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hi! teru here. I’ll be here from July 7th to 13th. I’m not the best writer but I can dance just as good as I walk. I hope you enjoy the music this week. : )

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Musetta is Milan based duo, Matteo Curcio (producer) and Marinella Mastrosimone (lead vocals). Together they make really stylish downtempo music that has both a relaxing lounge quality as well as a touch of cinematic tension. Full previews are available at Musetta.co.uk . I highly recommend listening to more than this one track. Their upcoming self-release album will be great.

Ophelia’s Song is a “Laid back underground jazz club style track, beautiful sultry female vocals sit nicely over brushed drums and smooth bass to produce a rounded 1930s or graphic novel romance scene soundtrack. ”

Musetta - Ophelia’s Song

Musetta has also made their source tracks available at ccMixter for remixing. Which makes them heroes to me.

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Just a quick post to let folks know that I (Biotic) interviewed Grant on Black Sweater, White Cat this past Saturday. Grant was a real sport taking my call after he came back in from watching Canada Day fireworks. We cover a lot of ground and, as usual, Grant is eloquent on the subject of Creative Commons music. The program with the interview included is online. Come, listen and find out a little something about the man who started this whole CC365 scene, Grant Robertson.

Oh, and the music isn’t too shabby either, if I say so myself…

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The final pick of my first week of being part of the CC:365 team is a special one as it’s one of my favourite songs and a Creative Commons debut as well. Shotgun & Jaybird originally formed in the Yukon when Dick Morello and Shotgun Jimmie decided that they didn’t want to be janitors and wanted to be rock musicians. They lived in a wonderful car called “The Road King” while they toured and one day the car crashed near Woodstock, New Brunswick and they took a bus to Sackville, New Brunswick and settled there. While playing in St. Andrews, Paul Henderson was won in a poker game and he became their drummer. Then they recorded the EP There Are Days and Then There Are Days (the fifth release from S&J) with their friend Julie Doiron with W. L. Altman on trombone. It’s a beautiful collection of songs on a shiny compact disc. The EP is released on Sappy Records and they’re organizing the Sappy Records Festival, which is going to be the musical event of the Summer with shows on August 4, 5 and 6 featuring S&J as well as Old Man Luedecke, Al Tuck, Julie Doiron, Windom Earle, and a one-time reunion of Eric’s Trip to name some of the artists performing. Marquee Glass is my favourite Shotgun & Jaybird song with an emotional honesty and almost epic quality. You listen and tell me that this isn’t a song that perfectly balances music, lyrics and tone.

Shotgun & Jaybird Site

Illustrated Bio of Shotgun & Jaybird

Shotgun & Jaybird - Marquee Glass

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I’m at a party talking with someone about Creative Commons licensing (doesn’t everyone?) and he says that he’s been interested in it for a while, but wasn’t sure how to get started. I figured that being featured on CC:365 would be a good way to start, so the second CC premiere from that party (the other was Giant Lizards) is Windom Earle with I Saw The Way You Looked at Me from the 2004 release, The Things I Do For Girls. Windom Earle is built around Stephan MacLeod with Greg Boone and Matt Packman. They have a great synthesizer-based sound that reminds me of the 1980s and it has beats that make it possible to dance as people do when Windom Earle perform. Sometimes people such as Stephan get hurt and you can see the pictures of how Stephan broke his wrist. Windom Earle is now on a gruelling cross-Canada tour with Sharp Like Knives, which conveniently shares two band members with Windom Earle. They are in Winnipeg tomorrow night, then Saskatoon on July 9th, Calgary on the 11th and in Vancouver on the 14th and then they head back east playing all along the way to end up at home in Halifax on August 6th. If you’re in Canada in the next few weeks, you’ll probably be close to them, so check them out.

Windom Earle Official Site

Windom Earle - I Saw The Way You Looked At Me

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Happy Independence Day to all of those readers who are of the American persuasion. It seems appropriate to have someone from the heart of America for today, so that’s what we’ll do. mr_melvis was involved with the Comfort Stand netlabel that is now an archive of surprising and unique music. On the first release from the label, Two Zombies Later, mr_melvis has a track on the second volume called A Walk Through The Powerhouse which is an infectious and somewhat industrious track that should have you tapping your toes and thinking of an old cartoon. mr_melvis has also produced a mature Comfort Stand release called Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka which allowed artists to respond to the phrase in ways that seemed appropriate to them. A mysterious sonic presence, mr_melvis apparently is an IT guy during the day, plays in bars at night and for fun, he creates things in a home studio which could be somewhere in Ohio.

mr_melvis on Comfort Stand Recordings

mr_melvis - A Walk Through The Powerhouse

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Big Al has a thing for fezzes and he plays a mean ukelele as well. I found Big Al Davies not originally through his music, but his photos online via a friend. I listened, enjoyed and now you can enjoy too. Sail Away With Me was written and recorded on the same day in June 2005 and will encourage you to hop in a boat and sail away. It also is Big Al’s Creative Commons debut.

Based in Wales, Big Al is working on new songs for the eagerly-anticipated Feztastic CD and someday in your travels or his, you may have a chance to meet him.

Big Al Davies on MySpace

Big Al Davies - Sail Away With Me

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