Whatever happened to The Bhutan Philharmonic?

The free CD with issue 43 contained a rather good track by The Bhutan Philharmonic, a project of Neil Arthur, ex-Blancmange. That was back in 2006 and I've heard nothing of them since. Googling doesn't produce much. The album has been pre-orderable on Amazon for two years.
Anyone heard anything or know anything about them?

The album..

is available on amazon.com for $68! Also, their MySpace page has been deleted, hard to find any other info though.

humphreym | 8 July 2008 - 6:22pm

Very mysterious

I've got a copy somewhere. It sounds to me as if it never actually came out. I wonder whether there was some legal issue. Possibly a sample not cleared or something like that. Will look into it.

David Hepworth | 8 July 2008 - 10:33pm

Having looked a page or two into google

it lists this.............

http://www.mp3sparks.com/r2/The_Bhutan_Philharmonic/The_Bhutan_Philharmo...

Never heard of them....is it legit??? Strangely the site doesn't appear to give any details about who runs it etc.

peterb | 9 July 2008 - 8:27am

It's them Russians again

Read all about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3

It's not possible to buy anything from this site anymore since all the credit card companies took action encouraged by the RIAA.

PaulHThompson | 9 July 2008 - 9:10am

AllOfMp3

No, but it is possible to buy from their replacement sites using other, slightly more unwieldy means. In some cases accounts and balances were transferred from the old site to the new ones. I'll admit to using AllOfMp3 a few years ago quite extensively, and the service was never less than reliable, and file quality good.

Fraser Lewry | 9 July 2008 - 9:17am

Same here

they offered a great service, The link here refers to the rebadged site MP3Sparks, I haven't looked very hard but I haven't seen any other replacements.

All payment routes seem to have been stopped now for this site as well. I'd like to know if it's still possible...

PaulHThompson | 9 July 2008 - 9:42am