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Here is some other new track, i woke up and decided that i had to add some extra part to this song, and it worked well. 

Quite excited with the sound that producer got with this track today..thanks Geoff

I was talking to an analyst for a magazine in the US for the economy and finance. He mentioned that the next thing to go wrong, is that long term interest rates, that is the 10 year bond rates, will go from 3 percent to 10. The reason why the government is tuned into this idea, is that the government is responsible for the debt. This means in effect with a higher rate of return, that the debt is worth more, as it has less value because of the inflation. This will also mean that the economies don’t fail, like they did in the great depression, yet the world will be on the brink of something like the great depression for a long time. Or at least the western economies would be. Business’s that are locked up in debt are not going to be able to function.

In the studio i made some new song.

Its been an age since i wrote anything here, not sure why, its not that i don’t want to write anything, its more that i’m just not in the habit. Lately i’ve been spending time in the hacker space www.brmlab.cz , i started a project to scan objects, have 4 kinect scanners, also, have an idea to create some public screen, so people could send pictures with GPS location to the screen. just thought to write at least something here.

the x- president Vaclav Havel has died, 75. He was interesting political figure, i watched a clip on youtube where he said it was as if he fell of a bridge into the job, also saying he’s neither left or right. more artist than politician. its quite hard times for Czech’s with this, at the moment Vaclav Klaus is president, he is a conservative politician and not much liked.

I noticed that the price of organic nuts has gone up more than 20 percent in the supermarket in the last month. The amount of crowns that i get for one US dollar has been fluctuating a lot lately, from around 12, to now 19 within a six month time frame for one US dollar. This is ok for the big business’s as they can carry a lot of stock, and are able to use derivatives to protect a supply price. Yet smaller shops, are going to find these fluctuations difficult, and in the end are going to be less competitive. I think after the x-mass time, prices are really going to rise. Inflation is going to hit hard here.

out of copyright image found un-known author glass negative, a photo by jamtea on Flickr.

A while back i complained to privacy about APRA rights organisation for music artists in Australia for giving an email i wrote them 10 years ago to EMI music publishing. EMI music publishing then provided the mail to another company in the US, who then provided the mail to ASCAP, as evidence of a co-write. Yet i never co-wrote any song, with any artist, nor signed any document to say i did.

Anyway, privacy Australia got back to me a year latter, to let me know that it was legal for that email to be used against me, as a non-member. The thing i wonder now is, if i have made APRA aware that i don’t want my information used that way, can they continue to use the information as they have. The decision of privacy Australia means that some of my tittles will remain under control of EMI music publishing from EMI’s point of veiw, producers are claiming they had a hand in writting the songs. Its a silly situation, its like the plumbers of your home telling you who can use your toilet.

Copyright laws are totally dis-functional in a world with the net and a computer, changes in technology make the publishing and recording industries re-dundent. For sure artist’s need to be advised of the potential dangers/consequences of assigning their rights to an exclusive contract. Especially with such co-ruption in the way the exclusive rights of an artist not with a publisher are managed.

The actual email is not really of any consequence, as APRA don’t issue rights to copyright. Although the chairman of the board of APRA, who is also the head of EMI music publishing is braking laws to make my situation difficult.

paris pool, a photo by jamtea on Flickr.

I was at the hacker space in Prague, htttp://www.brmlad.cz and met Amir Taaki, he’s formed this new form of currency with a bunch of tec heads. The idea is brilliant, it creates the means of an un-controlled decentralized form of transferring funds from one person to another. Right now, even in its early stage, it allows the possibility to transfer funds from one country to another with-out the banks taking such a big cut. Within a couple of years, i reckon more and more people are going to be using this currency.

out of copyright image found un-known author glass negative, a photo by jamtea on Flickr.

last night i played music in Mohlinice, small town quite close to Olomouc, played at the tea house, its on the town square. This is the first show of a tour I do around Czech, in the next month i’ll play tunes in arond15-20 different spaces around Czech, mostly tea houses. I’m gonna try and write something about each town/place i do a show.

Mohlinice is quite small, most of the people here work for two German companies that manufacture motor parts. Town was a little down beat though, yet maybe it was just the weather was that way today, the train arrived when it was dark last night. Was worried i would not be able to find the tea house, yet it was easy. Mostly pubs, and panel buildings painted in oranges, pinks and yellows.

Jamison Young when using attribute Eric Balaire, a photo by jamtea on Flickr.

While in Prague in the same day i bumped into Eric Balaire a couple of times. I showed him around the building where i have some storage space, and he took some pics. Now i’m using some of them for promotion. Eric works as a photographic assistant in LA, and has been tripping around Europe the last couple of months, spending most of his time in Hungary. Thanks for the images, hope travels are going good.

from a czech train a photo by jamtea on Flickr.

lately i was thinking about the system here in Czech as often it gets a little on my nerves, with each bureaucratic process, all the needed information, I’m kind of used to it though. My conclusion is that a lot of it left over stuff from communism, the system treats the person providing the service as being guilty and the person using the service as being guilty, so its upto the person providing the service and the user of the service to prove otherwise, in each transaction. well it often seems that way.