Music links 2007, archived section of music links list.
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January 2007
So, if you like different music, see what Jeff Harrington
has made for
you. Combinations like violin+piano, flute+bassoon+piano or even
flute+viola+harp, nervous syncopated rhythms and musical substance
somewhere betweenchamber music and jazz build up the ambience. The
sound quality is less than you'd expect from a 128 kbit mp3, and the
instruments are synth samples rather than real stuff.
In
Digitalmusic weblog you can find a list of artists and some
mp3:s,
too. Many of them make videos, and you should have a reasonably fast
connection to run them smoothly.
February 2007
Jamendo
has a
playlist-oriented player, which is very simple to use. I usually prefer
basic download mp3 and listen system even if I have to wait for the
download, but the player is a pleasure to use: just click and listen.
To
download you'll have to use BitTorrent (or just record the stream).
They make some use of advertising, but the ads behave themselves and
actually you might find some of them useful. Nothing is blinking or
jumping at you face. Jamendo boasts with over 2000 albums, several
songs each, and some 80000 active members, yeah, this is big and still
growing. The music is under Creative Commons licenses. Donations are
accepted in case you like it.
Suicide
Squeeze Records is an indie record label and on-line music
shop, in
case you are ready to pay for your music. For hitch-hikers they have
some free samples and not just crops and clips but full-length songs
with decent sound quality. Despite of the label name, the music I found
was quite merry and rock-ish.
Maeve
Gilchrist in Myspace gives you four beautiful songs with a
harp, an
electric bass, percussions and her charming voice (and that Scottish
accent, just love it). Her album is available at CD-Baby,
if they have it in stock, but it may happen that I buy one in front of
your nose. And there are some
more samples here, especially if you
prefer
the acoustic bass. --- 26 feb 2007 I have actually ordered
Maeve's album from CD Baby. I will tell when I have it. --- On 6 mar
2007 I received my CD in good condition. It took a week and a day to
travel.
See a review
of Maeve Gilchrist
Trio's album Reaching Me.
April 2007
In case you are around Tampere, don't miss this: Irtamus show in
Sampola on
Sunday 22 April 2007 15:00. Especially for friends of Irish dancing and
music. Sampola is the modern school building near the junction of
streets: Itsenäisyydenkatu, Kalevan puistotie, Teiskontie, and
Sammonkatu.
If you have sturdy guts, you might want to give a try to this: Urban
Crow in Youtube.
I just read a warning about a website FastMP3search (no full url given
here). They promise mp3:s to you, they try to seduce you to download
and install a plugins, which actually contains dangerous malware.
Please note: you don't need any plugins to play mp3:s. If they insist,
they are talking bullshit. Read more in Stopbadware.
So, in case you missed Fáinne
Óir Anns, the Irtamus show in Sampola, some
notions. Few
seats were empty: a helthy amount of audience was present. There were
an orchestra of five and so many dancers, you can not put any more on
that stage without cramming. Green dancers, purple dancers, black
dancers and a group seemingly from the other side of the Big Water.
Virpi Miljar was wearing dragon-red velvet and her duet tap-dance with
Asko Saarinen was awesome, cunning and witty. A little later in her
solo Virpi was like a leaping spirit of fire. Towards the end the great
many tap-dancers got more punch and finally everybody went into a big
ring for the finale.
July 2007
Another music sharing website is Kahvi.
(Kahvi is coffee in
Finnish, but I have not yet found out, what is the Finnish connection
here - or the coffee connection either.)
Most of the time I have not found Finnish music especially fascinating.
However, now I think I have got something: Uzva
plays
interesting instrumental music and you can download samples and all of
Afrodite. Uzva means nothing, but reminds the word 'usva', which is
light fog.
I read searching music is dangerous and even far more dangerous than
searching porn. So, this seems to be extreme sports. The worst keywords
are bearshare, limewire, kazaa and winmx. Try something else, instead.
Keep your computer armoured. Update your software regularly, the
operating system, the antivirus and antimalware programs, the browser
and the music player (Winamp or whatever you use). Make sure, ActiveX
is not enabled for all the internet, perhaps don't use IE for music
browser at all (Perhaps, don't use an operating system with W in the
beginning at all). And use a restricted account to search music rather
than the administrator's. Search for your favorite artist in Myspace,
then follow the fiend chains for whatever seems interesting, rather
than hitting "kazaa" into Google.
August 2007
Check Black
Audio's
website, get their free S. It's said rock, but there is strong groove
influence. At times, it is even meditative. Their vocals are lacking
certain transparency, hopefully they can afford a better microphone
some day.
October 2007
Listen to the samples from Tim Fatchen's
website. Some peaceful and serene samples. His Music
Download
address is even better place to enjoy. His music is solo piano, piano
with synths, piano with something. This makes the color range a bit
narrow, however, there are other assets in it. Blues
for Laurel is ragtime style and I guess, a little
tounge-in-cheek. April Monday
hovers in bright and light atmosphere. Le
Moulin Du Bruel, Ginals has a marvellous, sweet melody.
The sound quality is a little fuzzy, but I know good gadgets are
expensive.
December 2007
Three songs by Liisa Tuhkanen.
Too popish to my taste, but you might like it. Try.
Essentia
has some mp3:s to download for you. Their music is actually horrendous.
Anyway, it's well done horrendous, if you like metal. Follow the link
"lataa ->" (=download), be careful with the link "tilaa"
(=order).
So, the
highlight of the year 2007 as music website is Jamendo. The
best music is Maeve Gilchrist Trio: I actually paid money to get the
album, it must be good. It is good.
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