An independent musian has made it onto the shortlist for this years' UK Mercury Prize.
From the UK Guardian this is a story about Zoe Rahman - a pianist with no agent, no manager and no record company getting on the prestgious Mercury prize shortlist.
Read on here.
[Resource http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1836221,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6]
Here's what they say (below) about the Mercury prize from: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Music_Prize#2001]
The Mercury Music Prize is seen as something of a controversial event in the UK. The award can in no sense be seen as representative of prevailing trends in popular music, as the winning album is selected from the shortlist by an extremely small panel of individuals from within the music industry.
Also, the artists selected for the shortlist have in the past been prevailingly from major record labels, which has irked many independent record label owners and artists. The exclusion of independent artistes has purportedly been on the grounds of lack of sales, however the same might be said of many of the major label artists who have made the shortlist. A notorious example of this was Helicopter Girl, whose 2000 album How To Steal The World reportedly sold fewer than 1,000 copies.
For the official spin BBC, have a look at the bbc.co.uk
[Resource http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1836221,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=6]
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