. And while that is not a bad thing, it's not as good as a lot of people listening once or twice.

You don't have to listen to every song on the play list, that will just push the plays/listener ratio further out of whack. Just pick one song and give it a listen.

Little actions have great effect, and I dream on getting to #20 by Monday.

Hey here is the link, please if you have a moment, help an obsessive old bastard to have his moment of glory. give a listen.

http://www.reverbnation.com/kinagreesmith


It's up and ready to Launch

March 16th is my third rez day and to celebrate, I'm releasing “Zorch:Outside the box”, which is the entire recorded output from my prolific career on Second Life.

It consist of 12 collections of MP3s.

A grand total of 117 individual recordings

488 Meg download

But wait there is more. A download card for two additional collections, Zorch with Dangerous Fun:Love songs, Hate songs, In between, and the Disposable Art Project Retrospect.

And the price?

Well it would be a bargain at one bazillion dollars, but I'll sell it for less.

What do you think the price should be??? Comments below.

Just a reminder, we still need your stories

I don't know if you caught yesterdays blog, but I'm looking for web cam/video cam footage of your story with Kinagree-Smith or Lexie/Zorch. If you can't give us a story, just give us a shout out on video. Thanks for your support.

Cold hard numbers and heart warming stories

Once again a slow news day for us, but you always wanna know what's shaking, what's baking with the wacky wold of Kinagree-Smith.

We are # 25... no wait... #26... oh... now #25 again

The charts were a bit goofy the other day. Somehow our position dropped in the middle of the day and that is not suppose to happen. The charts should change only at the beginning of the day.

Suffice it to say, we are BACK at #25.

Yesterday was a big day for our metric. The aggregate score for all activity is called “Band Equity”. This is the basic value of the promotional campaign. Ours went up 27 points (the average increase is about 2 or 3 points, this is our biggest jump ever), and this is due primarily to a massive increase in plays, 187 song plays in one day (once again the most song plays in a single day).

I do know the story behind this increase in song plays.

I got an Email this morning from an “Unnamed supporter”, telling me she had posted the song widget on her face book page and asked her friends to take a listen. She said she didn't know if it would work or not.

It worked... really well.

Small actions often have great effects, and we are only 24 positions away from #1.

It's all about a story

We have a very small promotional budget. Our budget is basically hard work, keeping at it, and the support of our friends. So far things are moving forward in spite of our financial shortcomings.

I'm of the opinion, our greatest promotional tool is our story. I find myself telling it time and time again. People seem interested in the story and want to know more.

One of the most interesting part of our story is the relationship we share with our listeners. The Other day I was playing a show and Teara Roux showed up. I meet Teara my second day on the grid and she's been coming to shows for over three years.

She is not alone in long standing support. There is a view in the world that online relationship are transitory and a lot of them are. But the listener/artist relationship online seems quite profound and in it's own way, quite intimate.

Kinagree-Smith, or Lexie and Zorch's story is inexorably linked to the story of people that support us.

We are currently imagining creating an online movie that tells our story, but without your participation we won't have the full story.

So once again I have a favor to ask.

If you have a web cam, or a video cam you can video files with. Please take a moment to share part of your story about Lexie and Zorch/Kinagree-Smith. Please keep it relatively short. If you want you can just give us a shout out.

I know of one fan that has our music on his MP3 player and has a habit of forcing his friends to listen to it.

I know of one woman that drives to work everyday listening to my music.

I know of one woman that spent her vacation following me around Second Life catching every show she could.

I know of one mother who shares our shows with her autistic son.

I know of a couple that had Lexie and Zorch in their hand-fastening ceremony, and inspired the song, “Mo Anam Kara”.

What is your story?

I know it's a personal thing, but if you feel comfortable sharing it, please do so. Make a video and send it to zorchboomhauer@gmail.com

We would like to get between 10 and 50 stories.

Wide awake and moving toward the top

Most of the time there is a blog when you get up in the morning. I make a point to write about the days events at the “End of business”. Yesterday business ended very abruptly. I think you've noticed how busy Lexie and I have been, and after the last show of the day, I took a nap. A really long nap. I think some people call it sleeping... not sure.

Only 24 more positions until we are #1

Today's charts show we have ascended to the #25 position on the Philadelphia Folk Artist chart. Once again the support of our small but active fan-base has moved us closer to the top. I feel I should comment, I don't see this as some profound comment on the abilities of Kinagree-Smith, but rather a reflection of the kind of support we get from our friends.

This support is inspiring, and is the main reason we work so hard in the back ground. You have placed us in a position that affords us opportunities and we are doing our best to make the most of them.

Thank you all so very much. You all RAWK.

The Listener of the week is.....

Pause for dramatic effect........... Nyx Lafever.

Not only is she the listener of the day, and the listener of the week. She has the most listens of anybody (187 plays according to Reverb Nation). Who is in second place? Kinagree-Smith. She actually makes a point to listen everyday.

Thanks Nyx.

March 16 2011, Zorch's Rez day

On the above mentioned date, I will have been performing in Second Life for three years. During that time, I've released a good deal of material. Most of you have at least one of my MP3 collections, and some of you have darn near all of them.

But I do have something special planned. It's not a big secret but on March 16th I'm going to make available the full Zorch Catalog as one download. This will include even collections that have been officially deleted from the catalog.

Now I feel I should mention, I've always had a problem managing my full catalog as a marketing venture. Just carrying vendors to shows to make this stuff available would have been a logistical nightmare, and frankly it would overwhelm anybody even considering a purchase. Let me list all the releases that have come out in the last two years and some odd months.

Get Zorched
Black and White
White and Black
Songs in the Key of Green
The Sound of Red
Mantled in a deeper shade of Blue
Show 507 LIVE
Story and Song Volume One
Shadow and Light
Ashes and Dreams
Me and My Monkey
Emotion and Reason

that is 12 releases in less then 36 months.

I'm taking a moment to wrap my mind around that. Wow.

But wait... there may be more. Somebody asked in the comments section, “What about “Love Songs, Hate Songs, In Between”. I feel I should comment only a hardcore fan would know about that collection.

The Story behind “Love Songs, Hate Songs, In Between”, is I use to be in a band called “Dangerous fun” and we released a CD “Love Songs, Hate Songs, In Between”, Shortly after the release the drummer quit, so I had a bunch of songs I couldn't really market. I did post it for sale in world as “Zorch Boomhauer with Dangerous fun” And it really didn't connect. We referred to the sound of the band as “Roots Rock country fried Soul”, and when you are playing in South Carolina, it doesn't hurt to Twang a bit.

I don't think people interested in the Zorch Catalog would want to invest the time to add this to their downloading burden. But... I'm considering placing a link in the notes for the release that people could download it from for free. I'm also considering adding a “Disposable Art Project” retrospective as an optional link.

Today is the 10th of March, only six days to release date. I'm not planning a release party, or a rez party. I better get cracking.

The one commenter on this also mentioned they didn't care for the name. “The full Magilla”. So the new working title is, “Zorch:Outside the box (A box collection without a box)”.

Single collections will still be available for download at the web site, and I frankly don't know how many people would be interested in such a collection. But it needs to be available, this is the final chapter of the Zorch Recording Legacy.

Kind of a slow news day

Only 26 slots away from #1 on the charts, Widget-Palooza is unleashed, The great Cherry Hill mining disaster and Icon magazine is out

Well this is what passes for a slow news day around here.

Still # 27 on the Philadelphia Folk artist charts !!!!

Yes we are hanging tough thanks to your amazing support. While some might see this as a stall, I see it as a dramatic pause. I'm sure we'll be top 10 tomorrow morning.

Kinagree-Smith street team activate... form... WIDGET-PALOOZA

Reverb Nation does have a “Street team” feature and we've had people already volunteer to be part of our guerrilla marketing team. Street teams get Mission, and the person that is most successful carrying out this mission wins a prize.

The Mission: Widget-Palooza

Simply copy and past the code for one of our widgets on any web page, blog, forum post signature, or any of the many Social networks that support one click sharing.

It's simple and with a little creativity you can really shine.

For those of you computer savvy, any place you can put HTML code, you can embed a widget. Hell even on your emails to friends... and people you don't even like.

The prize: The T-shirt of your choice from the Kinagree-Smith Reverb Nation online store.

It's easy, fun and somebody has to win. It could be you.

I've been to Cherry Hill New Jersey and lived to tell the tale

A good friend of Lexie's, Chuck Darrow invited us to come play a few songs at a show he was doing. It was at a bar called “Dublin Square” and the place was MOBBED. It was not only crowded but noisy as heck. I don't mean the band, I mean the crowd. Ear splitting noisy. You really could not hear the musicians unless you were standing less then ten feet away.

Chuck was playing bass in two different acts. One was a pop cover band, and the other was his long standing duo called Nitrous (well actually Nytrous, with the Kewl spelling). The pop band was very poppy, and while Lexie's been exposed to Nytrous for years, this was my first time. They had cool energy... and I say that because I could not really hear them... but I could indeed feel them.

When Lexie and I got up to play I said “Okay everybody shut up we are going to play now”. Hey, sometimes you just gotta ask. We played two songs and blew the slightly less noisy crowd away.

We didn't get any video of the show. We did bring the camera, but it was as dark as the inside of a cat in there, so not very conducive to shooting videos.

Icon Magazine is out with a story about our Cartoon Alter egos

Yeah it's buried way in the back, and they don't even mention the story on the cover (gotta be an oversight). But our interview in Icon Magazine is out.

We've sent copies to all our respective groups, and if you don't belong to one of them.... what is wrong with you? I'm sure you can find Icon Magazine somewhere in world, so grab a copy and learn all about Lexie and Zorch.

Learn my children. Learn like the wind.

All and all a fun night, and a good end to a slow news day.

Slow for us at least.