Free Music Archive (FMA) Resurrected!

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The great news is that FMA is back up and running with its free, legitimate downloads!

Do go and have a look. There is some excellent music there.

https://freemusicarchive.org/home

It would be great if we could give each other our recommendations of top notch free downloads from FMA.

I'll start the ball rolling with a Prog Rock album "Ghost Shirt Society" by Antethic.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antethic


Comments

  • confusedconfused
    Thanks for the great news. This was the first thing that came to mind.
      
    1989   Sings Wrench Tuttle In Her Dream            2006  Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle

    The underground, 1989: In America, Nirvana’s Bleach sells 10,000 copies. Sonic Youth almost breaks up while recording Goo, Negativland is sampling U2, and Husker Du is a Husker don’t. In the UK, acid house is taking over and everyone says rock is dead. In Toronto of that year, multi-instrumentalist Bob Wiseman takes a break from the drama of Blue Rodeo to record his first solo album Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle: In Her Dream for Warner Bros, an album Chart Magazine would eventually list on its top 100 Canadian albums of all time.  

    Unlike most artists at the dawn of the 1990s, Bob decided to mess with his new corporate overlords from the get-go. Wiseman invented reclusive songwriter “Wrench Tuttle” as a front and kept the ruse up for much of time on Warners.  While on tour in Europe earlier with Blue Rodeo Wiseman had even sent letters to himself as “Wrench Tuttle” in order to open these letters in front of the more gullible music press (we’re looking at you Denise Donlon). Taking on the pseudonym freed Wiseman from both the country rock of Blue Rodeo and his own treated piano-avant past. Instead, Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle is spare blues and raw pop delivered with Wiseman’s heartfelt yelp.  20 Years Later, 2009: The kids are dancing to rock music, the corporate music industry has to evolve or die, and Bob Wiseman is still standing, having collaborated with everyone from The Hidden Cameras to John Oswald. Wiseman still spends much of the year on the road (including stints with Feist and Wilco). 

    The Blocks Recording Club is proud to re-release this album in limited edition vinyl.In 1989 Wiseman was forced by Warners to delete a song about Pepsi-Cola’s collusion in the coupe that installed Augusto Pinochet as dictator of Chile. In fact, the first run of 2000 copies was destroyed. ROCK AND TREE is restored in this new addition. As well, the digital version of the music will be available for free right here on the freemusic archive. If the longevity of Bob Wiseman Sings Wrench Tuttle says anything it’s that great music is forever while the bad habits of the music industry do go away, even if it takes 20 years
  • rostasirostasi
    Yeah, actually FMA was “resurrected” nearly two years ago by the folks at Tribe of Noise.
    As a matter of fact, many months ago I wrote Meghan about why you can no longer download page listings like you could before and received a reply that … well … could’ve been more satisfactory, but, hey, OK, I’ve got plenty to listen to already. After the past year or so, I’ve concluded that it was much more fun back in the WFMU days, but still there are some interesting things that occasionally pop up.
  • peterfredericspeterfrederics
    Panta Rei 1973 s/t album.

    Progarchives says "Panta Rei were a Swedish Psych Prog band that released one fantastic self-titled album in 1973. Their sole album, which features a eye catching cover, is filled with tripped out and blistering fuzz guitar, and a jazzy flair complete with flutes, saxophone and various percussion and drumming".

    http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2192

    https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/panta-rei/panta-rei/


  • omnifooomnifoo
    Just listened and enjoyed Panta Rei.  Nice and playful.
  • confusedconfused
    Mudang Rouge  (The Free Music Archive)
      
    live @ Tonic 7/26/05                                         Live at the Stone 9/15/09
      
    Mysterious Ritual Possession                              Fantasy Horizon

    MEMBERS:
    • Chuck Bettis - electronics & throat
    • Jerry Lim - kayagum & guitars
    • Evan Rapport - alto saxophone, tanbur, & clarinet
    • special guest: Josh Blair - drums
    The Totem Pole of the avant garde:  Rapport (the teacher), Lim (the creative wind), Bettis (the destroyer).  All 3 have been playing music for over 2 decades with and without each other.   Mudang Rouge surfaced as a personal necessity to explore the unknown, particularly shamanistic music of the modern day.   
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