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I've been web surfing and I've found Free music!

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:21:03 -0700

That means I am getting next to nothing done today, so I've been web surfing. I found MUSIC! Free music.... and my music finding started with the blog of SaReGaMa Music. From that page: "I've been asked many times how come that I'm distributing my music for free and not trying to sell it. Well, music is something that I enjoy to do, it's a hobby, I will do it regardless if I'm getting paid for that or not and if anyone could benefit from my works I'd be pleased. You are free to share, copy, distribute, transmit and remix my music as long as it stays FREE." There is a donation link on the blog if you are so inclined to help fund more music and new instruments.

If you like world music you really need to follow my links.

People ask me all the time what kind of music I listen to when making art... besides Amir Beso and Jesse Cook, this music will be added to my list. I like rhythmical music, a flow that lets me get detached from noises around me. This music delivers it. More than that, I like it enough to send the artist some money to encourage them to keep making music.

From that blog I jumped to their download link to Jamendo, and I downloaded some clips... I LOVE "Fly Agaric Trance" and "The Shore"! (The Fly Trance one starts a tad slow for my tastes, but overall it is a very happy piece, the mouth harp and didgeridoo in it is outstanding).

If your own tastes go in different directions, the choices on Jamendo are far from limited...all the music is free to download, but I encourage you to donate to the artists you like so they can afford to keep making music... sorta on an informal "pay for great performance" plan.

I actually think I might have found Jamendo before and posted about it, it seems familiar to me, but that would have been on my dead computer, either way I am glad to have either discovered it... or to have rediscovered it.

I have been posting a ton of web art related finds on my main journal over at livejournal, reposting them all here will not fit into the schedule for today, if you are curious feel free to go peek at them over on my LiveJournal blog.

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Vox Hunt: Commercial Appeal

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:13:57 -0800

Audio/Video: Share a great use of a song in a commercial.
Not exactly what Vox asked for, but what the heck.... songs they should use in commercials is close enough in my book....

Eric O Shea: TV Commercials Need Better Songs

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QotD: My First Single

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:53:41 -0800

Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought?
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.

The Twist by Chubby Checker and it cost me under a dollar on a 45

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Vox Hunt: My Latest Download

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:57:42 -0700

Audio: Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded.

I'm not admitting to anything, I was in church, singing in the choir, making my own music, that's my story and I'm sticking to it

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Finding my calm through Ozzy Osborne

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:33:01 -0700

I posted the lyrics yesterday to this Ozzy song on my LiveJournal, but the words mean less without the music:
With the world at large AND my own world in turmoil, this song touched me, and haunted me all night as I slept so I wanted to share it in the big picture....it's on my list of things to convert to an art quilt now... you really DO need to listen to it. I had no idea he had this kind of depth in him.....

Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer

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My life in song.....

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:46:38 -0800

Becky Chace (RI) - Used Cars

I was having the worst morning. I figured out that after the bills are paid I am going to have less than $50 left to my name, that's to make it through the next 2 weeks... so I was in the middle of a full fledged pity me my endless struggle party when I got an email via isound asking me to check out the music of Becky Chace. I clicked the link...and heard my life being sung in song. It's a catchy tune, and Becky has a smooth full-bodied voice that draws you into her music, IMHO she's worth a long listen. I found other MP3s by her online... she has a really broad range to her music from folk to blues-y/jazz. I'm betting she makes a huge name for herself.So here I am, sharing her music with anyone who wanders through my blog as my little way of helping her along... one struggler to another, because most of us struggle in this life, some of us to survive and some of us to be heard...and if I can help Becky be heard or sell a CD or two, it's a good thing...

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Chris Rea doing what he does best

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:25:21 -0800

Chris Rea-The Road to Hell

He's smooth like a great cup of coffee.... and he has never been appreciated enough in the states. A true master guitar musican... The first video is my favorite song by him, the second video is slower moving, but haunting... and it really shows what he is made of...

Chris Rea - Nothing to fear

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Music I like...a LOT

nobody@vox.com(dejablu503) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:08:58 -0800

Amir Beso
schuylerfisk
Terra Naomi
Anna Nalick