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Genre: Folk, Electronic, Post Rock

Canon Blue is a one man project from Nashville run by Daniel James. His style of music takes influences from folk music, indie electronic and post rock, creating a soft and soothing soundscape to listen to.

James has offered 3 releases through the Rumraket label, but only one of them is free, this being the EP Halcyon. It consists of 4 solid tracks, my favourites being Ennui and Kingfisher Sweet. The other two releases, an album by the name of Colonies and a single called Odds & Ends are available for purchase from the label.

Halcyon is available for free download by following this link.

Genre: Folk

Well, this was a surprising find. Two albums of acoustic medieval folk music played either on a guitar or on a mandolin and sung in French.

If this is your type of music, you’ll be pleased to know that the music has excellent production and is of a certain quality, both sound-wise and artistically.

12 Petits Chants starts off immediately with La Marchande de Foie and from then on, it’s simple, calming folk music. One particular striking is Des Vacances Comme Ca, which has a certain jazzy feeling to it. Petitjean’s voice also fits in well to this type of music.

Jean Qui Rêve is an instrumental take on medieval folk, and after listening to the opening track, Theme de Combat, you really cannot disagree with me. It actually does sound like a medieval duel is about to take place. Other highly recommended tracks include Theme de la Taverne and Reveil des Guerriers.

Both albums may be downloaded from Jamendo by clicking on the links below.

12 Petits Chants

Jean Qui Rêve

Genre: Folk, Acoustic, Ambient

Julia Kotowski has released a relaxing album called Hydrophobia. She plays all the instruments featured on this album and sings too. Spending hours recording in her parents’ living room using nothing but a USB microphone and a laptop, simplicity and calmness really shines.

This happens to be Entertainment for the Braindead’s second album. Her first album, Hypersomnia. This has also been released for free; however the download link has ceased to exist.

Tracks of note include Colours, Resolutions and Mi Corazon.

The album may be downloaded from the Internet Archives as VBR mp3s from here.

Genre: New Age, Electronic, Folk

The name of the artist, SaReGaMa, corresponds to the first 4 notes of the standard octave in Indian classical music. This should be a preparation in what their music entails.

SaReGaMa have over 12 releases on Jamendo, but I chose to feature The 4 Elements. As the album title suggests, 4 of the songs feature the classical elements in some way. Earth is a steady song with improvisations made on a framework of a few notes. Fire invokes the image of a rising, calming fire while Air is a light song, aptly subtitled “Kalimba Solo”. Water is a much more electronic song with hints of trance.

The album may be downloaded from here in mp3s of various bitrates, from 256kbps and upwards.

Genre: Folk, Electronic, New Age

This eclectic album is a mixture of Asturian folk music and electronic music, giving it a very new age feel. Instruments such as bagpipes and violins feature over the soundscapes created by this Spanish group. Tracks of note include Lliendes, Valsiau De San Andrés and Elexía.

This album may be downloaded from Jamendo at the bitrate of 192kps MP3.

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