You can buy it right now at CDBaby. Soon it will be at the Sita Merch Empire (where we’ll get more profit per sale), but with today’s snow it may take a while for the initial shipment of CDs to reach the order fulfillment warehouse.
In semi-related news, I mention the soundtrack on this podcast [...]
Smackdown: Open Source or Closed Doors? (click here to listen)
The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie online for free and turned herself into a free-culture activist. Composer Jaron Lanier was a digital pioneer in the ’90s, but [...]
A segment on Sita Sings the Blues on NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, starting [...]
The immensely talented Todd Michaelsen composed and performed the fabulous title track and much of the score for Sita Sings the Blues, which are now available for streaming (free) and download ($0.99) at toddmichaelsen.com. He has lots of other great music on his site too, you won’t [...]
Music collector Matthew Lanoue has made available as free downloads the Annette Hanshaw songs used in Sita Sings the Blues. These recordings are only available anywhere due to the efforts of record collectors, NOT Big Media corporations. Thanks Matthew!
Update – today, October 18, is Annette Hanshaw’s birthday! How’s that for fortuitous timing? Hat tip to [...]
TV and Radio:
BBC World
Morning Edition, WNYC
My First Time, WNBC
AVS TV
Magazines:
Premiere’s Top 10 Films of Tribeca 2008
“wittily written, brilliantly acted”
–Variety
“beautifully audacious”
–Premiere
“One-Woman Pixar”
–Wired
“a unique depiction of the epic”
–Zee News
“…both heartfelt and consistently witty, the type of low-fi animated musical that puts Disney to shame.”
–FilmMaker Magazine/IFP
“a strange and beautiful little film”
–Spout
“funny and eye-popping and never bogs down.”
–Nerve
“One of the [...]
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to hear Sita Sings the Blues mentioned on the radio. That’s what will supposedly happen on WNYC tomorrow (Tuesday April 22) around 6:30ish (FM) and 8:30ish (AM), during Morning Edition. I think it’s local only, but you can hear it online (hour 2, about mid-way [...]