Welcome to Myriad Streams!
Myriad Streams is a place to come and listen to good music, without the noise and clamour of thousands of other artists being promoted to you by industrial-scale sites. This is human-scale presentation of culture.
Myriad Streams is a calm space where you can properly get to know the body of work developed over one personʼs creative life, meet the musicians that artist works with, each playlist a cross-section of a network of musical relationships, a slice of a single real creative life.
We are delighted to share information about the up-coming tour of Phil Bancroft's Beautiful Storm...
Tour Dates
18/3 Cluny 2 Newcastle GemArts- Buy Tickets Here.
19/3 The Blue Lamp Aberdeen Jazz Festival- Buy Tickets Here.
20/3 An Tobar and Mull Theatre- Get Tickets Here.
21/3 Edinburgh NOVUS St Brides Centre- Buy Tickets Here.
22/3 Resolis Community Arts Resolis Memorial Hall- Book Tickets Here.
We invite you to reflect on the power you have to change the future of our culture. If you only listen on the huge platforms, the artists who shout loudest, or those selected and packaged by the commercial music industry will be presented to you. For some people, this is what they love- and thatʼs great. A huge body of classic work has emerged from the commercial music industry.
But there is another side to culture, non-commercial artists who go deeper and slower, build creative output over a whole lifetime, mingled in with bringing up families, and the other paying jobs needed to finance their art. This gives a different perspective, allowing them to produce a different type of music. They donʼt want or need to shout as loud because their energy comes from a different place.
Myriad Streams currently features the music of its founder, Phil Bancroft, but before too long there will be a village of Myriad Streams sites, a community of artists, with each site providing a place to get to know one dedicated, talented non-commercial artist, collective or band- artists who appreciate the value of art over commodification, who make art for reasons other than fame or money.
Sign-Up to our free mailing list, and you will receive a single email before the launch of each playlist or album launch- to keep you in the loop, telling you which musicians are on the playlist, which tracks, or flagging up the next album release.
When we launch, you will be able to buy a membership to get access to the full site, where you can enjoy all Philʼs albums, live recordings and videos, writing, reviews, and loads more. Prices will always be low- starting at £1 for a 24-hour subscription. The first 20 mailing list sign-ups will receive a 6-month free full-access membership.
Shortly we will be launching a sharing credits system- if you have signed-up to a Free membership, when you share a track or album with a friend, that share link is tagged with your membership ID, and if your friend visit the site with that link you gain a credit which you can redeem against a full-access membership or an album download from Bandcamp- so listeners with limited means can still support the creation of music on this site.
We are a values-led organisation interested in supporting the sustainability of non-commercial creative practice in the world of Spotify through building rich direct relationships with listeners, giving a diverse range of listeners a place to build a relationship with an artist and their work— with no noise or hard sell. Myriad Streams has been built with love and care by Paul Egan of Digital Dexterity in partnership with Phil Bancroft, with the support of Creative Scotland.
Thanks for reading!