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Fading Ways Music is very happy to announce the release of Share Volume 7!

The Share series has seen great success amidst our street teams of fans, who are very enthusiastic about the fact that our label is legally allowing them, via the use of a NonCommercial Creative Commons license, to freely share the music on and off-line without fear of lawsuit repercussions.

In case you are not yet familiar with Creative Commons, what a CC license does (there are several different ones) is fill in the gaps of intent between full copyright and the public domain, allowing the public certain uses. As you are no doubt aware, European copyright law has taken a turn for the stricter following WIPO's WCT treaty, modelled after the USA's Digital Millenium Copyright Act and resulting in the EU's IP Enforcement Directive now in force. As a result, without express written permission (from labels and publishers) fans can no longer copy music for one another, which hurts the independent artists in a big way as we try and get our music heard. In Canada, since the WIPO WCT has not yet been ratified, the public can still burn music onto CDRs as well as legally download music - this is why Canada must NOT ratify the treaty. Somebody stop the Harper fascists like we stopped the Liberals before them (Hi Sam!).

Creative Commons empowers the artist to take back their copyrights into their own hands by allowing them, their small labels and publishers to make public allowances and tell people that it is ok to copy the music for promotional purposes. This includes person to person offline, or p2p online. Since we use the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, non-commercial remixes are also allowed, however, they cannot be sold and have to be issued under the same license.
Essentially, what Fading Ways artists are telling the public, and have been doing since 2004 with the release of the world's very first CC-licensed physical product CD, Red Orkestra's "After the Wars") is that no one will sue the fans for copying those songs that are licensed under Creative Commons.

And so, without further ado, we unveil (COMING IN FEB! -  watch this space for free downloads) Share Vol. 7:

1. The Singles - Hypnotized (from the album "Start Again ")
2. Turku Romantic Movement - The Pigs (of Gadara) (from the album Noise & Confusion )
3. Red Orkestra - Red Stars (from the Enola EP)
4. Neil Leyton - Intoxicate Me (unreleased demo for the upcoming Elite Nylon album)
5. Aceface - Enough (from the upcoming self-titled EP)
6. Jim Clements - The Bottom Feeders (from the album When the Saints Go )

Toronto's premier mod-rockers have delivered their long-awaited third release through Fading Ways Canada.

The self-titled EP features six tracks of brand new material. Once again, front man Carl Nanders joins the rest of this quintet, pairing some new influences with his love of mod-soul and Brit-pop. The result is music that belongs somewhere between the Who and Pet Sounds in your cd collection. If saccharine pop is your thing, keep moving - you won't find it here. Aceface careens from fury to lechery to revolutionary fervour with uncanny ease. And they're bringing us all along for the ride.

Here's what other people have said about the band:

'Their sound is a mix of '60s R&B and earlier Brit rock along the lines of The Who and Bowie with a wash of new wave synth stringing it together.' Doug Hamelin, XPress

'Nanders and his organ-boogie rock symphony don't shy away from some thick and catchy music to complement the intelligent lyrical material…this tambourine-jiggling throwback is a readathon with a very welcome ass-shaking twistathon.' Brian Wong, Chart Attack

Aceface will celebrate the release with a gig at Toronto's Neutral Lounge on Saturday, February 23. Come for the kick-ass rock, stay for the fantastic dj-ing.

Aceface is:

(photo by Elizabeth Martin)
Carl Nanders
Freek Siezenga
Gregary Lyons
Matthew Leaker
Mike Anderson