Wednesday Wind-Down

This week's musical recommendations are:

The Perry Weissman 3, "3"


I attended their new cd release show on Friday and had a blast. This track is from their new album - made up of mostly horns, guitars, and a great bounce.

And Faws: "Blue Notes" EP (free download)


A blend of jazzy-samples like "My Funny Valentine" and electronic beats.

Music for Your Studio; Vol. 26

Yair Yona, "Remember" (download link - free and legal via bandcamp)

I'm anxious for fall, and this is the perfect soundtrack for it. I found it at Palmless Prayer. The artist's myspace page describes the sound as being "Armed with a 12 strings acoustic guitar, an intoxicated banjo and a cheeky Weissenborn, amongst other soaked instruments, Israel’s Yair Yona adapts his British Folk influences and his love for the groundbreaking guitar works of John Fahey, to a captivating trip down memory lane of the 1920s & 1930s Mississippi and Delta blues, country, rag-time and contemporary acid-folk."

If you've skipped over a couple of the Music for Your Studio feautures or the thunderstorm recording I posted a couple of weeks ago was too "out there" - don't miss this one. Seriously. Fantastic.

All is Wild, All is Silent

remembrance // balmorhea // all is wild, all is silent from Jared Hogan on Vimeo.

Music for Your Studio: Volume 3

DJ Dert has put up several so-called "beat-tape" albums including one that remixes Jose Gonzalez (that one's for you Alan) into laid back mostly-instrumental beats. Go to his myspace page where he has them up for free - click on the album cover and it will take you to a site to download them...Also - Wixel just posted his album for February called "Clouds". He is embarkign on a very ambitions project - making a album every month this year and releasing the physical copies in the form of hand-stamped/hand-packaged limited editions. The albums are also available here as a free download from the artist. His record label site says it specializes in "music to fall asleep to" - also great for reading or studying.

I'm keeping this 'Music for Your Studio' thing going -because I love music and I'm amazed at the quantity (and quality) of free and legal albums out there that are worth listening to.