Grassroots Music Organization Just Plain Folks (JPF) has announced their nominees for the 2009 edition of their music awards. The An Early Morning Letter, Displaced track “Condemnation” off of the recent full-length release, A Prison of Oneself, has received a nomination for best song in the “Ambient” category. After receiving a record setting 42,000 albums and over a half million songs from 163 countries around the world, the organization’s staff and team of volunteers filtered the music down to both song and album nominees in 95 genres of music. This year’s nominees come from over 80 different countries around the world.
The organization spent 14 months from the initial entry date to screen all the music and narrow down the field. JPF uses a unique mix of judges that come from the music industry, fellow artist and songwriter peers and music fans. “We feel that those groups mixed together make for a balanced and compelling process which identifies a lot of music that any one group might miss.”
So what is the criterion for judging all this music? “One simple question: Does the music move you?” Whitney explains. “I was an active musician, songwriter and most importantly music lover myself before starting this and when I went to write the instructions for our first awards process back in 1998, it occurred to me that people often use strict and rigid measuring sticks to judge music. That seemed unnatural to me. People listen to and love music that moves them… It either moves people or it doesn’t.”
For a complete listing of this year’s nominees and more information, please visit www.justplainfolks.org.
An Early Morning Letter, Displaced is the ambient recording project of Joseph Labrecque. Founded in 1999, this expressive project combines elements of dark ambient, ethereal, and touches of atmospheric neo-classical to form a unique sound. Releases are distributed through Fractured Vision Media, LLC.
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