You can find an overview of our (amiestreet)revenues of the past quarter on our website: http://www.laudanumforest.com/revenues.html
And at the bottom of that page you can download the excell file with the division of that money among our believers.

"Haunted" (Poe cover for MaryJo) is getting our full attention now, until it's finished!
Yes, the money we make, goes to our believers. 1 part = 1/5000 part of our income. It's the same for us band members.
To increase income our first target is Amiestreet . We have 25 tracks for sale on that website. Help us out if you prefer to be a millionaire sooner rather than later. How: Make a free account on Amiestreet and become a fan or ask friends to give the songs a listen. Check out our website www.laudanumforest.com to find out about the other sites we're on.
If you buy CD's (or anything) on the internet, use this link: http://www.merchanteyes.biz/
It helps us, sellaband, and a lot of artists, and doesn't cost you anything!!

August 6th: Do You Know Me is the first song on The 16th Eppy Gibbon Podcast Show .

OUR NEW WEBSITE: WWW.LAUDANUMFOREST.COM
It contains a clear (graphic) explanation of the Big Plan, 
9 song pages, and much more!

Big Plan:

We will give all of our revenues* to our believers
starting july 1st of 2008.

We are going to sell our songs on every possible website.
You’ll receive the percentage of income equal to the percentage of the 50K you have invested in us. So, if you have one Laudanum Forest part, you get a 1/5000 part of the money we make.
Believers will get screenshots of our earnings on the different sites. The last day of each quarter we count believers and calculate who gets what.
Pay out is when we reach 50K. If you have left us by then, you loose your share.
As we are at 4,5K now, that indeed means a big part of our revenues (91%) doesn’t get divided yet. But that money will be kept aside and will be divided among the believers as well when we reach 50K.
During the “recording period” the deal doesn’t change.

When the album is out, the deal will be about the recorded songs only. And the way the revenues are divided changes slightly, as Sellaband gets 1/3 of the revenues on the recorded songs for two years. But we’ll add our 1/3 to the 1/3 for the believers.

When Sellaband looses its 1/3, two years after, we keep 1/3 of the revenues on the 50K album for ourselves, and we give the believers the remaining 2/3 … forever (while normally you'd stop sharing revenues all together). We keep providing you with screenshots, and pay out will be once a year.
We’ll have to find a way to bind us to that promise legally, we know. Suggestions are welcome!

How will we promote our songs?
(we take about a month to write and record a song)
Every song gets its own web page (made by the indescribable Marco Galliano), and each one will have a different atmosphere to give the song an extra dimension. Here's an example: Special page for Astronomy: read the Walkthrough to win 2 free laudanum parts.
In time, we'll do video clips as well. We have the equipment, but it may take until 2009 before we start making them.

*as for the collabs, keep in mind we can only give you our own share

To find out about the incentive tracks: scroll down to the incentives!

Laudanum Forest is:
Stefan De Cauwer: electric guitars
Patrick Vrancken: drums, bass
Stefan Saenen (Naf): keyboards, acoustic guitars, vocals
Marco Galliano: webdesign, lead triangle

We're also in The Collaboration Project

Other links:
        Amiestreet                Reverbnation                Myspace

               Naf on YouTube

INCENTIVES:
1 prt: 4 mp3's
3 prts: 10 mp3's
10 prts: Full CD ("The Asylum") + bonus tracks
*100 prts:
you receive full rights on a song written for you. We won't compose a full arrangement for this one. It will be piano and vocals only. We upload it on the sites and all the revenues are yours as long as you keep the 100 parts.

*only for the first 61 believers (list in our blog)

We'll record a song with the lyrics being the names of the first 61 believers.

And what's next?

-Collaborations:
a. "Jurgung Meister", a song by Telepathy, we will arrange.
b. "Could Have Been" (with Moorlandt, Kristen, Annie Bacon and MR-10)
c. Multi collab (with Caya, Telepathy and Moorlandt) on "Induction"
e. "Indian Love Poem" (with Telepathy)

-Haunted (Poe) cover for MaryJo

-Breeding personalized for Maximus

-Our own songs: "Abe", "Tonsil Flora" and "Not Sure"

... oh yes, we changed our name to Laudanum Forest. Laudanum is taken 10 256 times already (roughly estimated), and we wouldn't want you to accidentally buy stuff of one of the other Laudanums!