Once you begin to think about it, you realize that it was bound to happen. A place on the Web where creative independent artists all over the world can take their music form the street corner to the world's stage without loosing their street corner autonomy.

The Indie music online revolution started with mp3.com the humble David fighting the RIAA-Goliath for the little artist, that ended up transforming into another commercial RIAA-like model. It continued with the successful CDBaby model of a CD store for independent artists, followed by the MySpace model that took things a step further by offering irresistible hosting allowing every independent artist to have good web presence with music streaming and links to wherever the artists CD are sold.

We have entered a new era where web presence is common in availability and cost as much as stereo systems are in our living room. This is where CFTA or CDs-FROM-THE-ARTIST dot com comes in. The mission and premise behind CFTA is simple: We have all these independent artists each with her/his own web site, audio music clips to listen to and CDs for sale. Now we need to harness the tremendous power that lies in gathering these isolated artists on the web in one place where they can be easily discovered by music lovers world wide.

CFTA is about creating and providing a single place where every independent artist with web presence that is ready to market her/him self can be found by music lovers anywhere in the world quickly and easily. CFTA is more of an artists and music lovers co-op than a commercial entity that exists to make money from both artists and fans. It was created and is run by artists and music lovers with the mission to harness the latest and best web technology that can be utilized and transformed together with some labor of love into free services for Indie artists and their fans. Sort of like a cool urban club that lets artist come on stage for free.

CFTA free services include:

* CD listing with CD cover picture, CD information and all relevant links to the artist.
* Audio streaming Quick Listen for each CD.
* A complete private Tunes Download Store with direct payments to the artists account.
* Site global search tool for easy finding and navigation.
* Ability for music fans to register Customer Feedback following a CD purchase.
* Community eGroup for fans and artists to communicate and interact.
* Site information blog with readers comments on CFTA issues.
* Tools for music lovers to recommend new undiscovered artists.
* Free, anonymous browsing for anyone with no accounts or passwords.

With a growing community of Indie fans and artists who love the quality free services, CFTAs expects continued expansion of its active community and popularity.

Harei Edom http://www.cdsfromtheartist.com