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Love, Calvin — A Short Trip to Oblivion

The final recordings of Love,Calvin from 2003 are now online… http://www.lovecalvin.com/oblivion.html

monopoli — Other People

Other People is the 2009 album by Amsterdam artist monopoli, created in February in conjunction with rpmchallenge.com activities. While you might anticipate that an album created in one month might sound a bit rushed or incomplete,  you would be very wrong in this case. monopoli’s style takes nods from bands like Squeeze, XTC, Crowded House, etc. The arrangements are complex and full of progressive...

Ben OThman — Lounge Cafè Tunis “Sahria”

German artist Ben OThman’s music is tagged as lounge oriental chill eastern middle ambient chillout tunisia downtempo electronic. Lounge Café’s 10 tracks are a masterfully executed blend of these styles to envelope your private atmosphere. DOWNLOAD AT jamendo.com

La Olla Express — Panic

La Olla Express, from Spain, combines a frantic collection of styles — ska, punk, reggae, pop, jam, latin, and fusion — and makes a party with a social agenda. This is powerful stuff, sizzling emotion and highly recommended. Download @ jamendo.com   

Dadan — Wind in my life

Near as I can tell in babelfish Italian-to-English, Dadan Italian artist Dadan describes this album as taking simple music structures as building blocks to form more complicated pieces. And that describes these pieces well. The music is synth pop and Dadan takes a simple chord pattern and proceeds to build a variety of timbres and other simple arpeggio patterns around it. The result is light and breezy,...

Sister Savage – Mischief Bound

This 2009 album by Sister Savage displays a lot of faces, or maybe a lot of masques as well. The “bored housewife” has a playful approach but is also not afraid to bare deeper feelings, or at least go on searching for them. The music here ranges from closet acoustic songwriter songs to avant classical and Savage is backed by several different artists who appear regularly on Internet musician...

The City Skyscape — self titled CD Review

Christopher Mongillo is a 23-year-old multi-instrumentalist from Hartford, CT. His bio lists his musical influences as The Postal Service, Depeche Mode and vocal influences as Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Placebo’s Brian Molko and Brandon Flowers of The Killers. City Skyscape’s debut will find fans of Depeche Mode warming to Mongillo’s outstanding, soaring vocals and...