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jason on 04/22/2011 at 01:15AM
Albert Beger Frees 'Big Mother' for Earth Day
The Turkish-born, Tel Aviv-based saxophonist Albert Beger has a personal message for all of us this Earth Day, posted in-full on his website earthday.albertbeger.com.
in honor of Earth Day, he is making the The New Albert Beger Quartet's 2008 album Big Mother available for free download under a Creative Commons Music Sharing license.
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"Big Mother is an album created out of great pain. Big Mother is a celebration of love of this planet and a cry for help to raise awareness, to wake up, and today, in honor of Earth Day 2011, I'm giving it away for free. Music is the best way I can convey a message. I could go on and on about the importance of the subject, but no words I’ll write could replace the essence of the message I’m trying to make about this subject, and therefore I believe that giving my album for free could do a much better and accurate job. I truly hope this record will touch you, move you and will bring you to action." |
While researching this post I drew an exciting global news: Albert Beger will be performing with the incredible French double bass player Joëlle Léandre at Levontin7 on May 17th. You can hear a few performances from the renowned Tel Aviv venue on the FMA here, as well as a performance from Joëlle Léandre solo at Brooklyn's ISSUE Project Room, and more selections from the great Albert Beger.
Since Free Music Archive reaches all over the world, I'm wondering: How will you spend your Earth Day?
nytuan on 04/12/2011 at 08:47AM
Enjoy Trees!
This is the title of Projekt Karpaty Magiczne / Magic Carpathians Project's newest album. In November 2010 we've got a phone call from Polish Greenpeace headquarters - they were asking whether we'd be interested in cooperation. The idea was simple yet captivating - to record a special album that would be a gift to many wonderful people who engaged in the campaign to protect one of the oldest European forests, Białowieża Forest (Puszcza Białowieska). Hence "the gift" got two meanings: literal (the album has never been available in commercial circuit) and metaphorical (while recording we were thinking with sincere gratefulness of people who got involved in campaigning and also how much inspiration we've been gaining from Nature through entire lifespan). This is why we mobilized the whole potential of our pop sensibilities, in the best meaning of the word - when I'm saying "pop" I mean all the tunes and melodies that made me cry or caused goosebumps on my skin. In other words, it might be the most easy listening Magic Carpathians Project's album to date and purposedly. We just wanted to offer the most pleasurable, enjoyable and heart-warming experience we could afford.
More on the campaign to save the primal forest in the article from British The Guardian.
