After 4 years of production, Leslie Fish's "Elfland" is now available on all major streaming services!

This project captures many of Leslie's most beloved space songs, alongside other never-before-heard live performances from 2000-2001.

Quick links:

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6jUvACXhYw4lXQeb6gQUxb?si=RsI5XXtaSeyzTObt0TliCg
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pry66qLPM&list=OLAK5uy_mUN-a7_sihRmnbGSq5Ngo84aTCihv4Pd4
• Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/elfland/6790516512

Elfland CDs are still in manufacturing, and expected in early September.

As a reminder, we can only produce these posthumous restoration projects to the extent that people are actually buying them. With pre-orders only covering 8% of Elfland's production costs, Leslie's music projects are now roughly $12K in the red.

Consequently, we have made the difficult choice to suspend production on Leslie's subsequent restoration projects until her music is back in the black. At the present rate of sales, this will likely require a 12-16 month production pause.

You can purchase Elfland here: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/elfland/

"Inspired by a convention-party discussion about the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise, which I still think was undeservedly under-rated. The fans complained that the theme song was too narrow in scope for the stories, so I came up with something we thought more fitting." — Leslie

"First Enterprise" song from Leslie Fish's "Angel with a Sword" album: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/angel-with-a-sword/

Song by Andy Eigel

Performed by Twotonic:
Steve Macdonald: Lead vocals & guitar
Katy Dröge-Macdonald: Backing vocals

LYRICS:

Our people ruled an empire that stretched across the stars
Our proud and noble warrior race had won a thousand wars
But the clouds of ships that we once had which would swarm and block the sun
Are now a faded memory- past conquests overrun
And this is what it means to be Centauri

I think back to my homeworld now, a shining gem in space
The birthplace of my family noble bloodlines are yet traced
But such decadence has now befallen poor Centauri Prime
That we've become a tourist trap- open nine to five Earth time
And this is what it means to be Centauri

We've gathered on this station now, our last, best, hope for peace
And I muse about my glory days, and drink to find release
Great Maker! What I wouldn't give to taste that time again
'Til a stranger from the Darkness says he wants to be my friend
And this is what it means to be Centauri

And the Darkness now is coming to enslave all in its path
All races in the galaxy will bear soon its full wrath
And I can only sit and wait and watch as Shadows come
To conquer and destroy... oh gods, what have I done?
And this is what it means to be Centauri

This is what it means to be Centauri

© Andrew Eigel

This is the second half of Joe Ficklin's interview with Leslie Fish (circa 1994-1995).

1. Performance — Rimini (1:30)
2. Performance — The Thousandth Man (8:30)
3. Performance — Sarajevo (16:50)
4. Performance — True Story (23:55)
5. Performance — The Cutty Wren (30:35)
6. Performance — Ship of Stone (35:30)

This is also the first upload using our new digitizing setup, which eliminates a lot of the VHS artifacts in our prior videos.

(Randomly, if anyone happens to have a Panasonic DMR ES-10 or ES-15 DVD player sitting around, and is open to selling it at a good price or donating it, please DM me. I am only interested in *those two specific models*, because they double well as a passthrough line-based TBC for VHS transfers, and can allegedly prevent the loss of sync that resulted in the Elgato Video Capture software abandoning this transfer midway.)

Concert recording from Leslie's new (2026) "Elfland" album: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/elfland/

"This was inspired by one of my mother’s last desperate attempts to make a 'lady' of me and marry me off to some rich man. I never sang it for her." — Leslie Fish

Video footage from Forbidden Planet and Honey West, featuring the late Anne Francis. All video rights reserved by the copyright owners.

First fan video for Leslie Fish's "Ishmael's Oath" (via Leslie's new Elfland CD)

>"I caught a replay of the original “Moby Dick” movie on late-night TV, and realized just how many Pagan elements are embedded in it. And then I saw Mark Twain’s famous quote." — Leslie Fish

I'm (of course) not the video creator, but have uploaded it to Leslie's channel with their permission.

If of interest, there are keyboard arrangements of a few classic filksongs at the above URL. (e.g. Some Kind of Hero, The Phoenix, etc.)

They also have some performances of them online here: https://www.youtube.com/@castiansmusic/videos

I recently inherited about shrinkwrapped 500 CrO2 tapes (42-ish min, can find out). The tapes are identical, and are all of one microgenre album by a friend who passed away.

Anyone in Seattle area home-duplicating indie cassette projects who might have a use for some of these as blank media or otherwise?

Looking to rehome at no-cost to actual music makers (not resellers). Otherwise, will just resell on eBay myself to free up closet space for my next CD run arriving next month.

Pointers welcome, too. Already pinged Vera Project and Drongo Tapes.

I just received 700 copies of this 33 year old filk tape, and am looking to rehome as many of them as realistic.

These are intended as something you get for free when ordering other stuff from the Prometheus Music website — but realistically, I probably won't invalidate any US-based orders for just the free tape + $4.75 shipping.

In case it helps anyone discover more filk on Spotify, I've set up a chronological playlist with all the filk released by Prometheus Music from 1997 to today.

That's 246 songs, or ~16 hours of music, from Leslie Fish, Julia Ecklar, Kathy Mar, Phoenyx, Bill and Brenda Sutton, and a whole bunch of other folks.

More to come this late summer / early fall.

For anyone who enjoys tinkering around with audio editing, we're making the deconstructed raw stems from Michael Moricz's 2026 production of Hope Eyrie available.

This is technically a product in our store, but the price is free.

Created by Glenn Simser, this is a pretty comprehensive compilation of recorded filk as of about 1991.

Thx to u/Acceptable_Fish4820 for providing the copy to the FANAC Fan History Project, who digitized it and put it online.

You can find other filk history items on the FANAC website here: https://fanac.org/fanzines/Filk/

In 1976, Leslie Fish wrote a fairly remarkable anthem to celebrate the Apollo 11 landing, "Hope Eyrie".

(At least, 'remarkable' is the word that Dr. Roger Launius, formerly NASA's chief historian, used to describe it. He also wrote about this song in his 2005 paper, "Perceptions of Apollo: Myth, nostalgia, memory or all of the above?”, as well as in his other writing.)

Although Leslie has sadly now passed away, I wanted to share a new, labor-of-love recording of this song (using a decades-old vocal recording), that about 20 of us have been working to bring to life over the past year.

The producer is Michael Moricz (who was the final music director for PBS's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.)

Lyrics can be found here: https://filketymology.fandom.com/wiki/Hope_Eyrie

Credits & producer's notes for this new track can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQW7TANzZ9Y&lc=Ugwu84rJwY_ONlC_QwB4AaABAg

You can see if you've been blocked on their Facebook page by checking whether it shows up when you view it here: https://www.facebook.com/cdbaby

If you see "This content isn't available right now" rather than their page, you've probably been blocked.

I haven't heard back from 3 emailed requests to ask them whether their Stages program still exists (since the free Stages Plus submission codes they provided me no longer work, but they still have a website advertising the program: https://cdbaby.com/music-distribution/stages/#plus )

But when I went to their Facebook page, I noticed that they had blocked me. Curious how common this is?

Also, kinda ironic that:
a. They're effectively forcing customers to air our dirty laundry publicly - by THEIR own design. That's because they only respond to problems when we air them on social media now. (I'd certainly rather have just spoken privately with a support person and gone back to higher-value activities, as a full-time music publisher.)

b. They're seemingly blocking the people who are most invested in their service *actually working*. (Back when they had a UX team, I didn't even let them pay me for being a usability study participant because I GENUINELY CARED.)

Newly uploaded video, originally recorded by Rick Weiss.

1. Dinosaur Cookies (00:20)
2. Make This World Come Alive (6:22)
3. California Rain (11:28)
4. Buy the Law (15:05)
5. Brother Michael’s Song [by Mac Carson] (19:20)
6. Blue Bread Mold (27:05)
7. Ballad of the Builder (32:00)
8. First Enterprise (36:25)
9. Virgin Mouse (42:02)
10. Kitten on the Moon (45:00)