On a nice Saturday evening Shawn and I sat down in front of our computers, turned on Skype and had ourselves a little chit chat about all things L5R.
Before I go on with the content. Please excuse my spoken English: first
I am not a native speaker; the interview ended up as a huge rush job as
my sound card went bust, so I had to run off to a freind's place to do
it and in the process forgot my headset (thus the echo when Shawn
talks). The podcast is not the best quality, but it is not a strain on
the ears either.
We spoke about the Story Team, some characters
like Ginawa, Yojiro, Muhito... Then there was a brief mention of the
Spider Clan. The comic and the board game were mentioned
too.
Big thank you goes out to Magnatune and their podcast program which allowed me to use one of their songs for the intro, ironically it is a song called Hachi from Tilopa's Pictures of Silence album.
Here it is, all 47:39 minutes of the podcast (about 30Mb in size).
If
you download it, please take a few minutes to register if you need to,
and leave me a comment. A simple "thank you" will be more than enough.
In case you are feeling too lazy consider this: I needed to set it up;
then it took my bandwidth and me about 30 minutes to set up Skype and
the recording program; 15 minutes of testing; 30 minute car drive to a
friend's place when testing showed my sound card to be dead; an hour to
do the interview; 4 hours of editing; an hour and more bandwidth to
find a nifty song for the intro; 45 minutes of Photoshoping to do the
cover art.
About Magnatune
Founded in 2003, Magnatune (www.magnatune.com)
is an independent, online record label that hand selects its own
artists, sells its catalog of music through online downloads and
print-on-demand CDs and licenses music for commercial and
non-commercial use. Based on the principle that "we are not evil," the
company offers fair-trade music to consumers by equally sharing all
revenue from the sale of albums with artists and allowing artists to
retain full rights to their music. All music can be previewed free of
charge with a "try before you buy" philosophy. Customers can also
choose how much they want to pay for the music with pricing ranging
from $5-18 for a downloadable album or print-on-demand CDs.