Breaking news: the jamendo application for Facebook is now up and running!

Synchronize your jamendo and Facebook accounts in just a few clicks, and let your friends on both sites know what music you’re discovering, sharing, playlisting…

Bets are running among the jamendo team as to how many users this great new application will have within a month. So get going: click on the Facebook link on the top right of your jamendo homepage and get sychronized!

Jamendo recently signed a partnership with the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA), based in Geneva, Switzerland. This association gathers 300,000 hotels and 8 million restaurants worldwide.

The aim is to promote Jamendo PRO with these numerous public places that might be interested in resorting to free music for their musical atmospheres.

We’re looking forward to what we hope will be a fruitful cooperation, for Jamendo PRO, the artists, hotel and restaurant owners, and for free music in general! In that respect, the Creative Commons blog just posted the news too.

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.

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!

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. 

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!

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“.

Groove Savor is a Swiss DJ who produces dance/house music. He has worked with many local electro artists, and you’ll find several singles, complete with various remix versions, on jamendo. 

Such as this one, “To The Beat“:

Lots of new albums published on jamendo, and a great quantity of electro artists this past week!

Below is our new selection of new releases, voluntarily electronic music-oriented. From deep to minimal, acid, 8bits, and even new wave!

Till next week..

DJ Esoph is a young abstract hip hop producer from Rome is very active in the local underground scene. He joined jamendo a few months ago with an album chock-full of relaxed and bouncy beats, the aptly named “Beat Source vol. 1“. Check it out.