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FMAmp3 on 05/03/2012 at 11:50AM
MP3 of the Day: Miss Emma, "Une Glace au Citron"
Miss Emma lives in Chambéry, France. Her dad is Juan Naveira, creator of the band Juanitos.
When Emma wrote the lyrics to her first song, "Une Glace au Citron" ("A Lemon Ice"), she gave the page to her dad and hummed the tune for him. He played it on the guitar for her.
Within a few weeks, they put together more songs, and a full-length album. Soon they were performing small concerts and appearing in the press. The video for "Une Glace au Citron" ("A Lemon Ice") became a hit on the Internet! Well-known American DJs Ursula 100 and Martinibomb have promoted Miss Emma, and she has since developed a following in the USA.
via Kazoomzoom.com, the world's first netlabel for kids!
jason on 02/20/2012 at 02:00AM
Lessazo: 30 Musicians from France and Mali Create Art Libre Double Album
Lessazo's Soleil d'hiver is a collaboration between fifteen musicians from France and fifteen musicians from Mali. There is no shortage of voices and instruments, from guitar to kora, calabash to electric bass, horn sections to balafon, talking drum and n'goni lute.
These aren't jam sessions -- each composition is beautifully orchestrated with room to breathe and time to let the ideas play out. Over the course of the double album, a host of French and Malian folk and jazz traditions fuse with bambara rap and dub-worthy bass while field recordings mix in and out of mbox studio sessions.
The album was released in 2006 on Alter Musique. We discovered it through the French free music portal Dogmazic, who curate a selection for the FMA. Soleil d'hiver is shared under a Free Art / Art Libre license, which dates back to 2000 and precedes Creative Commons. Read the english version at artlibre.org/licence/lal/en
Lessazo was founded by Maya Diallo and Antoine Gonot, who continue to perform in France as the Lessazo Trio as well as in Mail with Lessazo Angata. Video from an intercontinental studio session after the jump:
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jason on 08/03/2011 at 04:02PM
Warped French Beats From Digital Pit
Digital Pit is the netlabel arm of the French musique libre webzine freezeec, and specializes in an array of high-quality digital beats.
FMA now hosts a handful of highlights from the label's deep Creative Commons BY-NC-ND catalog, including the French-language noire-inspired hip-hop of Mr Ascofi, the seductive downtempo jams of Mobster (check out the minimalist Björk-inspired track below), and the tripped-out smeared beat abstractions of Hiroshima make me wanna juke!
Check out Digital Pit's FMA Profile
and dig in deeper at www.digitalpit.net
jason on 11/18/2010 at 12:00AM
Mix from Dogmazic, le portail de musique libre
The French Free Music portal Dogmazic.net hosts a great range of sounds that struck many good notes to my freeform-natured ears. So I thought to open a curatorial collaboration between our sites. I received a nice response from co-founder Rico, who told me that "many of our members are also users of FMA and auditors of the excellent radio WFMU." In fact, there's already some nice overlap between our libraries -- in labels from France (LCL, Jahtari, Ego Twister) and beyond (Portugal's You Are Not Stealing Records, Yogyakarta's Yes No Wave). But that's just part of the Venn diagram.
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Rico's introductory Dogmazic mix presents 20 tracks that are completely new to the FMA. There's a natural focus on French artists, but at the same time a range of genre-fusing music from all over: the Malian/French collaboration Lessazo; psych-folk from Sharitah Manush; a John Wayne-themed lofi pop anthem from The Netherlands' De nieuwe vrolijkheid; funky downtempo fusion from Helsinksi's Northbound; glitch-hop from Bordeaux's Sushisooshamp; New Jersey's own The Fuzz close things out with "God Bless The Radio," a track originally released in 1995 that starts off by sampling an old WFMU station ID -- nice!! Mixmaster Rico writes: Dogmazic is the first libre music download manager in France. It was created in December 2004 by the Musique libre ! non-profit based in Bordeaux. |
All of these artists have more free music to offer on Dogmazic and beyond -- you'll find links and info on their FMA artist profiles. Thanks to Rico for sharing his great taste with us and thanks to the artists for sharing their music with the world, encouraging us all to spread the good word!
jason on 07/12/2010 at 01:05PM
LCL launches Creative Commons soundbank w/ composition contest
The French electro/dub label LCL (LibreCommeLair) is holding a composition contest to celebrate the launch of their Creative Commons-licensed soundbank.
The soundbank, aka "La boite a sons", is chock full of samples, loops and acapellas hand-crafted by the label's talented artists & collaborators. French dub-masters like Volfoniq, Arrogalla (of the Nootempo collective out of Sardinia, Italy), Disrupt (founder of Jahtari the 8bit dub netlabel), Jambassa, Taiwanese hip-hop group Kou Chou Ching, Peak and Vinlette. The sample packs include "bits of folkloric isntruments, reggae a cappella from Spain, hiphop a cappella from Taiwan, synth loops, drum loops and kits, lo-fi dub, electronics, organ slices..."
You can check out the sample packs here, hosted by ccMixter, along with the contest rules and info about each artist who has contributed to the soundbank thus far.
Highlights from the composition contest will be featured here at the Free Music Archive, and in a net release on LCL. More info after the jump, and you can enjoy some sounds from LCL's FMA collection below
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