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I think that it is safe to say that the pick for today is the oldest CC365 track so far. It’s from a wax cylinder released in 1918 and features the Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra playing Aloha Land. Dreaming of beaches, the surf, and warm weather is perfect with this music and maybe it will help you relax on what is a holiday weekend for many people. It’s part of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project of the Department of Special Collections of the Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project has over 6000 cylinders digitized and available for listening and it’s all licensed under Creative Commons licenses. You can search through the collection or listen to Cylinder Radio to hear collections of recordings organized around a theme. Aloha!

Wakiki Hawaiian Orchestra - Aloha Land

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It’s Canada Day in Canada (oddly enough) today, so I figured that we should feature a Canadian recording such as Giant Lizards from The Jeff Coll Five. Jeff (who would be 20% of the group) is originally from Prince Edward Island where Canada came into being 139 years ago and the band formed three years ago. But that’s not why we’re listening to an upbeat reflection on our mediated “culture of fear”. We listen because it’s great music that is new to the Commons.
A recent convert to the Creative Commons cause, Jeff is a filmmaker based in Halifax who has also shot a music video for Giant Lizards. You can listen and download all of The Jeff Coll Five’s songs from the 2003 album Mordecai on the Windom Earle site music section. The Jeff Coll Five play from time and time and may be creating some new music soon.

The Jeff Coll Five on MySpace

The Jeff Coll Five - Giant Lizards

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The Brooklyn-based keyboard trio Au Revoir Simone create beautiful harmonies that lift your spirits and dance in your head for days. Au Revoir Simone members Erika Forster, Annie Hart, and Heather D’Angelo are wrapping up a tour with We Are Scientists and The Double so check them out if you are in New York (tonight) or Northampton on July 1 or Boston on July 2. They are supporters of the Creative Commons project and Annie has recorded a podcasting promo. While I could say that it was difficult to choose a song from their debut CD Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation (which is lovingly silkscreened), I would be lying because I kept coming back to Through the Backyards which has been in constant rotation on my iPod. It has grown on me and I hope that it will grow on you and provide you with assurance, comfort, and maybe even salvation.

www.aurevoirsimone.com

Au Revoir Simone - Through the Backyards

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It was hard to choose which of Teru’s remixes to post. He is a huge CC advocate and producer, posting excellent and well respected music to ccMixter on a very regular basis. Both Biotic and I (Subsystem7) are huge fans, and Teru is played often on Black Sweater White Cat. This remix was played by Biotic on our May 6, 2006 show.

I thought “My Name is teru and I’ll be Your Tour Guide Today” was a perfect choice for cc365 Day 179 (I hope you agree). It is a “journey through ccMixter.” Kind of a metaphor for Teru himself, both a super lover of music and a creator. I think that this is one of the most wonderful aspects of ccMixter and the Creative Commons scene is that the boundaries between the musicians, creators, and patrons are so intentionally blurred. It is an enthusiastic, driven, open, and experimental group seeking the new, recycling and reshaping the not so new, and honoring the past with super fresh materials and super fresh attitude.

Teru will also be taking part in a round of posting here on cc365.org in a few weeks.

More here: http://ccmixter.org/media/people/teru

and here: terumusic.blogspot.com

Teru - My Name is teru and I’ll be Your Tour Guide Today

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Ballade Des Dames Du Temps is a cool song from The Unnecessary Revolution’s “2nd of 3 e.p.” on birdsong.co.il . Birdsong specializes in home recordings and is rich with original material. On Day 13 Grant played “This Feeling” from “Her Highness” from one of my favorite Birdsong releases.

I hope you enjoy. This is definitely off of the beaten track both in its style and exposure.

The universe is not a perfect place. A saddening and irreversible fact. The Unnecessary Revolution claims not to care. The Unnecessary Revolution tried for seven years not to be defined, and not to write communicates or web sites. As you can see things simmered down. Now we are nice.

The Unnecessary Revolution’s site:
http://revolution.corky.net

The Record Label (15 releases strong and growing):
http://birdsong.co.il

…and if you were wondering where Roy Chicky Arad was these days, he just released “Yedidim Tovim” also on Birdsong.

The Unnecessary Revolution - ballade des dames du temps jadis

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I’d like to say I’m not totally shocked but, I can’t. Microsoft has teamed with Creative Commons to release a CC plug in for the MS Office suite.

The Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office, is a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licenses to works created in popular Microsoft Office applications. Users can point, click and attach a Creative Commons license to their work without understanding the specifics of marking up a machine readable license.

What a great idea. This needs to be more readily available in other applications (Acid Pro, Audacity, etc.. would be a great start)

The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to easily select Creative Commons licenses from directly within the application they are working in.

[via Creative Commons]

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