Latest song giveaway is Life or Dessert?
*05/13/12 - With only a few copies of the album LIFE OR DESSERT? still available, we thought it would be cool to give away the title track. All you need to do to get it is to drop your name (or username if you prefer to be clandestine) + email in the form, above and in the center of this page...
 Life or Dessert? almost out-of-print
*03/03/12 -
As strange as it may seem, our 1st album, LIFE OR DESSERT? is about to go out-of-print.
There seem to be a couple of copies at the warehouse and possibly at a few stores. But Amazon has been sold out for months and there are only a couple of copies left at CDBaby. If you've been holding out and still want a physical CD - with the cool black-and-white fold-out poster, all the lyrics, and the rest of the artwork - I wouldn't wait any longer.
The good news is, of course, you can still download the album at CDBaby, iTunes, Amazon. You just miss out on the artwork, which we think is pretty cool. Going, going...
Interference on Jango radio
*01/22/12 - Our nearly 9 minute piece "Interference" may not be a typical selection on radio (web or otherwise), but it is currently in rotation on Jango internet radio.
Also, the holiday compilation featuring our song "Wait" is still available through January 31st as a free download, so if you haven't grabbed it yet be sure to do so in the next few days.
We're having interesting times in the studio these days with our downed Pro Tools rig and our substitute laptop recording setup. We won't try to summarize here, but you can keep up on all the hijinks over on our twitter page, or just come back here and check the Twitter update widget at the top of the page.
Happy New Year from Gravity Tree
*01/02/12 - We hope everyone is having a great start to the year. We have a lot of new music in the works and our hope for the new year is to bring as much of it to you as possible. Be sure to check to check back often, or even better, get on our friends and fans list to find out first and get free music all year long! Until then, all the best with your new resolutions.
Free holiday album features Gravity Tree
*12/03/11 - New music is in the works from Gravity Tree, but...
...While you're waiting, you can reward yourself with a FREE holiday music album download from Melodic Revolution Records.
"The Spirit of December" is a new compilation album, and features music from a wide variety of progressive artists, including Gravity Tree. In the spirit of the season of giving, it is offered as a free download, and the link is delivered to your email address, so you won't lose it in case you have a download problem.
Here's the short link:
http://bit.ly/ryBlNE
Last Chance for Wait
*11/08/11 - If you haven't grabbed the free song Wait yet, be sure to do so soon. Another song will be rotating in as the freebie for signing up for the Gravity Tree newsletter, so you don't want to miss out having Wait.
(Use the link below, or just add your email address in the form above.)
signup.gravitytree.com
Our new "Conversing with the Dead" themed T-shirts have two designs: There's one matching the artwork to the hi-res release of Conversing with the Dead, and also a more '50's sci-fi design (see image).
http://bit.ly/osWpeL
Stayed tuned for new music...
Hi-Res Song now available
*10/06/11 - A Special Edition of our song Conversing with the Dead is now available.
The newly remastered song is available as a higher resolution download in several formats including FLAC, AAC, and even Ogg Vorbis. Depending on your format choice, you can enjoy the song at up to 24bit / 48k, or just get a better-than-online-music-shop fidelity MP3 at 320bps.
This is our first offering of a song at a quality similar to what you'd hear if we had you over to our studio, and queued up our master for you.
http://gravitytree.bandcamp.com
Conversing with the Dead Spawns T-Shirts
*09/21/11 - Two new T-shirt designs are now available, inspired by our song Conversing with the Dead.
There are 2 T-Shirt designs, and the first comes in three colors, so you can pick which one suits you best - or just get them all ;-).
You can find them both in our ReverbNation store. (We're just getting the store up and running, so look for more music to be added.)
You can also download the song the designs were based upon at the store, at this link
Originally appearing on our album Ultimate Backward, Conversing with the Dead is a punk-flavored progressive piece of noise that - if you haven't heard yet - might be of interest.
Be sure to check out the song and the new T-Shirts at our new store.
Wait...for free
*06/02/11 - We're offering one of our more popular progressive rock pieces for free.
The song is Wait, an instrumental from the album "Ultimate Backward".
Just sign up at this link to get it (and our latest updates):
http://signup.gravitytree.com
Cancel anytime and keep the song. Stay with us, get more free music, updates and goodies. Your choice.
Others have compared our sound to King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Rush, Glass Hammer, Procol Harum, and the Flower Kings. Does that sound as messed up to you as it does to us? Draw your own conclusions, with a free song.
btw Wait won't stay free forever, so if you're interested, grab it soon.
http://signup.gravitytree.com
Last Week for Falling in 3s
*05/09/11 - This is the last week you'll be able to get our song Falling in 3s for free.
If you don't know about this, when you sign up for our newsletter and updates, you get a free song.
We don't send out updates very often, but if you decide to unsubscribe, we'll understand. And you get to keep the free music. Such a deal.
Use this link or just enter your email in the box near the top of this page...
http://signup.gravitytree.com
For the last several weeks, the song has been Falling in 3s, from our album Life or Dessert?. But that's going to change next weekend.
If you want to be a bit sneaky (and that's fine with us), you can sign up now, get Falling in 3s for free this week, then score the next song next week when it becomes available (if you don't get a new link, just write us from the email you signed up with, and we'll make sure you get it).
http://signup.gravitytree.com
We also want to thank all our new fans who've signed up already this year, and of course those who have been with us for the long haul. We have some special things coming your way too.
Thanks for listening.
Gravity Tree
March Update, Music Player
*03/05/11 - We've been slow posting anything this year; no blogging, fewer Tweets, no real Facebook time. It has taken awhile - longer than expected, due to some 'life events', shall we say - to get new music out. We don't want to bore you with details - everyone's struggling with something these days, whether it be the recession or some other hardship. (We don't want to be cryptic either, so if you're truly interested, just email us and we'll tell you what's up.) In any event, Gravity Tree will be back at it shortly. While you're waiting, here's a sampling of our progressive rock noise, in a new player. Talk to you soon...
 
Aim to Please on AiiRadio.net
*12/28/10 - Beginning this week, you'll be able to hear Aim to Please by tuning in to web radio www.aiiradio.net.
Aiiradio is a web site/station that serves up a lot of tasty independent progressive music (as well as a bit of comedy). We've been giving it a listen of late and liked what we heard, so we were pretty excited when they approached us to put our songs in rotation.
Aim to Please is the first song of ours to be featured on aiiradio.net, but we're sure it won't be the last, and we hope to have more songs from Ultimate Backward included in their prog rock programming. They also have a chatroom and forums, as well as the live streaming. Make sure you tune in and check out all the cool prog rock tuneage...head over to their site for all the details.
Wait, Remastered, Available as FLAC, MP3, AAC, more
*11/28/10 -
It is the holiday season once again! With Black Friday behind us, and Cyber Monday (plus who knows how many other 'sales events') at hand, you are most likely picking and pondering over presents. Perhaps you are wrestling over what to get that picky music listener who may already own the entire King Crimson, Yes and/or Flower Kings catalogs. We have a couple of ideas...
Melodic Revolution Records has released Vol.2 of A Progressive Christmas, which features some great, modern prog bands, and even a little Vivaldi. We encourage you to check it out.
Also of note to our fans, the Gravity Tree Ultimate Backward instrumental "Wait", which was featured on the original Melodic Revolution Records release, "A Very Progressive Christmas, Vol.1", is available again this year. Our song was carefully remastered especially for this holiday album. Here's a direct link to the new "Wait" page:
http://bit.ly/eaAKSP
You can listen to the song full-length, as well as all the songs from both volumes, at Melodic Revolution Records' web pages.
You will find "Wait" available in several download formats (your choice at download), including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, and FLAC. For the audiophiles in our ranks, this FLAC file is about as close to our original master as anything we've heard so far in a compressed format file.
Be sure to check out this and all the music at Melodic Revolution Records, and support new progressive music this season..
http://bit.ly/eaAKSP
Thanks for listening, and happy holidays!
Rhapsody, and Why You Haven't Heard Our Latest Songs
*11/09/10 - We're happy to announce that after a long delay in posting, followed by technical issues, "Building" is now ready to play and download on Rhapsody! Here's the short link:
http://bit.ly/dmMvZX
Thanks to CDBaby for help with this issue, and to Rhapsody for resolving it on their end in timely fashion.
We should tell you that this and other events had caused us to delay any further music releases. We know some of you have been waiting awhile, and we wanted you to know what has been going on to cause this delay.
We have been concerned about releasing more downloads for a myriad of reasons, and several things led to the delay: Tech issues at Rhapsody and other sites; the 'new' and possibly unstable overhauls going on with sites like MySpace and others; and some recent issues with distribution. (It didn't help that Alan injured himself, causing him to stay off the drums for a number of weeks. Getting back up to speed took a little longer than expected - there is no excuse for sloppy drum tracks!)
Bottom line: It's no good for us to tell you new music is out, and then discover it isn't working right, or isn't available as promised. Our confidence that we had a working pipeline to all our listeners was low. So rather than frustrate you, we put on the brakes, and decided to work on what we could fix, and wait on what we couldn't.
But that's behind us. We're encouraged that things are moving forward with stores and our distributors, and feel better about releasing new music soon. We'll be focusing on getting the songs (and some new merch) out to you in the near future, and our fans and friends who get our newsletter will get a heads-up in advance, and early access before everyone else.
3 Songs on Jango Internet Music
*11/08/10 - A quick message about FREE music:
A third Gravity Tree song has been added to the track list on Jango internet radio .
http://bit.ly/bkeHqo
When you 'tune in' (it's free), you can hear the song "Wait", in addition to "Aim to Please" and the latest G.T. song, "Building".
"Wait" was originally released on the album Ultimate Backward .
Last year a newly remastered version of "Wait" appeared on the special holiday compilation album, "A Very Progressive Christmas, Vol. 1" from Melodic Revolution Records. (Now that the holidays are - unbelievably - about to roll around again, you can grab the album or single download(s) from Mindawn.)
But you don't need to buy a thing: just head over to Jango, and listen to "Wait" and 2 other Gravity Tree songs...for free.
http://bit.ly/bkeHqo
One more bit of news: the 1st new T-Shirt design is at the printers! We'll let you know as soon as it's available. Until next time...
Gravity Tree Store at Amazon here, Amie Street gone
*09/22/10 - As some of you have probably realized, our links to our pages at Amie Street Music (amiestreet.com) now lead to Amazon.com. Amie Street was recently acquired by Amazon, and the changeover took place this morning (09/22). We are in the process of changing our links and removing the Amie Street banners and players from our sites.
You can always find our music at the Gravity Tree Store at Amazon, at these links:
http://bit.ly/3eWgLB
OR
http://amzn.to/gravitytreesongs
Plus, our latest song download is here:
http://amzn.to/buildingatamazon
This was of course out of our control, but we know it's a bit confusing. We apologize, and thank you again for listening.
BTW, you can find more places to get our songs at our links page on this site.
Forget the FAQ, Just Ask the Band
*08/23/10 - Do you have a band-related question for Gravity Tree? We have a new way for you to ask us.
On the newsletter sign-up mini-site, there's a new page for fan questions. Just type in whatever you've been wondering about concerning Gravity Tree and the music, and give us an email address (so we can reply). Just go to:
http://bit.ly/asktheband
You can also score some free music: Just sign up for our new improved newsletter ( showing up in your inbox about once or twice a month average), and you'll get news about releases and other events before anyone else, plus other fan-exclusive content.
You don't have to sign up when you send us a question, but you'll miss out on the free music. Plus, it's a sneaky way to get our email address, so you can just bypass the formalities and talk to us anytime.
So when you send us your question and sign up, you get a free song and a newsletter, along with your answer, directly from one of us. Not a bad rate of return these days.
(btw, if you already get our old N1M text-based newsletter, you might consider signing up for the new one, just so we can give you free stuff! Just drop us a note and we'll make sure you're on the new list.)
Zune has Gravity Tree - Ultimate Backward, Life or Dessert, Building
*07/27/10 - Zune is now carrying Gravity Tree music, including the latest song, "Building". We have a shortened url for them here:
http://bit.ly/zunegt
Or, just type Gravity Tree in the search box at:
http://www.zune.net
They now have all 23 songs we've released online. (Get more details in the latest fan newsletter.)
A Simple iTunes link
*07/13/10 -
We recently discovered a cool iTunes feature and had to share.
We're not sure how long this has been working, but it's definitely a more recent development: iTunes now lets you type the standard form url into your browser (like you'd expected all along).
You used to have to use the link making tool on the Apple site, but no longer. Now, to get to Gravity Tree , just add a "/" and "gravitytree" to the standard "itunes.com" and it'll send you to all our music there.
http://www.itunes.com/gravitytree
eMusic prog single
*06/29/10 - Our prog rock web single BUILDING has made it to popular music site, eMusic:
http://bit.ly/emusicbuilding
This marks the first of our catalog to make it onto this site. It is our hope that we can work through the details with our distributor to get everything else over there. 
Our prog rock at ReverbNation
*06/17/10 - We recently updated our pages at ReverbNation with a new layout and more songs (including some full-length streams). They're also offering some cool widgets and banners you can grab and use on your Facebook, MySpace, or other web page, to help us spread our music around...hint, hint.
iLike and Last.fm have BUILDING
*06/02/10 - You can now 'like' our latest song, "BUILDING", on iLike (or any site that has a 'Like' button - we appreciate any likes you give us!). BUILDING, along with many other Gravity Tree songs, can be heard at this link: http://bit.ly/ilikeBuilding.
You can also find our music at last.fm, including the latest song.
 
There is also a music app for iLike on Facebook, so our music is there through iLike; and a few tunes are in our Facebook music player box. We expect even more sites to have BUILDING soon.
iTunes, Napster, Amazon have BUILDING
*05/17/10 - Last week we had news about our latest song - BUILDING - at CDBaby. This week, the newest prog song in our catalog is also at iTunes, Amazon, and Napster. BUILDING is still available at Boost and our webstore. We expect several other online shops to add it soon.
You can also license BUILDING for film, TV and other media through our SongPlacements site page; email Brett at members@songplacements.com, or call (323) 988-3446.
www.songplacements.com/gravitytree
*05/03/10 - Anyone check out the new Beta version of Napster? For the most part, we like the new layout, especially the darker color scheme (for those who care ;-o). btw they actually pay artists for downloads now - it's completely legit these days.
http://bit.ly/napsterprogrock
Anyway, you can find most of our music there. We say 'most', because the new downloads like Building are exclusive to other sites, like our own webstore.
So if you like to get your music from Napster, be sure to check us out over there.
Okay, back to the studio to work on those new songs...
*04/25/10 -
We recently added our 8 minute+ song (epic?) "Interference" to the Gravity Tree downloads now available at the Boost Independent Music shop. (The song Interference is originally from the album Ultimate Backward .)
We're a featured artist there as well. You can find us easily, by choosing "progressive" from the "browse by music style" menu on the site's main page.
In addition to the music-in-progress, Gravity Tree has been updating their pages at ReverbNation.com. We've been steadily climbing the charts over there, which is a little strange for us - even appearing on charts. We'll try not to get too popular ;-)
There were also talks concerning a new video, work for which should be getting underway next month. More on this and the new songs in an upcoming newsletter.
Hear Interference
Listen to more prog rock
*03/16/10 -
Gravity Tree is at work on no less than four (4) new songs. While we've made some good progress on one especially, we're withholding a release date for now.
All the new material will ultimately be available on the next full length album. Many will be available beforehand as digital singles at shops like Boost Independent Music. One of the reasons we're at Boost music is because they offer such a good deal on MP3 downloads - as low as 69 cents US. BTW, if you know of a good online shop you'd like to see our music, drop us a note or comment on our MySpace page. We want to make sure our music is where it's most convenient for you, so let us know.
*02/25/10 -
Several weeks ago now Gravity Tree was asked to do a 'station ID', if you will, for a progressive rock website. So if you're listening to Power of Prog and you hear us talking at you, don't be too surprised.
We're back to work on new songs after an unexpected delay that kept Alan out of the studio for nearly a month. Three new songs are in the works and barring any further delays, the first of them should make it to download sites in the next few weeks. Look out for it!
*01/01/10 - Happy New Year, everyone. As we say goodbye to 2009, we remember some fairly amazing things that happened for us. It's been a busy year for Gravity Tree, and we hope it was a good year for all of you.
Way back in February we released a 3-song EP (for free! Drop us a note if you've been a fan and didn't get it);
In the spring and over the summer we hit some big numbers on the music sites, including one million plays on the Progressive chart at NumberOneMusic; and were making some good progress again at last, on writing and recording for the new album.
In September, we released a brand new song, "Building", as a web-only download (you have your copy, right?). Among other things, it hit #1 in its genre on RadioIndy, and #6 on the NumberOneMusic.com progressive chart. Yeah, we were surprised too - should we be worried?
http://bit.ly/3yeajr
At the end of November, we released a newly remastered version of our song "Wait" appearing on Melodic Revolution Records' new holiday compilation disc, "A Very Progressive Christmas: Vol. I". ("A Very Progressive Christmas" was the fifth compilation disc we've been a part of over the last seven years.) As of this writing, it is still in the Top 5 selling albums at the Mindawn music site. We were honored to be included, and hope you've had a chance to check out the sonically superior new version of the song. If not, it's still available for download here:
http://bit.ly/7EtONp
The end of the year finds us at work on more new songs. With all of this going on (plus trying to catch a little sleep once in a while, teach a guitar lesson, or write some new music for someone else), we've learned our lesson about guessing when music gets done; and will let you know as soon as we have a firm release date.
Which brings us to the end our quick look back at 2009. Now we can look forward to giving you some bold new progressive music to match what we hope will be an exciting new year.
Gravity Tree
http://www.gravitytree.com
BTW, if you're really interested in we do, join the street team and help us tell everyone about this crazy music. (In return, you'll get free stuff.)
http://streetteam.gravitytree.com
*12/20/09 -
"A Very Progressive Christmas" has charted into the Top 5 Albums at Mindawn. (The chart represents the best-selling albums at the shop.) The holiday album includes our newly remastered song WAIT, as well as songs from other popular progressive artists, including ARS Nova, Cirrha Niva, Legend, Henny Arve, Tommie Brewster, Andrew Roussak, Don Schiff (Rocket Scientists, Lana Lane), Kurt Tischer (Temple 8), and even more.
Speaking of chart-toppers, our new song BUILDING hit number 1 on the RadioIndy chart (and notice how we're nowhere near April fools day!). Meanwhile, Gravity Tree is hard at work on a new song for release early next year. Look for our 2009 Newsletter wrap-up edition in your inbox soon (or subscribe to our newsletter here).
*11/26/09 -
Melodic Revolution Records has announced the release of "A Very Progressive Christmas", a new compilation disc featuring the music of several popular progressive music groups - including Gravity Tree. Download singles will be available November 27 (one day after Thanksgiving); and the album itself will be released on December 1.
The album includes the Gravity Tree song WAIT, newly remastered just for this special holiday release.
More information can be found by clicking on the banner (above) or by viewing the press release here.
Happy Holidays from Gravity Tree!
*11/02/09 -
There is a major sale on "ULTIMATE BACKWARD", the latest avant-prog album from prog-rock duo Gravity Tree.
Amie Street Music is selling "ULTIMATE BACKWARD" for $2 or less as a download, and individual MP3 downloads for as low as 15 cents.
You read that right. Here's the link:
http://bit.ly/1KI6Jn
They have an interesting pricing structure over there: the sooner you buy, the cheaper the download or album. So last time we checked, you could get our songs for 15 cents a piece, and the whole album for a dollar fifty!
Obviously, prices won't stay that low forever. So if you don't have our album "ULTIMATE BACKWARD", or are missing a few downloads, now is the time to grab some new progressive music, for pretty close to free.
*09/18/09 - Your friends of progressive rock duo Gravity Tree have released a new song. It's a special web-only mix of a piece from the forthcoming new avant-prog album release. The song is called "BUILDING", and is currently at our Audiolife webstore, the ZeBOX music store, with more locations to follow - including Boost and others. You can hear it first (above) here and on our pages at ReverbNation and MySpace, as well as our own Download page. Check our blogs soon for more...
*03/19/09 - The reviews page bears another good review of ULTIMATE BACKWARD, this time from Expose Magazine. ...Their material bears a stamp of currency, yet also features the conceptual ideals of classic progressive rock... You can't go read the article at their site, however; they're a print-only mag (a dying breed, good for them). So we thank Expose for permission to reprint the entire review here. In April, we'll be following up here, on our new info site and at our blog with a note about soon-to-be-released music downloads, and the upcoming new album.
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