Category: Free Music

Another great find from Free Albums Galore. Greg Osby is an alto saxophonist who need little introduction to jazz fans. He has a style that is comfortable in either mainstream or avant-garde jazz. He has played with jazz greats like Andrew Hill, Herbie Hancock, and Steve Coleman. His own recordings reveal a lighting fast ease…

Classical Connection has a few more rare albums for download. Carl Orff – Orff-Schulwerk Volume 1 Various – Unknown Public 8: Sensuality, Essence & Nonsense

Quite a bit of new material found by Free Albums Galore: Marco Lucchi – I found an – Insoluble – Indefinite Ear Marco Lucchi – Radure 3: Oltreumano Marco Lucchi – Tantra à L’usage Des Anges Explosions In The Sky – The Rescue Bartok – 10 Easy Piano Pieces The Unnecessary Revolution – 1st of…

Destination Out‘s recent featured downloads include Sam Rivers, Julian Priester and Don Cherry.

Free Albums Galore offer links to a bunch of new (and free) stuff. Satie – Pianoless Vexations Genre: Classical, Avant-Garde, Improvisation While most of the offerings on Free Albums Galore are complete albums, I will often present a lengthy single work, usually in the realm of classical music or modern compositions. Erik Satie’s Pianoless Vexations…

Classical Connection has posted new downloads of rare OOP classical recordings. Ake Hodell – Purgatory / Electric Buddha This extremely rare 1972 disc from multiple-discipline artist Ake Hodell contains four of his Luc Ferrari-esque electro-acoustic compositions. Enjoy. Michael Levinas – Les Rires Du Gilles, etc. This 1989 Michael Levinas album contains several of his compositions.…

Destination Out is offering free downloads of rare tracks from Muhal Richard Abrams and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Free Albums Galore has dug up two interesting free downloads: Genre: Other, Avant-Garde, Improvisation Alfredo Costa Monteiro provides two unusual online albums of a highly experimental nature. The recordings uses common non-musical items to create the music. No other effects, electronic or otherwise, are used. Rubber Music is music created entirely by rubber bands. This…

Classical Connection has posted a few MP3 downloads of Guillermo Gregorio albums.

Bivouac is another avant netlabel, with the twist that all of their music is distributed via P2P sharing. Some of their artists will be performing tonight. Surf on over for details.

Free Albums Galore has the scoop on five free albums of outside Euro-jazz. Alto and soprano saxophonist Etienne Brunet has been a fixture in the European free jazz movement for quite a while. Influenced strongly by jazz great Steve Lacy, he plays an avant-garde jazz that is also mindful of contempory music figures such as…

Classical Connection is a relatively new MP3 blog doing what the Avant Garde Project is doing, sort of – providing MP3s of out of print recordings. Here the emphasis is not so much on the extreme, but this is still a wondeful resource.

Darkwinter is one of many netlabels out there. This one focuses on dark ambient and electroacoustic music. All albums are free to download. After listening to a few, I’d recommend the Seetyca and Adaptcore releases.

A rare electroacoustic set of recordings from the 60’s is now free to download: In 1970, Phillips released a 4 record box set of electronic music called Electronic Panorama. The idea was to showcase modern electronic music from four cities known to be centers of this art form. The cities are Utrecht, Warsaw. Tokyo, and…

Another promising post from Free Albums Galore, this one an EP of electroacoustic music. Sable EP is undeniably a difficult listen. It starts out aggressively and is relenting, only briefly letting the listener relax before the next onslaught. The amazing thing about this “electroacoustic” improvisational work is that it is primarily acoustic with white noise…

More free albums from Free Albums Galore: Satie – Pièces pour Guitare Genre: Classical Here’s another excellent, rare, and out-of print album made available on the incomparable Ubuweb. Pieces Pour Guitare gives us compositions by Erik Satie. The pieces are transcribed and played by classical guitarist Pierre Laniau. These piano works translates well to the…

Like Free Albums Galore, Reloda offers links to a vast array of free music on the web. Definitely check out what they have under jazz.

Guitarist Hunter has posted three albums of his music that can be downloaded for free.

James Beaudreau of One Final Note and Outer Music Diary fame has released an album, which you can download a few tracks of from his site.