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Archive for October, 2009

L’artiste de la semaine #17

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Ils sont très connus chez eux, en Suède ; leur musique ne ressemble à rien de ce qu’on peut connaître, mêlant metal, jazz, musique gitane, swing, rock et une bonne demi douzaine d’autres styles ; et ils sont l’un des groupes les plus populaires sur jamendo.

L’artiste de cette semaine est Diablo Swing Orchestra.  Nous sommes d’autant plus heureux de contaster le succès de leur album sur jamendo que leur musique d’un autre monde et échappant à toute catégorisation colle parfaitement avec tout ce que représente ce site : la découverte et la diversité.

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Featured artist of the week, #17

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

They are quite big at home in Sweden; their music is like no other, mixing together metal, jazz, gypsy folk, swing, rock and half a dozen other genres; and they are also one of the most popular artists on jamendo.

This week’s featured artist is Diablo Swing Orchestra. We’re all the more thrilled to see the response their music is receiving on jamendo, ever since they joined us last summer, as their out-of-this-world, beyond all possible categorization music matches exactly what this site is all about: discovery and diversity.

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L’artiste de la semaine #16

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Arthur Pope est un nouveau venu sur jamendo. Son album “From Thorns to Roses” a été mis en ligne la semaine dernière seulement.

Songwriter américain originaire de St Louis, le son de Pope est acoustique et dépouillé, mais ses chansons sont pleines d’émotion et de sincérité. Et avec un nom comme le sien, il ne vous surprendra pas de savoir que ses textes ont une coloration religieuse (désolé, le jeu de mot était trop tentant).

Quoi qu’il en soit, bienvenue Arthur!

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Featured artist of the week, #16

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Arthur Pope is a newcomer on jamendo. His album “From Thorns to Roses” was uploaded only a week ago.

An American songwriter from St Louis, Pope’s sound is acoustic and bare, but his songs are heartfelt and emotional. And with a name like his, it won’t come as a surprise that he he adds a christian element to his lyrics (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun).

Welcome Arthur!

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Jamendo on The Creative Uncommons

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

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Yesterday, the CC-themed blog The Creative Uncommons published a long interview of our very own Chief of music, Patrick Haour. Now, we’re not sure we really qualify as the “orange world eater” the site calls jamendo, but it’s always nice to get some recognition in the free music world, so thank you TCUC!

Go ahead and read it, it’s right here

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Concert à Paris ce weekend !

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Si vous êtes à Paris ou dans les environs, ne manquez pas dimanche soir l’occasion d’aller applaudir l’un des artistes les plus fidèles de jamendo depuis fort longtemps: Eclectek.

Le groupe lillois se produira ce dimanche 18 octobre à La Scène Bastille (Paris 11e), à partir de 20h. Eclectek partagera la scène avec Alarash et Nutcase.

Prix des places: 12€ sur place, 10€ en prévente (Fnac, Digitick, Virgin). Notez aussi qu’avec le pass Télérama, vous pouvez bénéficier d’une place offerte pour une place achetée.

Une grande soirée de rock-funk-hip hop extravagant en perspective !

Plus d’informations sur la page Facebook de l’événement.

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Featured artist of the week, #15

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Professor Kliq, aka Mike, a young hip electronic music producer from Chicago, has been a favorite on jamendo for awhile. The reason we’re featuring him this week is because he entirely re-uploaded his stack of available tracks on jamendo.

The good news is there’s now more Professor Kliq available for free download than ever, now neatly wrapped up in two soberly titled albums: “Community Service” and “Community Service II“. From what we understand, the former is some kind of a “best of”, the latter a B-sides and rarities collection. 

And he’s still one of the best electro artists on jamendo, so enjoy!

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L’artiste de la semaine #15

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Professor Kliq, aka Mike, un jeune producteur de musique électronique de Chicago, est un des artistes les plus populaires de jamendo depuis belle lurette. La raison pour laquelle nous en parlons cette semaine, c’est qu’il a entièrement remis en ligne son catalogue disponible sur jamendo.

La bonne nouvelle, c’est qu’il y a maintenant plus de Professor Kliq que jamais disponible en téléchargement gratuit, désormais soigneusement réparti en deux albums: ”Community Service” et “Community Service II“. D’après ce que nous avons compris, le premier est une sorte de best of, le second une collection de faces B et raretés.

Quoi qu’il en soit, il demeure l’un des meilleurs artistes electro sur jamendo, alors bonne écoute !

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Millionaire Blonde su All Music!

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Cari musicisti, pare che le cose, anche in Italia, finalmente, stiano cambiando. Non serve necessariamente avere un contratto milionario con una Major discografica o una produzione/promozione imponente e molto costosa per dare la giusta visibilità ad una band meritevole di successo. Servono grinta, talento e una buona dose di determinazione, doti che certo non mancano alle Millionaire Blonde. Proprio da Jamendo, in licenza Copyleft “Creative Commons”, è partita la distribuzione on-line di “Se Ne Va, primo singolo della band; trasformato in un video in programmazione sulla rete nazionale italiana, in chiaro, “All Music”, all’interno di due trasmissioni: “Night RMX” e “All Music Loves Italy”, da Luglio 2009; creando un avvenimento senza precedenti, il primo brano Copyleft ad andare in programmazione su una rete televisiva nazionale. Che altro dire? non ci resta che augurare alla band tutto il successo che merita e augurarci di sentire presto qui su Jamendo i brani ai quali stanno lavorando.

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An experimental video for experimental music

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Hox Vox is a progressive rock project by Italian artist Gianluca Missero. His track “Zimniy Vorets (the Winter Palace)” is an experimental piano piece evoking the Russian revolution. 

The video that goes with it is an interesting assemblage of old footage from the early 20th century and animated film made with collages, set in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Not your typical pop music video; then again, Hox Vox’s stuff isn’t your typical pop music either.

Enjoy the weird atmosphere emanating from the whole thing below. This is taken from the album “Outskirt“.

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