Celebrate with Your Heroes

UPDATE 2019-01-31: Event documentation now available online.
Photo Album, Video of Afternoon Program (Program in HD), Early Audio of Quantopia by DJ Spooky, Quantopia Video Trailer, Quantopia Performance Program, Quantopia Student Engagement Materials

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Oprah's Free Holiday Compilation

Oprah Winfrey is on board with free and legal music sharing with her Holiday Hits 2008. Okay, it is Oprah, but this comp has big names on it like Aretha, Harry Connick Jr., Brian McKnight and Tony Bennett. C'mon, folks, that makes it worthwhile, right? Non-christian friends, there are some secular winter selections on there for you, too.

Everyone, this eight song CD complete with cover and CD artwork is available for only a couple of days. It is part of Oprah's Have a Thrifty Holiday special. Learn how to have the thriftiest holiday ever on her website.

Oddio Overplay, Jamendo, Internet Archive's Netlabels collection and Free Albums Galore are great places to find whole albums that you can burn to CDs and share with family and friends for the holidays. They are all free, legally shared selections.

While seriously pro FREE MUSIC, we ask you to remember the musical artists who made 2008 a wonderful year for you. Make a donation on their website or purchase their music, t-shirts and gear. Remember to share the love with those who have brought you so much joy. Also, you might add them to your Amazon.com wishlist. Have you seen their new UNIVERSAL WISH LIST feature? It is awesome! It lets you go to the websites selling music by the artists you love and add their CDs with just a click! How cool is that?

Here's to a new year of great music!

Tuesday's Dozen

First in months, here is the freshest Tuesday dozen, straight from the oven

Lilliput Orkestra Love this French jazz quartet "who plays personal compositions between jazz, rock, electronic and popular music" (MySpace) [free jazz, post rock, prog]	Droopy Contini shares 2 delicious CDs, Surpriscording (solid, straight forward, hard bop) and Strikes Back! (swinging bop) [jazz, hard bop, swing]	DIY-note - Ruptures several tracks on this warm demo from France have been favorites in our home for years, especially "El Despertar" [post-rock, acoustic rock]
James Kochalka Superstar accomplished American comic book artist and writer who is also a rock musician shares many of his tunes and ramblings [pop, rock]	MonsterK7 in French sounds like monster cassette, "a little indie label fond of beautiful musical objects," dedicated to cassette tape preservation [varied]	Un Ode au Toy Piano MonsterK7 presents an international, 19-song comp celebrating the toy piano with some real pros, such as Twink [rock, pop, post-rock, cabaret]
20 Bands in a Box La Magic Box puts together annual comps of their favorite indie artists, most from France [pop, rock, France]	Brian Ellis Trustworthy CD (2005), myspace, official site [folk, psychedelic, acoustic, electro]	A Découvrir Absolument this magazine shares their own series of comps featuring today's French artists [France, folk, pop, post-rock, electro]
French Comps 01audio-video.com offers up their series of compilations showcasing modern French artists [France, folk, pop, post-rock, electro, chanson]	Aaahh-Records little German netlabel billing itself as offering "free and charming music," and they are right! [folk, acoustic, indie, pop]	Barbagallo busy in Sicily writing and performing "indie; acoustic; low-fi... alternative; experimental; prog; alt folk" check his rearranged Satie works

Tuesday's Dozen

Steam Powered Preservation Society a non-profit, electronic library dedicated to the preservation of Americana music [country, string, bluegrass, folk]	Wandering Ear a promising netlabel dedicated to releasing field recordings from around the world, making for great fieldtrips for the imagination [field]	Mombojó a fantastic, young, DIY, Brazilian pop group who is earning a name for themselves as an independent with free releases [pop, rock, indie, Brazil]]
Quarkspace - Drop psychedelia in the spaced out Pink Floyd vein, this third studio CD address cons of consumerism, so the band gives this one for free [psych, pop, rock]	Vic Bondi iconic guitarist singer- songwriter for Articles of Faith, Jones Very, Alloy, Report Suspicious Activity and Weatherman [punk, hardcore, rock]	aitänna77 Mikel Martínez of Spain treats classic instruments with digital tools resulting in "kind of lo-fi folk with a pop feeling, ambient touch and weird structures."
Carl Hu charming writing and performances from gifted and remarkably humble pianist and composer [classical]	Sylvain Bouix live clarinet performances from doctor at Harvard Psychiatry Neuro Imaging Lab and the Lab of Math in Imaging [classical]	Children of the Drone Exeter, UK-based improvisational collective with a pleasing collection of recordings [experimental]
Dwelling of Duels at VGMix game soundtrack competitions, main instrument hand played and other tracks can be programmed [soundtrack]	Free Band Music John Thompson shares recordings and scores of his arrangements and originals of band music on his site for free [marching band, concert band]	Marcel Cuypers Dutch multi- instrumentalist, predom clarinetist, shares works from his diverse prog, neoclassical and art groups [varied]

Tuesday's Dozen

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists! [This is the first Tuesday Dozen of 2008?! Goodness gracious the Oddio crew has been busy this year.]

Mabafu - Bahia Aleman German producer's release features seven delish lounge songs with latin influences [downbeat, jazz]	Lemonworld and Friends music performed by visual and musical artist Jonathan Lemon [pop, space age, fun]	Lemon Beats comp French Zeste netlabel gathers some winners on this tasty sampler compilation [electronica]
Moontribe DJ collaborative showcases several mixes by each of their mixmasters and guests [electro, dance, techno, trance, house, groove]	John Carmichael's Ceilidh Band enjoy full tracks from each of this Scottish accordion champion's CDs [[Scottish, folk]	Billie the Vision and the Dancers share three complete pop albums bearing a Cake-like folk-pop flavor (myspace) [Swedish, indie, pop, powerpop]
The Museum of Modern Art NYC's MoMA offers 3 years of archived audio for special exhibits plus 6 ongoing audio programs about modern art [spoken, radio]	Taylor Singletary - Do You Copy? electro ambient soundtrack to the independent film made in 25 days, Do You Copy? [electro, film music]	Transom.org "an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing... and encouraging more" [spoken, radio]
Max Krimmel - Zubenelgenubi early solo guitar recordings (plus two others) by a visual artist whose varied works are in museums like the Smithsonian [acoustic, guitar]	Cuatro Caminos this "Mariachi- Dub- Outer- Space band" melds funk, soul and rock with a Latin twist and Zappa-esque moments [rock, funk, dub, mariachi]	Sonic Youth longtime leaders of the alt rock realm share a rotating selection of their works in their archives [punk, noise, experi, no wave, alternative rock]

Free Sample Zone Mirror

Chenard Walcker is the prolific visual and musical collage artist who operated the Free Sample Zone netlabel with 50+ releases available for download. When that domain expired, OddioOverplay.com created this mirror for the netlabel with the hope that Chenard's work will reach more listeners.

Chenard is slowly recovering from a coma. His family and friends report that he is not physically suffering, but that chances are that he will remain hospitalized indefinitely.

"Chenard Walcker is a French samplecore artist layering large slabs of pop music, obscure funk, soundtracks, etc. The site offers many albums worth of material as free downloads, as an anti-copyright stance. He also publishes the Free Sample Zone, which is all his material under several monikers...." -- official website


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Organ Hemorrhaging Sonar and James Taylor?

UPDATE, January 2008: Letter from NRDC President 8 January 2008

James Taylor is asking concerned Americans to urge the U.S. Navy to abandon its proposal to put a training range for lethal mid-frequency sonar right next to a key migratory route for endangered right whales. Scientists have linked the use of mid-frequency sonar to hundreds of whale strandings and deaths around the world.

Navy warships use underwater speakers during routine sonar testing and training that blast the ocean with noise up to 245 decibels -- a sonic barrage roughly comparable to a Saturn V rocket at blast-off. That onslaught is so intense it can drive whales to panic and cause their organs to hemorrhage. Act now

(The National Resources Defense Council Action Fund will never keep, use or share the email addresses. This is the 2nd Blogio post on this concern this year. You can find the previous post here with more info and recordings.)

Me, I'm not a big James Taylor fan, but here are some "oceanic" sounds I do enjoy. After you visit the NRDC for a few secs to add your vote to Secretary Winter, please come back here to check out these releases:

	Nelson Eddy with music by Ken Darby - The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met a classic children's 78rpm set from the good people of KiddieRecords.com
	dotTAPEdot - Sea-Scaping Monthly in 4 or 5 Movements ".Tape. is 26 year old Daniel Romero from Asturias, Spain. He wears glasses, likes playing with toy instruments such as the casio pt88, toy accordion, and a toy spanish guitar. He uses a very simple sequencer and records his toy instruments with a simple pc microphone. Bringing together his love for lo-fi indie pop with his love for melodic electro-pop, .tape. creates a unique story-book landscape..."
	Vreemde Geluiden Radio Program - Splogman's offshore radio show a show dedicated to water; also enjoy VA - Water, Wind and Sails by artists gathered together at the amazing Splogman's 52 Weeks to create a cool compilation celebrating water that was then released on WM Recordings</td>
	- Herzog - Ocean! Be Our Blanket Keywords: herzog; Bill Bawden; 12rec; 12rec.net; electronic; electroacoustic; ambient
	D.soul - Ocean Keywords: Electronic; House; Minimal House; Techno; Minimal Techno; Bumpfoot.net netlabel
	Woody Woodpecker Presents... - Whopper Whale story [1957] a short little tale about a proud whale with nothing to do whatsoever with Woody

Tuesday's Dozen

Tuesday is a real good news day. Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

The Zverstvo uninhibited vocals, rock and jazz instrumentation and a dose of mental illness [avant-garde, experi, post-punk, avant-jazz]	The Folkways Collection 24 one-hour explorations of the music, words, and sounds that make up Smithsonian's Folkways Recordings) [varied]	Bird Lantern - DuD EP of choice cuts from the Epic Dud LP by these 2 men from Adelaide, Australia who mix sampling and real instrumentation (myspace) [hip hop, pop, blues]
Mighty Shiny "recorded eleven furious power-pop anthems... we want you to hear it, so here's a digital version you can download for free" (preview at myspace) [indie, pop, rock]	Cattywompus in the US Southern rock tradition, one reviewer writes, "is Black Crowes meets Small Faces meets Waylon Jennings meets Tom Petty meets Gram Parsons" [classic rock]	Pierre Laniau - Erik Satie Pieces pour Guitare Laniau performing guitar renditions of selected works by composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), Pierre's official site
Konfort Records "exclusive releases from some of our favorite Mexican electronic artists... from deep house to ambient, idm, minimal techno and more" [electro, Mexico]	Olga Scotland - Scotland Yard quirky instro album from Olga, a Russian musician and member of Zen-Zen-Zen [lounge, experi, electro, world]	The Octopus Project Austin rockers melding rock instruments, computer effects, mathematical arrangements [rock, post-rock, electro]
Re:Up Mix Brooklyn's The Agriculture teamed up with a mag to offer label sampler [downtempo, dance, chill out, breaks, dub, hip hop]	John Zealey - Notes From Number 14 Bowie-esque singer- songwriter offers download of entire demo album or preview and download separate tracks at last.fm [pop, rock, indie]	Kiff'On these Frenchmen were born funky (né funky) and that is just what they aptly named the free EP they share (myspace) [funk, disco, brass]

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