The Haiti Projekt - now available!!

[ich_bin_besser]

Almost 4 hours of music, for 20 $. Flac or 320 kbps mp3. PayPal needed.

More info and sound clips on the homepage: http://www.thehaitiprojekt.com/

Welcome to the home for the Progressive Rock community's charity CD "The Haiti Projekt". This is our effort to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster this January 2010. With a death toll estimated to be more than 200,000 with over 300,000 injured and millions without homes, food, or water, the need for humanitarian help is immense. The Haiti Projekt is a compilation of 40 songs donated by famous and not-so-famous prog bands from around the globe.  The list includes prog luminaries such as Neal Morse (Neal Morse, Spocks Beard), IZZ, Roine Stolt (Agents of Mercy, Transatlantic, Flower Kings), Randy George (Ajalon), Dave Meros (Dave Meros, Spocks Beard), and a special appearance by Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Planet X) on the Relocator tune.

This effort is being spearheaded by the co-producer of The Tsunami Projekt and bassist in the instrumental prog metal group Asymmetry, Brian Cobb. In 2005, Brian and Barry Thompson produced a compilation CD that sold over 700 copies and raised over $10,000 for the victims of the Indonesian tsunami disaster. All proceeds were donated to the Red Cross. The same applies to The Haiti Projekt. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross in support of their humanitarian efforts in Haiti.

Tracklist (in alphabetical order):

1 Agents of Mercy - The Fading Ghosts of Twilight (unreleased remix)
2 Ajalon - Footprints Footsteps
3 Andy Tillison - The Spirit of the Net
4 Arkei - Fleeting Moments
5 Arthur Pinchev - Come Fly
6 Asymmetry - Descent
7 Collin Leijenaar - Mystery
8 Dave Meros - Remembrance
9 Dead Heroes Club - The Sleepers are Waking
10 Edensong - Lorelai
11 Ephemeral Sun - Springsong
12 Every Other Ones - Same Old
13 Every Waking Hour - Conspiracy of Silence
14 Factory of Dreams - Reset World
15 Guitar Garden - Cataclysm: Earth to Urth
16 IZZ - Ready to Go
17 Little Atlas - Can I Find It (Live)
18 Mahtrak - Oraculo (Live)
19 Mars Hollow - Midnight
20 Michael Gill - Sunset
21 Mooning - Watches
22 Neal Morse - Sing It High (Live)
23 Peter Matuchniak - Running Blind
24 Pindral - Avalanche
25 Pinnacle - Timberline (unreleased 2010 version)
26 Projection - Inside
27 Relocator - Relocator
28 Roland Enders & Friends - Dreams and Nightmares
29 Shadow Circus - Willoughby
30 Singularity - XOT (Live)
31 Sonus Umbra - March of Folly
32 Soul Secret - Inner War
33 Steve Brockmann - For You
34 Supernal Endgame - You Never Change
35 Tadashi Goto - Inner Peace
36 The Healing Road - Ten Days in March
37 The Mandrake Project - A Miraculous Container
38 The Other Side - Crying World
39 The Sea Turtles - Rollin' 13
40 To-Mera - Another World

[ich_bin_besser]

Dang, no one??  :shock:
There's a lot of cool stuff to discover! Low price, great music, good cause - what more do you want?  8-)

[Kyo]

To be honest I think you could've picked a more exciting subject header. It implies that people already know about The Haiti Projekt and have been waiting for it while not mentioning what may be the biggest draw (the many popular artists who have contributed).

But anyway, I bought this compilation and have discovered several very cool bands that way: Shadow Circus, Supernal Endgame, To-Mera (and by extension Haken), Ephemeral Sun... And if I hadn't known them before, I'd be checking out Mars Hollow and The Healing Road now, too! There is a lot of seriously impressive stuff here.

And I'm not just saying that because my band contributed a track as well.  

[Pedro]

Welcome aboard, Kyo.

[rogerg]

welcome, Kyo!

[Mouse]

Hello there!  

I don't know why there hasn't been more fuss over this release. This was the first I'd heard of it...

[gav]

'ello Kyo!  
have a biscuit

[Kyo]

Hi everyone,

thanks for the welcome (and the biscuit).  

I guess an introduction is in order, but I'd rather not steer this thread off topic - I'll post something in the Friends of Frost forum instead.

Mouse, I don't know why this hasn't generated more media coverage yet, either.
But I'm trying my best to spread the word in various forums just like Jürgen here.

There's a lot of very cool music here for a very low price (for us Europeans it's
less than the cost of a new CD - and you get over FOUR HOURS of music!) and
you get a nice mix of more popular artists and some obscure ones that maybe
you've been meaning to check out for a while but haven't gotten around to yet.  

[Kyo]

We've reached $2000.

Did anyone here get this? What are your favorite tracks?

[Kyo]

Time for an update:

The Haiti Projekt reports the earnings through Aug 10...

Hello everyone. I wanted to let everyone know that I sent The Haiti Projekt money to the American Red Cross today. The totals are as follows and are current through this moment (Aug 10, 2010):

134 copies sold
$2,680.00 gross intake
$130.72 in PayPal fees
$2,549.28 net intake

I wrote the Red Cross a $2,600.00 check. Once I have a confirmation for the donation, I'll post a scan (for The Tsunami Projekt, they sent us a nice letter of thanks...).

Thanks to those who bought a copy. For those of you who have not, it is still available at http://www.thehaitiprojekt.com

Brian

[rogerg]

well done, Kyo!! and congratulations!!

[ich_bin_besser]

Roger, you gotta thank Brian. Kyo "just" had a song on the sampler.

I was hoping for more than 134 copies...  

[rogerg]

Roger, you gotta thank Brian. Kyo "just" had a song on the sampler.

I was hoping for more than 134 copies...  

well, thanks and congrats, Brian!!