J Burn

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/J_Burn/
http://jburnmusic.com/

"Jay Burn is a singer, songwriter from the San Francisco Bay Area. With influences ranging from The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash to Neil Young, Tom Petty and more eclectic ones, like Sparklehorse. Jack Johnson and Foy Vance are a couple of the contemporary musicians he has been compared to."

Plastic Flowers

Plastic Flowers are a dream pop duo based in Thessaloniki, Greece and were founded in 2011 by George Samaras and Tim Charisis, who was later replaced by Angelos Paschalidis.

They are experimenting with tape machines to cut up samples and record their own tracks. Some of their main characteristics is the lo-fi sound and the heavy use of analog synthesizers, reverbed guitars and cheap drum machines.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Plastic_Flowers/

Radio Free Culture #58: White Market Podcast with Rute Correia

photo courtesy of Rute Correia. Used with permission.

http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Radio_Free_Culture_58_White_Market_Podcast_with_Rute_Correia

WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to bring you a fresh episode of Radio Free Culture, a bi-weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts. 

In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke to Rute Correia, the host of theWhite Market Podcast and curator for the White Market Podcast (formerly in Portuguese, the Programa Marca Branca) here on the Free Music Archive. We talked about her musical tastes, a little about the history of the podcast, and some of Rute's favorite netlabels. 

Check out the podcast on WFMU, PRX, or subscribe to the Radio Free Culture on iTunes... or listen below!

A fine Free Music Archive playlist

http://freemusicarchive.org/member/LCL/blog/LCL_celebrates_its_9th_birthday_with_FMA_

LCL celebrates its 9th birthday with FMA !

"9 years from now, same day, we released our first EP. What a long travel we all made ! How many enriching encounters, experiences, parties, discoveries… Here is a very special Free Music Archive mixtape to celebrate the 9 years of the label ! 45 tracks ranging widely, mostly Dub & reggae, but also bits of post rock, folk, hiphop, ambient, electronics and even french chanson…"

Take a trip from the origins to the present of LCL netlabel !

Artist Revenue Streams Project

http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Radio_Free_Culture_47_Music_Economics_101_with_Kristin_Thomson

WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to bring you a fresh episode of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts.

In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke toKristin Thomson, a primary researcher on the Artist Revenue Streams project with the Future of Music Coalition, about how the ways artists have made money has changed in the wake of the Web. You can read along with some of the findings in this slide deck: “Ten ways that technology-driven changes have impacted musicians.”

Archive of Contemporary Music

Radio Free Culture #45: Two Copies of Every Record: The Archive of Contemporary Music with Bob George

photo by Eilon Paz. Used with permission.

WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to bring you a fresh episode of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts. 

In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke to Bob George, the Director (and a founder) of the Archive of Contemporary Music, currently located in NYC, about the collection and a new partnership with the Internet Archive. 

Check out the podcast on WFMU, PRX, or subscribe to the Radio Free Culture on iTunes. Or listen here: 

Steffen Basho-Junghans

July 16 2014 / 16 de julio 2014

What first called my attention about this guitarist was the Basho in his name. Naturally, I assumed he must be closely related to the amazing immortal Robbie Basho, but that is not the case, as the bio below explains.


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LOCATION:Germany

ACTIVE:1979 - present

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Steffen Basho-Junghans (born Steffen Junghans in 1953) is a German guitarist and composer. He was born in North Thuringia in the former German Democratic Republic. At the age of 17 he taught himself to play acoustic guitar and in 1978 formed the folk band Wacholder. In 1979, influenced by the American guitarist Leo Kottke, he began performing solo instrumental music on 6- and 12-stringJohn Fahey's Takoma Records label. During this period he discovered the music of Robbie Basho, and consequently became interested in Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Bashō, who had influenced Robbie Basho. Steffen Junghans incorporated the name 'Basho' into his own, as a mark of respect. Throughout the 1980s he lectured on acoustic guitar history and performed numerous concerts. guitar. Throughout the 1980s he became influenced by artists on

Steffen Basho-Junghans has released recordings on the German label Blue Moment Arts; the American labels Sublingual,Strange AttractorsLocust; the Italian label Sillyboy; the Australian label Preservation; and Kning Disk in Sweden, appears on several compilations. His music, unorthodox explorations between traditions and experimentation, is influenced by North American Indian, Asian, New music and European classical music.

WFMU, radio the way it's meant to be

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WEB SITE:http://wfmu.org

REGISTERED:12/03/2008

CONTRIBUTIONS:22843

PLAYLISTS CREATED:17

Originally posted on July 31 2014

WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest runningfreeform radio station in the United States.

The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog.

Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a largeinternational following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station.

WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.

All of the station's programming is controlled by individual DJs and is not beholden to any type of station-wide playlist or rotation schedule. Experimentation, spontaneity and humor are among the station's most frequently noted distinguishing traits. WFMU does not belong to any existing public radio network, and close to 100% of its programming originates at the station.

Radio Free Culture: Player Piano

http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Radio_Free_Culture_Player_Piano

"Piano rolls in the rack - 88 NOTE L63 80739 (P), Standard American Airs, Arranged by George Rosey, M'f'd by The Universal Music Co. U.S.A., For THE AUTOPIANO COMPANY, NEW YORK" by yaquina. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to present a new season of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts. This episode completes the Player Piano: The First Digital Music Revolution two-part show. Get your history fix this week via your newfangled technology!

Check out the podcast here, or subscribe to the podcast here (via iTunes).

Field Recordings from India

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a collection of field recordings from India

The music here was recorded by myself between mid-Aug./mid-Oct. 2008 with a mini-disc player and a Sony multi-directional stereo mic. The areas covered are: Assame (mostly Guwahati) in the country's overlooked NE, Darjeeling, Varanassi and 4 places in Rajasthan (Udaipur, Jodphur, Pushkar and most importantly, Jaisalmer, in the region's western desert). 

I'm not an ethno-musicologist, but have been fanatical about folk music from all over the world since I first heard a recording of Burundian drummers when I was about 17 ( I then got to see such a troup perform while living in Morocco in the late 90's). I've tried to snag a few examples of local music in many places I've traveled, but India was almost overwhelming, and performers were absolutely comfortable with an obvious tourist/foreigner waving a microphone, even when I was running down the street chasing after a parade band, as I did on tracks 21 (Pushkar) & parts of the collage I made on track 24 (Varanassi). It was always some god or other's birthday, or there was some other reason to celebrate, which meant music flowed through the streets. In Jaisalmer, there was a duo who sang and beat drums every morning at sunrise as they strolled the town. In Pushkar, horn and drum bands wandered through the less tourist-soaked sections and played songs for new-born babies (5, 28, 36). Temple bells and sanskrit chanting permeated Varanassi's ghats at dawn and again well after dark. Track 1 is a collage I made of sounds that happen every single morning at the Assi Ghat.Track 24 has some more examples of this as well.

- Bruce Miller

In order to read more, and to hear and download the amazing sounds he recorded, go to this link:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broos/Field_Recordings_from_India


Esto fue originalmente posteado el 17 de septiembre 2014

Escuchando a Marco Benevento

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WEB SITE:http://marcobenevento.com…

LOCATION:Brooklyn, NY

Marco Benevento, a pianist, organist and composer from Brooklyn, has been a member of the New York jazz and experimental music scene since 1999. Benevento weaves effected piano, Hammond Organ, Wurlitzers and Electric Pianos through a variety of loop and effects pedals into beautifully orchestrated musical pieces puncuated by cuicut bending glitches and complimentary reverbs.

The Droplift Project - ¡Sampleo descontrolado!

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Various_Artists_Droplift/The_Droplift_Project

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THE DROPLIFT PROJECT
thirty masterworks of audio collage,
media appropriation, and other illegal tricks
for those who can HEAR the difference

Chances are, if you bought this disc in a store, it wasn't there because the store owner put it there. Once we had these CD's printed, we went into record stores in selected locations the world over, leaving copies in the bins for you to find. We used this "droplift" technique in order to protest the current state of copyright law in this country.

Why? Because our art is composed largely of uncleared samples. Each artist on this CD is involved in a relationship with media appropriation, found sound, and the art of collage.

Hi and Ho, We Plant Trees - Música para gente que siembra árboles

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RELEASED:March 17th, 2008

RECORDED:December 1st, 2009

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• Experimental Pop

LENGTH:01:27:42

LABEL:Peppermill Records

This album is a collection of old and new songs done by treeplanters, about treeplanting, and for the most part, for other treeplanters.

Not that everyone isn't welcome to bask in our nostalgia, but to truly appreciate these tunes, one must actively take part in this silvi-culture.  Other than a few exceptions, the artists who took part are veterans of the Canadian planting scene.  These campfire classics are inspired by long days out on the "block", working through the bugs and the rain and the difficult terrain and then coming back to camp, hot food, showers, and the companionship of the other boys and girls who help replant our country's vast forests every Spring/Summer. 

Below you'll find the album of course, as well as a photo gallery from Hugh Stimson, a planting slang dictionary if the need arises to look up a word or phrase while listening to the songs, and also you'll find links to some other websites if you want to read further.  And if you're really curious... come join us in the bush next season!

- Peppermill Records

Radio Free Culture Podcast

http://freemusicarchive.org/member/lizb/blog/Radio_Free_Culture_Podcast_Returns

lizb on 09/08/2014 at 03:45PM

Radio Free Culture Podcast Returns

WFMU and the Free Music Archive are proud to present a new season of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts. Our season opener is a two-part interview with FMA pal Elliot Harmon, Communications Manager at Creative Commons. We couldn't have imagined a better way to bring back Radio Free Culture than to take a look at the current state of affairs at our favorite alternative licensing operation.

Check out the first episode here, or subscribe to the podcast here (via iTunes).

Punky Donch on the Free Music Archive

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As inexplicable as their name, is their style: a mix of Roots/Reggae with some Caribbean flavor, Hip Hop and a pinch of Rock, which makes them a reggae fusion band. What they have in common is that the most musicians have an Antillean heritage, but what makes them unique is the combination of talented individuals with different upbringings and musical backgrounds. Currently the band consists of members from Aruba, Curacao, Netherlands and Surinam and is based in The Netherlands. The blend of their diversity in style and similarity in culture creates the incomparable Punky Donch sound.

Discovering Steve Anderson

I had never heard of Steve Anderson until today. Now I know his music thanks to the Free Music Archive. Check out the link below for an interview and a free download of his latest album.

Steve Anderson - Late Night Girl

Steve Anderson - Late Night Girl (Studio 11 Classics)

As a major contributor to the Studio 11 music engineering team, Steve Anderson has also found time to produce his own collection of top notch tunes. Not only does Steve have a fabulous voice, he is a consumate musical producer as well. Of the innovative collections that Steve has produced, his album "Late Night Girl" best sums up his vocal abilities and production skills.

We caught up with Steve for a brief interview covering music life and music making in the same