Could this be the investment thing where folk could put money into the making of the new album?
I seem to remember something along those lines right when the 5th album started getting talked about.
EDIT: Yeah I think this is the same thing
Some company's interim report
The important bit:
"The Company and Ingenious Music VCT 2 plc equally co-funded the venture with an
initial £2 million followed by a further £1 million investment, to be made in
the latter part of 2007. An additional £1million has also been made available as
a further marketing fund, should the parties see this as commercially beneficial
at a later stage. Ingenious have formed a joint venture company, Independiente
Music Ventures Travis Limited, to release the band's fifth album, which is due
for release in early 2007. Both UK and international distribution for the album
will be handled by SonyBMG."