Free Download of 37 tracks from around the World. I'm not sure whether or not this can be downloaded in the States, but Lowlife and others in Europe should be able to access it! If the first link doesn't work, try this
There are other similar downloads going back over a year
Thanks, Brighternow, for pointing out the "Now Hear This" compilation disk, which prompted me to check out the Australian band, Dirt Farmer, here. Sounds interesting.
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I am an absolute sucker for lap steel guitar used in electronic ambient music.
And what a release this is, composed of pure light ambience combined with tasteful lap steel guitar licks and soothing synthesizer riffs. When we first heard that these two were going to work together on a release, we knew it was going to be good, but when we first listened we were nonetheless surprised by the delicate and transcendent nature of the music we heard. One of the most striking elements is Tange's lap steel playing, which came as a complete shock to us; we've known him for some time but did not know he played lap steel at all, much less that he had such mastery of the instrument. Combined with the beautiful bed of droney washes, synthesized arpeggios, and drum programming contributed by Phillip, the result is a slice of pure heaven.
Here's a very interesting compilation featuring Daniel Padden, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides, Steve Gunn, Sam Shalabi and many more:
- " Rebetika, a truly underground music created at the beginning of the 20th century, was, in its preamble form, the music vehicle to express a culture bumbling under a constantly changing society a culture based on drugs, haunted by poverty. Unfortunately, in its birth land Greece, Rebetika was transformed through the decades, became soft and gradually deteriorated to a stupid folklore music consumed by the neogreek unmusical masses and tourists alike. For us, early 20s late 30s Rebetika represents the rawest, purest and yet finest form of Greek folk music ever recorded. We regard this music as lyrically powerful, sentimentally resourceful and musically chaste as the blues.
Driven by our homage to it, this compilation tries to throw bridges between the dusty old roads of Rebetika and the shiny new twisty alleys, paved by the free form music pioneers of nowadays. As fanatic spectators we frequently hear the past couple of years, musicians from the scene declaring their love and respect for Rebetika and at the same time more and more compilations with original tracks from 78rpm recordings comes to surface. The interest is growing. So we thought this is the right moment to invite musicians to delve into the roads of Rebetika and come up with a fresh, if not radical, reinterpretation of their own.
We sent three originals to each one and to our surprise, most people reacted positively and either picked one of the three songs to cover or preferred another one they believed more fitting. And even more surprisingly, the actual cover songs the musicians sent us back are of the best quality and wide variety we could hope for. From passionate heartfelt true-to-the-form takes, to completely improvised or fusion attempts to noise rock deconstructions, every contribution sounds vital and captivating. Our humble hope that you will download and enjoy this compilation as much as we did and our wildest dream is that this could set fire to new generations of fearless Rebetika explorers both in our land and abroad."
- Soundeyet - FMA - Bandcamp
BN, I decided to listen to that Elisa Luu. For the first few seconds I thought, "Well, this seems uninteresting." Then after a few seconds more I kept listening. Now I can't stop listening at all. I can't explain it, but I think I'm going to have to buy the FLAC version.
The name Eugene Carchesio may not be an instantly familiar one - but ask anyone interested in underground music from Australia and his name instantly gets a response. For some two and a half decades, Carchesio has been a permanent fixture on the Australian music scene. In many ways a ghost, his presence is often sensed more than seen. Active in groups such as The Deadnotes, The Lost Domain and working extensively under pseudo-names such as DNE, his work is as diverse as it is profound.
Taster's menu is just that, a taster for Carchesio's outstanding output of the past couple of decades. His archive of electronic records will be made available through room40 over the next 12 months.
A couple of free samplers has recently dropped in on Emusic. Quite frankly I don't know if they live up to the "good" description.
Anyways, here they are:
This is free on iTunes. It used to have its own website - that's where I got it from - but that does not seem to be there any more. Rachmaninoff Vespers, All night Vigil, Rhodes College Mastersingers.
I've had this for a few weeks and might have found out about it here...?....but I searched and can't find it already posted. Free sampler from SEM, includes Offthesky, Letna, The Green Kingdom, etc. Some nice tracks.
@Lowlife - yeah, I had downloaded that Matthew Perryman Jones from Noisetrade and just finished listening to it when I read your post. I agree it's worthy of a listen. I'm going to appreciate this one even more when I can listen to it with undivided attention at home. It just sounds like one of those kinds of records that you need to really 'listen' to and best not heard as just background music, as I think there's some real meat in this music.
Noisetrade's got quite a few albums up right now that look good. Next up I'll be listening to downloaded samplers from soon-to-be-released albums from Iris Dement and Amy Cook.
Just found this list of over 50 free releases from Experimedia. Don't know most of the artists, but the most recent two, Antonymes and Clem Leek are very probably worth exploring. Actually, on closer inspection I do already have the Clem Leek, and it's nice.
Thanks for the heads-up on the new Elisa Luu album. I picked up "Chromatic Sigh" nearly a year and a half ago, and I still enjoy it. With all the jazz I listen to these days, artists like Luu have dropped off my radar.
This Hero Hill blog has mixtapes of artists, a few sort of well known but mainly obscure, at least down here, who are based in several Canadian provinces. They still have BC, NL, NT, NU, PE and YT to go. I wonder how many bands there are in Nunavut or the Yukon?
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Johann Johannsson live at Winter Gardens
(192kbps - FatCat Records Podcast)
- "A start-to-finish live performance of J
Free Download of 37 tracks from around the World. I'm not sure whether or not this can be downloaded in the States, but Lowlife and others in Europe should be able to access it! If the first link doesn't work, try this
There are other similar downloads going back over a year
(Amazon currently has the digital download of his latest CD "The Despiser" on special for $3.99.)
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-"The circus of life.
Children laugh as the man sniffs and looks like a hunting dog before stumbling on his destiny.
The time of waiting."
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Phillip Wilkerson and Tange - Ege Denizi
I am an absolute sucker for lap steel guitar used in electronic ambient music.
- A very special album.
ETA: in wav
From Room40.
also some good claasical on this
Anyways, here they are:
This is free on iTunes. It used to have its own website - that's where I got it from - but that does not seem to be there any more. Rachmaninoff Vespers, All night Vigil, Rhodes College Mastersingers.
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NYOP on Noisetrade, well worth a listen
I've had this for a few weeks and might have found out about it here...?....but I searched and can't find it already posted. Free sampler from SEM, includes Offthesky, Letna, The Green Kingdom, etc. Some nice tracks.
Noisetrade's got quite a few albums up right now that look good. Next up I'll be listening to downloaded samplers from soon-to-be-released albums from Iris Dement and Amy Cook.
Thanks for the heads-up on the new Elisa Luu album. I picked up "Chromatic Sigh" nearly a year and a half ago, and I still enjoy it. With all the jazz I listen to these days, artists like Luu have dropped off my radar.
Cheers.