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Monk Turner's "Love Story" - a fascinating concept album

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Monk Turner’s Love Story is a fascinating concept album. It is a tale of romance that uses the Buddhist Tale of The Ten Bulls as its structure. Each track corresponds to the 10 parts of the classic Buddhist analogy so it will enhance your enjoyment of the album by first reading the tale. However Monk’s songs are entertaining enough on their own.

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Voodoo Economics - "if : then :: iminami"

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Philadelphia’s Voodoo Economics is a hard act to classify. There are traces of hip-hop, trip-hop, techno, industrial and even goth throughout the tracks on their album titled If: Then:: Iminami. Yet no one genre dominates. In various reviews, the word ‘quirky’ comes up often. The band’s fondness for fragmented riffs and odd time signatures certainly sounds quirky. While this may keep them off the commercial radar there is still plenty of intelligent music from this very professional sounding band for music lovers to admire.

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The Kyoto Connection - two Creative Commons albums

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The Kyoto Connection plays chilled out electro-pop mixed with a generous amount of Japanese sounds. Their 2008 release titled The Kyoto Connection II is now free and online. While the Japanese influence was not quite as dominant as I expected it to be, their music is still full of unexpected surprises in the engaging electronic arrangements. I find “Painting With Lights” especially intriguing for its trip-hop vocals and Oriental background drones. “Voyage I - Let The Light In” is the kind of pretty new age track that is both delightful and soothing while “The Prisoner” has a dance-pop quality that is infectious.

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Hungry Lucy's two great Creative Commons albums

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Last year I featured Hungry Lucy’s 2006 release Before We Stand—-We Crawl. While this appeared to have been an experiment with Creative Commons licensing, the band found the experience enlightening and has released a video (below) to explain why they endorse CC. It is great to see a really creative group like Hungry Lucy, especially one that is celebrating 10 years of existence, recognize the benefits of this form of licensing and distribution. Since then the band has made the decision to release other albums that are under their control through a creative commons license.

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