Michael Sandler: archive.org myspace
Farther From Home - archive.org release
ambient, drones
Spring is here. Time for another reset. I'll be returning to San Francisco soon, after spending a winter on Vancouver Island. It's always an adjustment switching homes.
I scanned drone on archive.org -- lots to listen to there. Today's reset is an hour-long guitar drone piece:
RIAA won a worst company in America contest. Halliburton came second: taxpayers are pouring billions down Halliburton's throat, but somehow RIAA is even worse than that. Meanwhile, RIAA says that students are settling piracy claims, but university of Nebraska wants RIAA to pay up for wasting it's time.
The Copyright Board decided to review the webcaster royalties decision.
The San Jose Mercury News profiled Brazil's Minster of Culture, Gilberto Gil, who happens to be performing in the Bay Area.
Nic Bommarito - Taciturn - 12rec.037 -
I heard Nic Bommarito's music on the BlocSonic Volume 3 compilation... enough to get me listening to all of Taciturn. It's all good -- I'd have picked one of these for the compilation:
The Academic (Life and Afterlife)
Badly Asbestos Covered
Check out Nic Bommarito's blog -- there's a lot more music there, including this gem from the Paranormal is Normal EP:
My friend in Halifax pointed SeeqPod out to me. It's a web2 music site... think Hype Machine with saved/shared playlists like Streampad, and add music recommendations to that. When you're listening to something you like, click "music", and get a page of listening recommendations that you can add to your playlist. There's no links back to the music blogs but I think that's okay -- usually it's the music I'm after, not what somebody else says about the music.
Here's one the good folks
From EP1: My Sleep Machine
From Arms and Allocation:
Arms and Allocation
From Arms and Allocation:
Everything Was Gone
From EP2: JFK Samples
Video: Dichotomy from Arms and Allocation release
Musician turned policy maker,
Lawrence Lessig, a founder of the Creative Commons, explains the licensing system ... (this video from summer '06 -- but still timely)
Meanwhile, Slacker is in the pipeline: a satelite/internet radio/media player mashup service aiming for a $7.50 per month subscription. All that for the price of voice mail. I know what I'd pick -- I never really enjoyed voice mail anyway.
Tantrum,
from Scotland, have two releases on Floppy Records. Some samples from Advice To Users:
I particularly liked Emergency Poncho, that's exactly what the weather is like here on Vancouver Island at this time of year. Some lovely dreamy sounds from the earlier release, Maisie's Friend:
Fighting on at least four fronts right now: internet radio, file downloading, MP3 patents (hardware, software). And artists get less than a nickle of each dollar earned from downloads.
Too bad we can't just switch to OGG, that's half the battle right there. Meanwhile, the RIAA P2P Lawsuits website makes a good read -- check out the FAQ... RIAA still claims downloading kills CD sales. Right... as if they sell music we want to buy. I've noticed Amoeba has no trouble selling CDs.
The music and sounds of Observation Point (myspace) are inspired by the surroundings and atmospheres of Port Talbot, South Wales: abandoned buildings, decaying industry, looming hillsides and deserted beaches provide the backdrop to deep space collages, ambient rhythms and dark experiments. And it's all good, in fact, I've been listening to it all for days... here are highlights in the collection on the OUIM net label:
from Geometer: Brugel Artefacts
from Thought Paths Vol. 2: Breathing Space
Nobody Here, haunted abandoned buildings found in the undergrowth of South Wales:
new releases at
Archaic Horizon since I last looked... lovely drones and beautiful careful ambient listening from Sora Shima:Sora Shima - Distancing EP: Monsoon
Hills West spins lovely jazzy dreamy sounds on this track:
Hills West - Glare: Sonsun
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, sounded the alarm about the new royalty rules for streamed internet radio, and encourages all those who care about this to email their elected representatives. Here's a discussion of the legal implications, and the cost implications.
Maybe the future of internet radio is people sharing links to artists websites like Blue Foundation and Xploding Plastix -- hours of great listening there, not to mention, cool flash-y websites to browse.
That's if the greed based record industry people get their way. Check out savenetradio.org, find resources there to take a stand. Consider telling your friends about their public service announcement:
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