A Danger of Sorts

The art of music requires discipline and practice.

The practice of performing music requires an ego.

How to deal with that?

An artist wants to deliver and wants accolades which feed a desire to turn up the heat.

There needs to be a balance. We want to hear how that interplay impacts all concerned.

Talk to us. We want to hear from you.

We want to hear what drives you as a musician or an artist in another field.

Are you in it to serve yourself, or to serve others? Or is it both?

The subject is comprehensive and opinionated enough to defy any firm grasp.

In our lifetime the music business has been plagued with all kinds of seedy associations and unethical practices.

Ethics. Excellence. Embracing.

Those are what Beezwax Records must observe.

You, in reading this, are an important part of improving the overall handling of musical endeavors.

Let your voice be heard toward Beezwax Records LLC. We have a thick skin, and have no care for earthly failures, knowing better things await.

beezwaxrecords1580@gmail.com comes to us directly. Without apology we have a long way to go in catching up with the current age.

Setting the Stage

An antiquated website. A cursory blog as you are reading now.

These all belong to the process of taking Beezwax Records LLC from chapter one of its history into chapter two.

The following necessary, yet unfilled, positions that will help Beezwax Records accomplish its vision to be the record label of record labels when it comes to brass, jazz, and blues music are as follows:

A&R for Blues
A&R for Brass
A&R for Jazz
Advertising Agency
Artist Publicity Manager
Blog Specialist
Brand Development and Promotion
Charitable Agency Relations (deaf and blind)
General Publicity Manager
General Secretary (to manage contacts and correspondence for the undersigned)
Venture Capital Specialist
Web Designer

The ones we have identified as meeting or exceeding our standards thus far are:

Legal Agency - Intellectual Property
Legal Agency - Tax and Accounting
Multimedia Specialist
Physical Media Manufacturing
Radio Promoter
Release Promoter
Digital Media Specialist
Swag Coordinator and Provider
Graphic Arts and Trade Dress Specialist
Local Bank Branch Manager

All of these will, if things go the way we hope, be plugged into the overall vision of Beezwax Records LLC, which is to deliver the beautiful efforts of world class musicians into the ears of appreciative music lovers.

Beezwax Records / just imagine

Imagine a record label where the heads of preeminent brass (classical), jazz, and blues labels collaborated with Beezwax Records, LLC to issue one release per year in their respective genres.

Imagine a record label whose A&R vetting was guided in part by a select group of visually impaired, eclectic audiophiles tilting toward the same.

Imagine a record label that limits its market exclusively to a set of prequalified subscribers who eagerly await their next Beezwax Record, and when they get it it has their name on it.

Imagine a record label that dovetails seamlessly with the manufacturers of physical media and that honors the unique trade dress Beezwax Records has already established.

Imagine a record label that promotes its musicians with professionally produced spotlight vignettes that let them tell their story.

Imagine a record label that makes an art of marketing while reflecting the passion of both artist and audience.

Imagine a record label whose audience is in essence signed to the label and enjoys limited, exclusive ownership of Beezwax Records physical media.

Imagine the collaboration Beezwax Records could generate to promote its musicians robustly on broadcast media and in live performances worldwide.

Imagine a record label whose musicians have skin in the game, an incentive to excel, and are compensated fairly and squarely in perpetuity and may will that benefit to their posterity.

Imagine a record label endowed with the best legal expertise in recorded arts.

Imagine a record label endowed with the most aggressive shopper to film and television the music arts has ever known.

Imagine a record label that seeks to make use of all forms of recorded media, but especially does R&D in new technologies for delivering audio art.

Imagine a record label willing to explore new and different genres besides brass, jazz, and blues.

Imagine a record label named after a substance used in the first audio recording known to man and visually marked by the two colors scientifically known as visible to the human eye, namely those on a bee.

Imagine a record label whose dedication to brass music is located in the band instrument capital of the world, Elkhart, Indiana.

Imagine a record label whose most fundamental premise is that there is no greater gift given, short of life itself, than the music arts.

That's Beezwax Records.

I truly hope that together we can make it happen. The best things demand a good team, and you are now on it, whether on the giving or receiving end.

-DAS
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David A. Seyboldt
Beezwax Records LLC
P.O. Box 2206
Elkhart, IN 46516
beezwaxrecords1580@gmail.com
www.beezwax-records.com

To Embrace the Incomprehensible

If you undertake to embrace and hold forth the gift of music you are in for a ride that may consume you.

Beezwax Records LLC has been undertaking to do this for 67 years. It is both exhilarating and life-changing.

Fortunately, for Beezwax Records, we can take a step back and focus upon only recorded music, with all of its audacity and subjectivity, because the first audio recording known to man made use of beeswax.

But it was not music. It was a spoken voice, which, when you think about it, is no less precious.

Even though Beezwax Records is limiting itself to recorded music, and limiting itself in other ways, it could very easily happen that it be consumed.

What I mean is, to handle it with proper care could wear one out.

You are about to witness two chapters in the history of a brass, jazz, and blues record label based out of Elkhart, Indiana, the band instrument capital of the world.

I happen to be the owner of Beezwax Records LLC and can tell you straight up: the first chapter is a sight to be hold, chock full of stories with a bottom line that is decidedly negative.

But you know what? The second chapter will be decidedly positive as long as the Creator allows Beezwax Records to develop.

Tomorrow I will, d.v., post here what I call the "Vision Statement" for Beezwax Records LLC.

It has been shared with our artists and a few others. Now we'll share it with the world.

Be assured, Beezwax Records LLC is not flush with money, fame, and fortune. If that's what it were all about we're in the wrong business.

But music is a business at times. When it is, it needs to be special and honorable.

Ethical. Excellent. Embracing.

Those are the core principles that will guide Beezwax Records through both chapters of its history.

If you've read this far, get ready to witness a redefinition and refinement of recorded music as you know it.

The pieces are all in place, and to my chagrin, it is this little, arrogant, totally unworthy soul who is in the middle of it.

-DAS
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David A. Seyboldt
Beezwax Records LLC
P.O. Box 2206
Elkhart, IN 46516
beezwaxrecords1580@gmail.com
www.beezwax-records.com