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WHAT'S A PLEONASM?

Pleonasm is new FREE! 'net label of, as it's proprietor C.Cummings says, "outsidery lo-fi obscure no-genre" and, yup,

It may be unseemly, since I'm involved in a couple of projects there, but I feel compelled to direct my public's attention to Pleonasm, a free online record label located at www.pleonasmmusic.org. The label focuses on idiosyncratic DIY music, juvenalia, found sounds, and other quirky marginal genres. Although the imprint has existed for a year or so, label svengali Christian Cummings has recently engaged in a flurry of activity, offering new full length recordings by luminaries like Canadian text-sound poet bill bissett, multimedia artist Jeffrey Vallance, and pagan Life Metal band Flugeldar!, as well as a full schedule of forthcoming releases so stay tuned.

If this wasn't remarkable enough, Cummings - inspired by Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music - has issued the first three volumes in the Human Music Anthology, culled from internet sources and organized into thematic clusters. Volume one is Tongues, focusing on glossolalia in a number of surprising manifetations; Vol 2 is a grab bag of unclassifiable amateur enthusiasms ("Song About Drinking Robitussin"; "Aspergers Girl") entitled Left Fieldists. But it isVolume 3: Extra Credit Songs that most spectacularly fulfills the potential of this Post-McLuhan anthropological foray. 

This collection features the musical expressions of some very old, post labidinal people. Volume four of the Human Music Anthology is called Antediluvian Moderns. Did you know the human brain actually starts to ferment after its 80th year? Click Here to Download.                                 

Volume 3 of the Human Music Anthology is called Extra Credit Songs… When the difference between passing and failing is a song. Download this collection of high-stakes-highschool song writing today! Click Me!

Left Fieldists are musical dabblers. The guy who ever wrote one song… about the narcotic effects of Robitussin. Inspirational anthem written for a small-town public access show intro. Down Syndrome man reads a poem about his nieces breasts. The kid who stole older brother’s four track recorder to try his hand at disco song writing. The fellow who wrote sultry R&B style fake-jingles for fast food chains. Using the art of song to overcome social deficits associated with Asbergers Syndrome. Volume 2 of the Human Music Anthology is titled Left Fieldists. Click Here to Download this collection of one-off wonders!

In the spirit of Harry Smith's American Folk Anthology, PLEONASM brings to you Volume 1 of the Human Music Anthology. Human Music Anthology catalogs those finer moments of contemporary Human musical expression and packages them into a series of convenient Free-For-Download "albums". Mined from the vast library stacks of the Internet and organized into micro-genres, Human Music Anthology attempts to paint the picture of a landscape normally found beyond the borders of Your musical canvas.

Volume 1 is called Tongues. Whether speaking in the tongue of angels or channeling Aliens by the vibration of Ashtar Command, Tonguesfocuses on music made under the influence of higher entities. What do smooth jazz and Peruvian pan flute sound like when accompanied by angelic crooners? Where can one hear channeled prophetic acoustic apocalyptic metal? Does tongues music cure heartburn? Download Human Music AnthologyVol.1 and find out! HERE!!!