Natty’s Pledge via Music

Natty I believe is a modern day mirror of Marley, with a contemporay edge. He burst onto the scene about two years ago with the hit “July”, but since his debut album “Man Like I”, of which “Bedroom Eyes” has to be my fave track, things have been a bit quiet.

Which usually means new projects! When I saw that he was touring material for a new acoustic EP, and that he was re-visiting The Glee in Birmingham, I just had to go! My third Natty gig then was stripped back and very intimate, he introduced new songs and told us what the deal was with the EP, hence the blog post about this great idea!

Natty – Bedroom Eyes

 

Pledge Music
Through pledgemusic.com he’s selling the EP as it is being created, which is just about as far away from a traditional business model as you can get, but he’s also raising funds for chairty at the same time. How amazing is that! In this case The Sarcoma Research Fund. It’s like pre-ordering even though the product isn’t yet finished, in essense the fans become investors in the production and recording of the EP as well as doing something for a charity that means something to the artist!

In essense the fans become investors in the production and recording of the EP as well as doing something for a charity that means something to the artist! A very different way of moving through the music industry!

The “Things I’ve Done Ep” of which we got to hear songs from, live, then sounds really good. It’s a slight departure from Man Like I, there’s a different vibe as Natty puts it but there is still the Reggae aspect heavily at work in the songs. The new song “Street Lights” raises an interesting question for us social media types; If Internet connections were ripped up, would we still be able to meet up and chat, would we want to go out into the streets at night if all the street lights were turned off? Are we really connected or are we just crossing paths only on a digital basis? I thought about that a lot as I returned home by train, quite often we could and do get by offline, but are we too invested in our bubbles? Lyrically he is a genius, the gig itself was very intimate and towards the end everyone was feeling the love and myself, well I just danced like nobody was watching.

Click the following badge to get through to his pledge site and listen to a snippet of Street Lights

Posted on Friday, May 21st, 2010