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  • Yes, but as long as you keep posting here I can keep my twitter feed streamlined :-)
  • edited January 2012
    The excentric Brittish freakfolk/avantgarde ensemble, Volcano The Bear, headed by the amazing Daniel Padden has recently posted selected tracks from a number of their albums and EP's @ The Free Music Archive.

    - As an example:
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    - Really amazing stuff !
  • I want to sign up for the DAS too. The Bach organ link is wonderful. I don't yet understand what this "twitter" thing is, but there seem to be many good links in the pages you linked to.
  • Yes, the James Kibbie Bach Organ Works are wonderful. There appears to be one track miss-titled in the FMA downloads, the second copy of BWV 550 on Preludes and Fugues, is really BWV 551 Prelude and Fugue in A Minor.

    Just spotted that Dutch Radio 4 currently have a weekly download, a new one each Friday, of a work from the archives of The Sunday Morning Concert. The site is http://zondagochtendconcert.radio4.nl/ but it is in Dutch and the download page looks to change each week. The current week's download is Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Edward Gardner playing Brahms First Symphony.. There is also a podcast that looks to combine that weeks Sunday Morning Concert, and a program of short pieces; both of which are also available for streaming.
  • @PaulR, thanks for that link. (Even my Dutch will stretch to "Download nu!" and "U kunt hier gratis downloaden".
  • Welcome PaulR, good to see a new member, I hope you'll enjoy being here
  • @Germanprof, as you say most of the important bits are simple - gratis, downloaden, etc...

    @greg, good to be here, posting (though I have been lurking for sometime).
  • Paul, are you UK or Europe based? Normally at this time of day there is only Brighternow (Denmark)and myself around, sometimes Nerefidd (Ireland I think) too.
  • edited January 2012
    This weeks download from The Sunday Morning Concert is The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra playing Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

    Greg, I'm UK based.
  • Thanks again, Paul - do keep posting. Greg's UK too, I'm UK origin but now living in the US.
  • Great to have someone else from the UK here, Paul!
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    Pleasant guitar-based ambient/drone. Free on bandcamp.
  • There have been stirrings from Jack Pe
  • From the BigO:

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  • Sadly, now $5, thanks for letting us know, though, Kargatron
  • Yeah, it was a very short time - Previte notes these things in his facebook feed. But the good news is that Bobby has dropped his album prices across the board to $5, very fair prices, and loads of good music. If you don't have any Previte, great place to pick some up.
  • From your pals at the Free Music Archive:
    Abaixar! The best free albums released by filesharing-friendly Brazilian artists in 2011

    http://euovo.blogspot.com/2012/01/declaracao-de-principios-ou-carta-quem.html

    Are any of them good? Which ones? Who knows!

    "Abaixar" would appear to mean "Download"
  • Oh, and:
    @WFMU
    WFMU Download 10 Calexico MP3s, Live in Nuremberg 2009 http://bit.ly/hvfzGN #ccmusic curated by @cashmusic

    http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Calexico/Live_in_Nuremberg_2009/ Great chance to check out Calexico, if you haven't heard them.
  • edited February 2012
    Google Translate renders "Abaixar" as "Lower" but yep, download is what it does. If I find anything I like I'll report back here.
  • edited February 2012
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    Free mini-album from The Caretaker.
    It features a couple of alternate versions and exclusive audio which was used as part of the soundtrack to [the soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald.] but which didn't make the physical release of the album.
  • Lol. I just came here expressly for the purpose of posting that. Great minds...
  • ...end up on the same email lists.
  • I'd already downloaded it before the posting, as I am also on that email list.

    Craig
  • I'm not a fan of Blake, so I haven't listen to see if this is any good: James Blake Live Album .
  • Free DL of fun's "Aim & Ignite" at Noisetrade: http://noisetrade.com/fun
  • "Free DL of fun's "Aim & Ignite"" - wow, that is a great album. Loved it when it came out.
  • edited February 2012
    OK, go DL (or sample) this free track and tell me who this singer's voice reminds you of. Think 70s.

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  • edited February 2012
    I could only play the sample, as I can't download it here, but it is so earily similar to ? ?! I won't put the name to spoil it for others, but it is so similar right from the first notes, even the style of music is the same. I'll whisper Doofy the answer....
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