The man behind the Album-a-Month Project - Sean Wright - has released his second album SHATTER, and deliver album #3 EYE IN THE SKY to CD manufacturers.
Sean Wright considers this to be a landmark in his remarkable music project. "I'm quarter of the way there," he said. "People have really got behind the idea - a kind of music marathon if there was one! Somedays I wake up to write and record the next song in the project and think: will I do a Forrest Gump, and just keep running with it beyond a year? It gets you that way. I'm addicted to writing music."
And it seems that Wright's growing legion of fans are adicted to his music, too. "I've been stunned by the positive response to my music. Beyond the gimmick of the album-a-month project, fans really like the songs. They keep coming back to listen and download on myspace, with over 15,000 plays a month."
Wright's music has also garnered the support of some major names in the music business. Clues to the identities of these illuminaries is evident in his Top Friends on myspace.
UK's Wright began planning the project by embarking on a decidedly outside-the-
Each Sean Wright album contains 12 tracks - that's 12x12. 144 tracks in a year. The first album called TIDALWAVE was released 30 April 2007. SHATTER followed at the end of May 2007. Album #3 EYE IN THE SKY will be released at the end of June 2007.
“It sounds mad, doesn’t it?” Wright said. “While putting out an album every month is an awful idea if you try to release and promote records the old-fashioned way -- coordinating and organising retail distribution, publicity, and radio promotion behind something that lands everywhere all at once – it certainly gives people something to talk about. I haven't had to spend time or effort promoting the songs. I've spent all my time writing and recording, and the way I’ve structured the releases alone has made people notice. An album-a-month has a nice ring to it, doesn‘t it? That and the fact that I give away mp3s of new songs every month on myspace.”
Wright is a singer/songwriter who first made his name at Peer-Southern Music publishing house, Denmark St, London, co-writing songs with Hollywood hitmaker, Kim Fowley. He released his debut 45 single "Strange Situation" in 1978 to critical acclaim in the UK press. The NME said, "Wright is an enigmatic purveyor of powerful pop." Wright's 1980s band, International Heroes, is credited in the Encyclopaedia of British Heavy Metal as forerunner of the Powerpop movement. He co-managed the hugely-popular all-girl Swedish band, Ice Age, voted Best Female Group in the World 1989/1990 by Kerrang! magazine readers. He co-produced and directed their MTV video "Instant Justice" and co-ordinated their sell-out European tour, in which the band sold out London's Marquee Club, The Hippodrome, and the Astoria.
He's a three time British Fantasy Award finalist for excellence in fantasy/horror/
