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Jai Paul
Jai Paul is back after a 7 year absence with 2 songs which I love! I must admit to not knowing very much about the elusive artist but it seems he was betrayed by the music industry when unfinished songs were leaked to the public. It's so awful and clearly affected him as you can read for yourself below.
The outcome was good and bad, two people were arrested and charged but not until they had profited financially from the release on Bandcamp and a lot of damage was done! However all the profit was eventually seized with refunds paid by those concerned to those concerned. The songs were eventually released officially. Listen below. We Like Jai Paul - Fran x
The outcome was good and bad, two people were arrested and charged but not until they had profited financially from the release on Bandcamp and a lot of damage was done! However all the profit was eventually seized with refunds paid by those concerned to those concerned. The songs were eventually released officially. Listen below. We Like Jai Paul - Fran x
"I understand that it might have seemed like a positive thing to a lot of people – the music they had been waiting to hear was finally out there – but for me, it was very difficult to deal with. As things unfolded I went through a number of phases, but the immediate, overriding feeling was one of complete shock. I felt numb, I couldn’t take it all in at first. I felt pretty alone with everything, like no-one else seemed to view the situation in the same way I did: as a catastrophe. There was a lot going through my mind, but the hardest thing to grasp was that I’d been denied the opportunity to finish my work and share it in its best possible form. I believe it’s important for artists as creators to have some control over the way in which their work is presented, at a time that they consider it complete and ready.
I was also frustrated by how all this was being framed online, leading to the widespread belief that I had decided to leak my own music, despite my record label and I saying otherwise. It didn’t fit at all with anything I had done previously in style or attitude, and especially not in presentation. To make matters worse I was advised at the time to keep quiet and leave things ambiguous, but this didn’t really fit with my vibe and there was disagreement among us. I soon felt unable to engage with it at all."
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Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Jai Paul Vocals, drums, synthesizers, electric guitars, triangle, programming and SFX by Jai Paul Additional engineering and mix by Lexxx Additional engineering by Duncan Fuller Mastered by Mike Bozzi at Bernie Grundman Mastering Recorded at The Hollow Earth, London, England, and The Barn, Sussex, England.
Jai Paul has been busy working on an amazing website
Jai-Pau.com
but what initially caught my attention is
Paul Institute
which from what I can gather aims to help other musicians
who need help! We're down with that all the way :
"giving is the new taking"
Fran x
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