Burgmüller by Esther Garcia

This little recording is dear to us here at Rancho Oddio. We hear it every single day of the year. This is because we have set it for various alarms throughout the day. The house favorite is "L'Hirondelle," as it is the breakfast alarm that brings us together for a meal watching busy wildlife outside the patio, a truly happy start to the day.

Apart from our personal reasons for loving this beautiful album, there is the outstanding performance by Esther Garcia. She breathes life into these Burgmüller compositions which are all too often performed mechanically. There is a delicacy to her performance offering a lovely, liquid flow to the pieces.

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MUSIC COPYRIGHTS: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
IMAGE: album cover
NATIONALITY: Euro W: Spain: Madrid
CLASSIFICATIONS: Classical; Piano; Romantic Era
COMPOSERS: Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
LANGUAGE: (Instrumental)
FILED UNDER: Digital: Art: Historical: Euro Common

CosmoSoul Delivers Soul from Spain

Sunrise was the debut album of CosmoSoul with all the lyrics written and sung by Alana Sinkëy, whose sweet soul voice is sure to bring you a smile. In fact, when there are multiple layers of Alana's voice, such as in the song "Sunny Days," it is hard not to smile.

A truly international act, the five members of CosmoSoul come from three continents and five different continents.

The album was originally hosted on Jamendo and has since been reissued on Bandcamp. You can still get either version, and if you get it at Bandcamp, you can support band with a purchase.

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MUSIC COPYRIGHTS: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
IMAGE: original and reissue album covers; photographs by Gianfranco Tripodo; art design 2011 edition by Javier Castro and 2012 edition by Belén Chavarri.
NATIONALITY: Euro W: Spain: Madrid
CLASSIFICATIONS: Soul; Funk; Fusion; Rhythm and Blues; Dance
LANGUAGE: English; Portuguese, Spanish
FILED UNDER: Digital: Popular Class: Rhythm And Blues: Contemporary

Flamenco + Hip Hop Beats = Gnawledge

Check 1-2. Check check. Are you receiving? So guess who has finally gained access to Blogio Oddio? Who else thinks 2.5 years is more than enough time for a 7.5 hour collection of Mozart works as the latest news?

How about something new for your ears? Taking a wild guess that your music selections are thin in your FLAMENCO HIP HOP catalog, right? Well then, let's remedy that. Gnawledge is a project in Granada, Spain that began with a music grant, a music researcher, and a hip hop producer. They pulled in the skills of many musicians and samples of classics across the genres. Gnawledge has since grown into a larger project including a record label.

Their album Granada Doaba begins with some lovely Spanish guitar. By track two, the beats appear, and as the album progresses you will be swept up in a swirling cloud of Spanish, Arab, classic rhythm and blues, hip hop, and samples. I even heard the Godfather of Soul in there.

This is a fun and mostly instrumental trip across the world, across genres, and across time. You can hear that a great deal of effort was invested by these musicians and producers to bring this gem to the world.

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MUSIC LICENSE: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
NATIONALITY: Granada, Spain
CLASSIFICATIONS: Dance; Flamenco; Hip Hop; Latin; Sampling
FILED UNDER: Digital: Popular Music: Beats: Traditional

MrJuan

mrjuan is also known as Juan Naveira, Juan of the Juanitos, and Miss Emma's dad. In these parts he is mostly known as the life of the party! Playing his music is an instant party. The proof is in King Kong Man!

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license: Creative CommonsAttribution 3.0 France License

Swinging in Spain

Two new albums of blends of swing, ska, rock, and AfroCuban pop from Spain on the WFMU Free Music Archive!

Click covers to enjoy whole albums. Click players to enjoy a taste.


licenses: Eterno Domingo by Los Sundayers and Donde las Toman las Dan by Oferta Especial are both licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licenses.

Flamenco Warmth from Andalusia

The group El Niño del Parking brings you the sound of the ancient city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia in southwestern Spain between the sea and the mountains. In addition to Spanish guitars, Latin rhythms, and the clapping of flamenco, this brings you the experience of the fluid poetry of the Castilian tongue, festivals, palm trees, celebrated vineyards, sunshine, Mediterranean warmth. Enjoy an entire free album to download or play at the WFMU Free Music Archive.

Photo: Alcázar de Jerez de la Frontera by El Pantera [Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license]

An Overdue Dozen

Here you have a new set of 12 free and legal collections and CDs to get you through the work week! Eat up and be sure to spread the love by supporting these artists!

Chuzausen - Happy Farm winner at Oddio house, fun and light, "Freaky Gamebased Soundscape from Spain" (myspace) [electro, chip, breakbeat]	Swirlies members of Boston's dream pop legends share almost a dozen of their out-of-print LP and 7" releases [indie, rock, pop, lo-fi,shoegaze]	General Fuzz "electronic music with the emphasis on music... not so much dance music as music to zone out to... 'tagged it as lush melodic instrumental'" [electro]
MasterToaster an established netlabel in Spain promoting both Spanish and international acts in genres across the board [varied!]	Flattstreet young Canadian 6-piece funk-rock ensemble who learned chops performing and touring with the Hamilton All-Star Jazz band [funk, rock, jazz]	Ektoplazm Psychedelic Trance check out the free music section for goa and psy trance releases and compilations [goa, trance, psychedelic]
Mr. Moods In Love We Trust... And We Hate CD of "downtempo magic and hip-hop wizardy" released through Dirtybird Rexx netlabel [downtempo]	Spectacular Fantastic enjoy the albums shared by this Cincinnati, Ohio indie 3-piece who sound like psych Beach Boys and a western Beck [rock, pop]	JT Bruce his free albums are in the vein of progressive metal bands like Dream Theater, the next generation after acts like Goblin [prog, metal, rock, guitar]
Protest Records "for musicians, poets and artists to express love + liberty in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war" [rock, pop, folk]	MyOuterSpace "ongoing project that invites musicians from all over planet Earth participate" [electro, space]	Raging Family - Space Tragedy the RF brothers released another sweet one, "an epic saga set in the 6th dimension of outer space... official sequel to Black Holes" [pop, electro]

several years' worth more here

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