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Space Bear Records Opens Its Doors Officially with the Release of 'A Final Year for President Lincoln'
February 12, 2025 | In Celebration of (what would be) Abraham Lincoln's 226th Birthday
Available to stream on Bandcamp or order as CD

Our focus and mission

Albums and Such... Some Venting on Digital Streaming

Space Bear Records recognizes a loss in quality and the original intent of how many artists intended their music to be experienced. We understand we are not going to change the big names (such as Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, YouTube, etc) or their customers from experiencing music as isolated music events—things that were meant to be a part of something bigger reduced to a small event. For example, you may not want to sit through hours of opera to arrive at a crowd-pleasing 'Ride of the Valkyries' or an hour of symphony to hear 'Ode to Joy.'

Our invitation is simple. Enjoy the music as it was meant, from beginning to end. It might be 40 minutes | 20 minutes | 5 minutes | 30 seconds |40 hours. A 'track' might be 30 minutes to present a complete song or the first half of a concert program. Let the artist that created the music decide. Granted, we cannot police how you decide to experience the program; however, we can be stubborn to an integrity that we will not splice up the music into little bits (tracks) or throw commercials into the middle of a music performance, so frequently done with digital streaming.

Application of Labels

Our focus is on the artistry of living music composers. Can you throw that in a box? Probably not. Can we make subjective judgments as to quality. Probably yes. We accept music from composers and we will share it at our choosing. We can't say what tags would be used as descriptors—anything we decide to put out to the world will be (in our opinion) unique and represent unfiltered creativity. Will there be moments of uncomfortableness or unbridled emotions, we hope so. Will it be popular? To be determined, but we appreciate you taking the time to listen.

At Space Bear Records we love music that is

serious, humorous, dramatic, sweet, angry, happy, imaginative, unique, peaceful, disruptive, alive, depressed, enchanting, other-worldly, inspiring, passionate, vibrant, bitter, salty, fused, edgy, non-conforming, powerful, loving, forlorn, despondent, warm, cold, dark, bright, melancholic, improvised, chaotic, planned, unplanned, virtuosic, simple, numbing, lethargic, frightening, optimistic, paralyzing, fragile, thick, graceful, frazzled, grouchy, bold, patriotic, tense, resolved, unpredictably short, unpredictably long, and more

At Space Bear Records we love the sensations we feel when we experience the music we love as music-makers or music-listeners... sensations of increasing (or decreasing) blood flow, goosebumps, fullness, a natural highness, pleasure, numbness, uncontrollable dance movements, and then some.

We crave music that is—human.

One fine afternoon, deep in the woods, a curious bear stumbled upon what he first thought was a shiny picnic basket, but in fact turned out to be an abandoned record player with a box of vinyls. With a swipe of his paw (and a bit too much enthusiasm), he dropped the needle on a funky jazz record, and suddenly the forest had a soundtrack. Birds tapped their claws, squirrels improvised backup vocals, and the bear himself, swaying with surprising rhythm, discovered he had a natural talent for conducting. By the time the sun set, the woodland creatures had formed a full orchestra, and the bear—now known as Maestro Space Bear—was already planning a world tour, starting with the nearby campground.

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