@Doofy - I saw that tweet yesterday, grabbed all ten last night. I think most were mentioned on the Ubu thread, although I did not see a link to this collection. Some quality music there.
"This a collection of demos i made while trying to start Dumb Luck (except for Headset Strings, which was a part of a Headset song). Dumb Luck ended up heading in a much different direction but i like how these songs fit together."
otherwise, if you'd like to donate a dollar or more, you can download the album here(you will receive the free ep 'gift ii' with your download).
here's the original write up at the label's site:
Denver based producer and sound artist offthesky (aka Jason Corder) is known for his reputable list of releases on Resting Bell, Rural Colours, SEM, Hibernate and Home Normal, among others. On this release offthesky embraces the idea of evolution in his artistic process by adopting a completely different approach from his regular methods. Using an old iPod touch as a tracking device and an iPad equipped with various noise and synth apps, Jason delivers two densely textural long-format ambient soundscapes recorded mostly from his time spent in various parks.
lossless is a rich twenty-one minute soundscape full of distorted gurgling melodies displaced against a thick grainy atmosphere of static and organic tonalities. Part noise and part ambient, offthesky produces grand waves of rough sonic beauty using eighty-three layers of outdoor recorded material. RGBwaster is a dark and hauntingly beautiful epic noise-scape with intense cavernous progressions.
The Wire Salon: An audience with Robert Wyatt: - A rare onstage discussion with Robert Wyatt, in which the great singer-songwriter talked about selected tracks from his back catalogue. The discussion was chaired by The Wire's Tony Herrington and included an audience Q&A section.
12 April, 2012.
The Free Music Archive has a wonderful selection of muisc from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum just put on its Summer Concert list, well worth a visit.
As you say the ISGM collection is well worth a listen - as is the Podcast 'The Concert' (the archive contains over 100 hours of Podcasts - as with any music podcast, the only real problem is if you want to find a particular work).
I was a regular listener to the Gardner podcasts when they started out. (And before my music-listening options exploded exponentially.) Always enjoyed the intro commentaries and thinking behind the program selections.
Hyperion records - free monthly sampler. Think this is a new addition on their site as I have not seen this before (or am I going blind), it has one track from each of the month's releases, looks to be available for each month back to January.
I don't bite on those amazon packages with 100 snippets of this and that for $2.99 or whatever, but with Naxos for $0.00 how could I resist? For some reason the DLM says the artist for all the tracks is a John Holloway. Weird.
I had doubts about the Hyperion offer working in the US, but it did.
The Choir - Flap Your Wings, as pointed out by by Greg on the NP thread. Maybe you have this already, but this Noisetrade version has a bonus track, The Forest, from (The Forest) from their new album The Loudest Sound Ever Heard.
From the Review: "This year, the festivals sonic reach is wider than ever, encompassing everything from churning art metal to spry, buoyant hip-hop, with stops off at just about everything in between." Me, I was hoping for some spry metal and some churning hip-hop, and maybe some buoyant art, but it's free.
Wow ! - "In January of this year, The New York Guitar Festival hosted The Apollo Project, a live re-imagining of Brian Enos 1983 album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Marking the 30th anniversary of the album, the performance took place at New Yorks World Financial Center Winter Garden and featured Brooklyn ambient ensemble Itsnotyouitsme (guitarist Grey McMurray and violinist Caleb Burhans), multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Brooklyn guitarist Noveller, Tortoises Jeff Parker and composer David Torn.
The musicians performed the album in its entirety, offering loose interpretations of the ambient music written as a tribute to the NASA moon landings. Also featured behind the musicians were scenes from the Craig Teper documentary Man In The Right Seat, a chronicle of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchells epiphany in space. Following the completion of Enos Apollo album, the group of musicians improvised for several minutes on free-form ambient structures."
Asia - XXX, free song of the day comes from this album. This might have been big news in 1990. Does the name of the album imply they have thirty albums out now?
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BTW: The Ubuweb thread never grows old !
- Thank you very much Foody. . .
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DNTEL (aka. Jimmy Tamborello) says: - Some might remember DNTEL from the much hyped and brilliant album Life Is Full of Possibilities from 2001.
"Day three of UbuWeb's media servers downtime. More info as it happens here. Fingers crossed. Thx."
B/B/S/ - Recorded february 14th 2012 at NK, Berlin.
Aidan Baker - Guitar/Bass + effects
Andrea Belfi - Drums/Percussion/synth
Erik Skodvin - Guitar + effects
4 Volumes of freebies from really cool labels like Tru Thoughts, Ubiquity, Ninja Tune, etc.
The Wire Salon: An audience with Robert Wyatt:
- A rare onstage discussion with Robert Wyatt, in which the great singer-songwriter talked about selected tracks from his back catalogue. The discussion was chaired by The Wire's Tony Herrington and included an audience Q&A section.
12 April, 2012.
- And also on Cantaloupe (with info, backcover etc.)
Hyperion records - free monthly sampler. Think this is a new addition on their site as I have not seen this before (or am I going blind), it has one track from each of the month's releases, looks to be available for each month back to January.
I had doubts about the Hyperion offer working in the US, but it did.
The Choir - Flap Your Wings, as pointed out by by Greg on the NP thread. Maybe you have this already, but this Noisetrade version has a bonus track, The Forest, from (The Forest) from their new album The Loudest Sound Ever Heard.
From the Review: "This year, the festivals sonic reach is wider than ever, encompassing everything from churning art metal to spry, buoyant hip-hop, with stops off at just about everything in between." Me, I was hoping for some spry metal and some churning hip-hop, and maybe some buoyant art, but it's free.
- "In January of this year, The New York Guitar Festival hosted The Apollo Project, a live re-imagining of Brian Enos 1983 album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks. Marking the 30th anniversary of the album, the performance took place at New Yorks World Financial Center Winter Garden and featured Brooklyn ambient ensemble Itsnotyouitsme (guitarist Grey McMurray and violinist Caleb Burhans), multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, Phish bassist Mike Gordon, Brooklyn guitarist Noveller, Tortoises Jeff Parker and composer David Torn.
The musicians performed the album in its entirety, offering loose interpretations of the ambient music written as a tribute to the NASA moon landings. Also featured behind the musicians were scenes from the Craig Teper documentary Man In The Right Seat, a chronicle of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchells epiphany in space. Following the completion of Enos Apollo album, the group of musicians improvised for several minutes on free-form ambient structures."
Gizeh records have put out a new free sampler. It includes tracks from Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland, Farewell Poetry, and Detwiije.
Free on Amazon UK, good sampler of Scottish artists and bands
Sub-Pop Sampler free on Amazon
Merge Summer 2012 Sampler, incl M.Ward, Lambchop, and many many more.
Arts and Crafts Summer 2012 Sampler
Bar None Records Sampler
ATO Records, Spring 2012 sampler, so a few "hits" on it....Alabama Shakes, Umphrey's McGee, Primus (an unholy trinity if there ever was one)
SaddleCreek Summer 2012, including Haile Selassie by Bright Eyes[/url]
Fake Four, Inc. A Record Label Sampler Volume 4